Posted on 05/03/2024 6:41:49 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
None of them are heroes, whether it be sports, music, or acting. Celebrity worship is proof of mind control on the ‘fans’. Drugs and alcohol aren’t the only addictions people have.
I have had people tell me, “I wish I could weld like you”, or, “I wish I could mechanic on cars like you”. I tell them, “There was a time I didn’t know how”.
I have former high school teammates that still spend hours at the local bar, talking about their sports memories.
PSLs have been around since the 80s. And yeah it’s a total money grab. Basically it gives you first dibs on season tickets, and in some of the stadium non-sports events.
As for why they cost billions now. Bells and whistles. These aren’t the stadiums of yesteryear. The seats are basically luxury car seats. You’ve got these massive 4K jumbotrons. Not to mention wild architecture. The concrete bowl with wooden seats is gone. They make palaces now.
Taylor Swift's hometown.
Correlation is not causation, but the Raiders leaving Oakland seems to be associated with an accelerated socioeconomic collapse there.
Getting rid of sports scholarships should be in the same bills. If the education of their future gladiator mills is so important to the pros, they should be the ones funding it.
Just do what we did growing up in the 70s...find a sandlot.
“Panem et circenses (bread and circuses)”
-Juvenal
It’s not that they can’t afford it. It’s that they so often don’t have to. Step 1 to getting rich: never pay for anything you don’t have to. As long as governments and people are willing to pay for your building your answer should be yes.
Yep, politicians using the old bread and circus concept from the Roman times to buy votes and of course line their pockets.
It’s not even just bread and circuses. Look at all the hoops they go through trying to land factories, and Amazon HQ2. They always want some high profile “win” even if it means a bunch of eminent domain, roadwork, and no property tax windows. Sports stadiums are just very high profile part of it.
Indirectly! The story I heard was that she was born somewhere else and as a little girl told daddy that she wanted to be a singer. So daddy moved the family to Hendersonville (a suburb near Nashville) as he believed Nashville had the best vocal coaches and the like for her.
How I know this: My daughter used to manage a little girl clothing store called Justice in the Nashville area. One week the manager of the Hendersonville store was going on vacation and they needed a replacement. My daughter was asked to fill in. She did. She had a COLLECTION of “Buffies” there who had never worked a day in their lives, and were only there because their parents thought it would teach them some responsibility. Anyway, these girls had went to high school with Taylor, and told stories about her to my daughter.
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Pittsburgh voted down new stadiums and they got them anyway.
I know other cities have voted them down too and the local polticians have found a way around it.
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