So now they are going to remodel the Delta Center for the new hockey team instead of building a new arena.
On one hand that is great news. Some of these politicians and millionaire-billionaire sports franchise owners get drunk on their own ideas of spending our tax dollars on crap we don't need. Remodel the Delta Center? yeah, I can see that and justify that.
Build a new arena? nah, c'mon. The Great Salt Lake is one or two bad years of snowpack away from disappearing and you want to spend your energy on dreaming of new sports arenas. Wake up!
Now, on the other hand, I am kind of bummed. I was hoping with all this talk of building new arenas, (don't forget they are still trying to woo a new Major League Baseball team to Utah), I could present a plan to Salt Lake City and the legislature to get a bullfight arena built to help vitalize the city.
I mean, it would be perfect.
They are talking about revitalizing the Rio Grande area and building a new train station and all, maybe even one underground. They could put a Plaza de Toros right by the train station, just like they have in Valencia Spain. It would be perfect.
I can just picture a beautiful Plaza de Toros in an old Spanish architecture style right down there by the Rio Grand train station welcoming weary travelers to our bustling city.
We could hold a Spring Fair like Sevilla does in April and have a week of bullfigths, in July just like Pamplona we could do a running of the bulls through the streets of Salt Lake City in celebration of the 24th, and in the fall as the leafs are changing color and the weather is perfect in Utah we could have a Feria de Otoño like Madrid and Zaragoza and have a week of bullfights then too. The possibilities are endless.
And if the animal rights activists get their panties all in a knot like they probably would we could make the bullfights "bloodless bullfights" like they do in California.
And these wouldn't be amateur bullfights, we would get the biggest and best matadors. Do you know the most popular bullfighter in the world right now, and has been for the past few years, is a kid from Peru? Andrés Roca Rey.
He just had a very successful performance in Sevilla on April 20th where he was carried out "la Puerta del Principe" after cutting ears from both of his bulls that day.
I mean, we could get him here, the Peruvian community would go crazy. It would be so awesome. We could tie it all together and have a huge Latin America festival with bullfights as the center piece. Sure, we'll have dances, concerts, farmer markets as part of it, but the bullfights will be the most important part.
But no, now that they have decided to be somewhat fiscally responsible and not build a new hockey arena I'm going to have to forego my dreams of having a world class Plaza de Toros in Utah.
Hmmmm..... wait a minute.
Ogden is kind of a dump, always has been. I know, I grew up there.
They could use some revitalizing down and around the train station on Wall Ave.
We could still do a running of the bulls through the streets of Ogden for the week of the 24th of July!
This has possibilities !!!
Keep your calendar clear Roca Rey, I will get you to Utah yet to fight some bulls.
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