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.
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.