Posted on 05/10/2011 1:14:58 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg
But what are they going to do with the stadium in Minneapolis that has the collapsable roof?
Just looking after those who look after us, dear. :)
Don’t know. The Metrodome holds many events that are non-football related and it’s one place to play baseball, albeit badly, before the snow melts here.
Were it me, I’d have renovated the Dome and ripped off the roof as the cheapest solution.
Mind yourself. There are still people here who will dispute that.
We hold them every year. We just haven’t played in the stupid game lately.
When Babe Ruth pointed toward the center field bleachers of Wrigley Field in the 1932 field,before sending the ball to the same place, some naïve people thought a legend was born. Turns out it was just another chapter in the story of creeping socialism.
Besides the Saints and the Colts, has any other domed team won the Superbowl? Not that I can think of.
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Of course this shows that it can be done.
I don’t buy the argument that need to go back to outdoor sports to win in Minnesota. We have such crappy weather, why don’t we compromise and have a retractable roof? I know it costs alot, but who wants to go to a football game like the Vikings did in TCF stadium last year? The players and fans deserve better than playing outside in extreme weather conditions. Even the Twins had to cringe this spring when games were postponed due to cold weather in their outdoor stadium. Let’s join the 21st century and play in controlled conditions where the weather does not favor one team over the other. Winning teams should win because they are good, not because weather conditions favor the team that is used to playing in it.
Did tax payers buy him his bat?
Not to mention millions upon millions of tax paying fans that may never set foot in the stadium, but who's lives are measurably enhanced by it's presence; the way it's been for what, 50 years now? If only the tax payer could have back all the money spent on Met Stadium and the Dome, then Minnesota would be a real place with real traditions and history, not those phony kind. Kirby who?
And who gets stuck paying the huge bill for this gift to the NFL?
I say all such projects that will mandate the public play for it - that they be limited to voluntary contributions - that no taxpayer should be forced to pay a single penny for the facility. Further - if the facility cannot eventually pay the public back for the cost to build- through fees/ticket sales/etc. - then it has no business being built.
I don’t buy the whole “tourism” and “related windfall” that supposedly comes from these “deals”... particularly when team owners play blackmail games to get new stadiums built.
No. Just, for the most part, the stadiums he played in.
You impugn the memory of the Babe by implying he would not have played but for government subsidies (which did not exist in those days BTW).
Jesse Ventura did one smart thing. He started a voluntary fund for a stadium for people to contribute to. He put in the first thousand bucks. That turned out to be the last thousand bucks too. All these big talking sports fans got real quiet when ask to put their own money where their very big mouths are.
The Rams were the first dome team to win a Super Bowl.
I think that is false. Prove that old Yankee stadium was paid for with public money.
That is exactly the point - Can’t drive around there without killing your vehicle with potholes, they kind of are known for “bridge troubles” (and their infrastructure is no better than anyone else’s) - the state and city cannot pay their current obligations... so lets spend another $1.2 billion on a new stadium to appease a greedy jerk of a team owner. Yeah... makes sense. When you have a pretty new showpiece stadium, but you don’t have decent roads and bridges to GET THERE, it kind of looses its appeal...don’tcha think?
All these liberal turd-knockers who want the taxpayers to fund all these boondoggles like to push how these projects “improve quality of life”... you mean like the bad roads and crumbling infrastructure in general actually IMPROVE ‘quality of life’?
Lets be blunt. You are a member of a special interest group clambering for the government teat. You have your rationalizations just like any other special interest group. And just like any other special interest group when you are confronted about your greed you get indignant and self righteous.
You are part of the problem.
OK. I’m sorry.
Yes. Just like Bud Grant was, and Norm Van Brocklin before him.
Not all of choices faced by local and state governments fit into an ideological straight jacket. You can argue the country, with all its states, cities and towns would have been better off over the last century without its tax payer subsidized pro sports stadium tradition, based on some narrow and ill applied ideological prism view that must ignore all the rich and storied history. But doing so simply reveals the obtuse nature of your thought process.
Gary Anderson’s botched field goal would have been successful outside?
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