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Clear Eyes, Full Hearts and a $94 Million Texas High School Stadium
The 8,000-seat venue could be the costliest in state history.
Few towns represent the Texas ethos of Friday Night Lights — and the big money behind it — more than the Dallas exurb of Prosper.
Spectators gather at a stadium with 12,000 seats, a two-story press box, fancy digs for college scouts and a 60-foot-wide video scoreboard — a venue that cost about $50 million. These high school football games don't always fill the seats, but a local hospital chain paid $2.5 million for the stadium's naming rights anyway. It’s all for the glory of a bunch of teenagers.