The Ector County Coliseum (also known as The Jack-Shack) is a 5,131 seat multi-purpose arena in Odessa, Texas.
It is home to the Odessa Roughnecks (Indoor Football League), the Odessa Jackalopes (North American Hockey League), the Sand Hills Rodeo, and the biennial Permian Basin International Oil Show.
The Coliseum was built in 1954 and was previously the home of the original Odessa Jackalopes team. The Coliseum was the oldest arena still being used for CHL games for the until the Fort Wayne Komets and their facility, the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum entered the league in 2010.
Each January the arena hosts a major rodeo, and the animals are kept in a large hall at one end of the arena. This is the same area that, before hockey games, group picnics are served to as many as 500 people.
| Preceded by first arena |
Home of the Odessa Jackalopes 2011 – present |
Succeeded by current arena |
| Preceded by first arena |
Home of the Odessa Roughnecks 2001 – 2009 |
Succeeded by last arena |
| Preceded by first arena |
Home of the West Texas Roughnecks 2010 – present |
Succeeded by current arena |
Famous quotes containing the word county:
“Don’t you know there are 200 temperance women in this county who control 200 votes. Why does a woman work for temperance? Because she’s tired of liftin’ that besotted mate of hers off the floor every Saturday night and puttin’ him on the sofa so he won’t catch cold. Tonight we’re for temperance. Help yourself to them cloves and chew them, chew them hard. We’re goin’ to that festival tonight smelling like a hot mince pie.”
—Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)