We pay for these darn stadiums when idiots vote for the cities to give welfare to the team owners. That’s the problem we have in Arlington. Then the games are ridiculously over priced so that your average family can’t afford it.
They should air the game. Our taxes paid for it already.
I agree. Plus I’ve never understood the math. OK, if you have a sucky team like the Colts (THIS year!) that doesn’t sell out the stadium, you still have potentially thousands of local viewers who would watch the game on TV. Therefore you can sell advertising. That makes MONEY, right? Don’t the owners like MONEY? Don’t stations like MONEY?
Although your deductive logic is sound, its the underlying caveat that is in violation of just principles. IF the local government builds a stadium, they should require that users rent it at a market rate. I would also never build a football stadium unless I at least owned the rights to at least the name of the team to play in it.
Its better all the way around to keep the private and public separate and let the NFL do as they please with ticket sales, which currently appears to be overpricing them in the hope of getting only a higher middle-class ticket holder.
$250 per game for decent seats is not for the common folk, nor really even for people simply making $100,000 / year. I can take the family to the local baseball farm team and get great seats for the whole clan for under $50 or I can take them to an NFL game and drop $1000.