About time. The taxpayers have had to pay to build sports facilities and then get charged an arm and a leg and a testicle to enter.
In short, should our “heroes” get a subsidy to maintain their multi-million $$ salaries and lavish lifestyles?
I hear that in Buffalo , a lot of people are angry at the Bills new stadium situation, because the Bills are requiring people to pay a personal seat license fee, in order to be able to buy season tickets.
That seems really odd to me. You can’t just buy season tickets. You have to pay this license fee of thousands of dollars to have the privilege of buying the actual tickets.
I don’t understand why modern stadiums cost billions of dollars. Some stadiums built about 20 years ago costed hundreds of millions , but now it seems like every new stadium is over a billion.
Maybe NPR/PBS/Abortionists could take over the operation?
NFL made billions so they can build their own
If you are Los Angeles, you can let the team(s) walk until someone finally decides to pony up the building money.
If you are Jacksonville, and have no other sports teams, the team can threaten to move credibly, and the city doesn’t want to lose an NFL franchise.
If you have a dedicated fan base with more than half-a-century of team history where the city is part of the team’s identity, the bluff can be called. The Raiders can move, the Cowboys have to stay near Dallas.
Just because the owners make money, doesn’t mean they don’t want to make more. Just because a municipality/state spends money, doesn’t mean that agents don’t want to spend more if the alternative is losing an NFL team.
“The Jaguars supposedly will have a public-private deal for a massive renovation to EverBank Stadium soon; until it’s done, however, it’s not.”
The little liberal SJW that just got elected here is pushing for this, and I pray “until it’s done, however, it’s not.”
Eventually carrys the day.
To ask a city of around 1 million people to be taxed for something less than 80 thousand people will use 10 times a year is total bull$h!t
So sorry NFL owners, but the money that would have gone to building you a bigger and better stadium with larger owner suites is now needed to pay for the housing and feeding of illegal migrants.
Isn’t that amazing how long it takes for the sheeple to come along?
Think Bob Lurie. He tried to move the SF Giants after the voters voted down his new stadium. He felt the taxpayers owed him. The Giants shared Candlestick Park with the 49ers. How did Eddie Debartolo react? He called Candlestick a pigsty-struck while the iron was hot-49ers were hot too. Mayor Diane Feinstein reacted with millions of $’s in improvements.
Eventually the people come around. What’s hard to acknowledge is the leftists in SF were right. What would Trump think? Good question.
As I stated when 700 million dollars was spent to buy the Houston Texans franchise and they asked the Taxpayers to finance their stadium, what kind of business plan is that if you can’t afford to pay for the location you’re going to operate out of? Taxpayers paying for stadiums was a bad plan in the old days and a terrible plan today.
I know that college football is different. If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._stadiums_by_capacity and ignore #11 (used just once or twice per year), the top 14 stadiums will fill to capacity (85K to 107K) every home game and they're all college football stadiums.
You don't get into NFL teams until you get to the 15th largest stadium. And I wonder how many of them are filled on most home games.
So tax money for NFL stadium aren't just ethically wrong. If I'm right about their lack of use, they're also a big waste of money.
As long as the NFL promotes leftist causes, keep the taxpayer spigot closed.
Too late for my hometown it appears:
New Nissan Stadium is a domed American football stadium to be built in Nashville, Tennessee for use by the Tennessee Titans, succeeding the current Nissan Stadium beginning in 2027. The 60,000-seat stadium is projected to cost $2.1 billion, $1.26 billion of which is subsidized by the public.
Just do what we did growing up in the 70s...find a sandlot.