American Taxpayers Stuck Paying Billions to Build, Renovate NFL Stadiums

Breitbart ^ | 12/22/2022 | Warner Todd Huston

[ChicagoConservative27]

The American people are being forced to pay billions across the country to build stadiums for the NFL to play in, despite the fact that the league is worth an estimated $132 billion as a whole.

While it is difficult to put a firm price tag on the NFL, Sportico recently estimated that the average team is worth $4.14 billion, and the business and real estate holdings of the league as a whole are worth upwards of $132 billion.

[ChicagoConservative27]

What a friggin scam

[pgyanke]

I can live with the exorbitant salaries of major sports... as long as it is supported by the market. You get my tax dollars involved and I’m no longer a fan.

[dsrtsage]

All so otherwise grown unemployable thugs who got free “college educations” that many young people could use that opportunity to improve the world and would do anything to obtain, can be paid tens of millions to run and jump and throw like permanent adolescents

[Freedom56v2]

More good news.

Merry Christmas :(

[PeterPrinciple]

league as a whole are worth upwards of $132 billion.

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only if the tax subsidy is not accounted for.

[KarlInOhio]

It looks like there is nothing new here. Just a restatement of old news for get me to run Breitbart’s obstacle course of advertisements.

[GrumpyOldGuy]

I don’t even Blame the teams anymore. I blame first, the people that continue to go watch the games and pay ridiculous amounts of money, all in support of the owners and players making obscene amounts. I blame second, the politicians who sneak this crap by.

[NWFree]

How do you think they became worth so much?

Most teams are in libtard controlled cities which makes it easy to pay off the local slimeballs

[OttawaFreeper]

I follow on Facebook a page for Nashville local history and memories and many people there are not at all happy that the Titans are getting a new stadium built for them and paid by all of those lucky locals.

[nascarnation]

Nothing excites a local politician like the simulated view of the playing field in the new mega stadium from his/her freebie suite tickets.

[qaz123]

I agree and disagree.

I blame the people that continue to vote for these politicians that just sell everyone out. Often in secret deals and then make some grand announcement as of the people should be worshipping at their feet.

Disgusting that the voter is so easily duped.

[Rurudyne]

Agreed. Let the billionaires pay for their own sports palaces so millionaires can play a game.

[nascarnation]

Aren’t most pro sports tix expensed by businesses as advertising?

[dragnet2]

And the best thing we can do is ignore/do not watch their racist BS....

Those in the NFL could urinate on the American flag at half time, and a few sports geeks would still watch it.

[shadowlands1960]

I despise the NFL. I haven’t watched a game since the Cowboys took a knee. I used to watch around 3 games a week....

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well, this stadium business is nothing new. Going back at least to Walter O’Malley in the 1950s, and his efforts to get a stadium for the Brooklyn Dodgers, team owners either threaten to, or actually do, move the team to another city if they don’t get their way.

I’ve also heard many discussions over the years, among fans, about how a city “needs” professional sports, to be a truly “world class” city. Generally they mean that a city should have teams in major league baseball, NFL football, NBA basketball, and NHL hockey, to be truly a “major” city.

I know some cities have had the voters vote on bond issues and financing deals for stadiums. Politicians who give away the store should be criticized, but in some places, voters themselves wanted to fund these stadium deals.

[Dr. Sivana]

The image at the top of the article appears to be Los Angeles' new Sofi Stadium. That was a poor choice, as the stadium was built with private dollars. Los Angeles has done a lot of things wrong, but for over 20 years they denied throwing money at a stadium and eventually Stan Kroenke used private funding to buld a $4 billion stadium (L.A. might have provided infrastructure, such as roads).

Yet, despite wading in stacks of cash, the NFL continues to force American taxpayers to pay to build its team’s new stadiums or put billions of tax dollars into renovating older ones.

The NFL didn't force anybody to do anything. The team can threaten to leave if they don't get their way . . . hardly the equivalent of turning off the hot water. St. Louis still exists, and they never gave the Rams much love anyway, it's a baseball town.

[ought-six]

I am very much opposed to taxpayers footing the bill for ANYTHING associated with a professional sports team. The team owners and players make out like bandits, and the taxpayers get stiffed.

[1Old Pro]

I am very much opposed to taxpayers footing the bill for ANYTHING associated with a professional sports team. The team owners and players make out like bandits, and the taxpayers get stiffed.

Same for corporate giveaways to attract companies, we always get hosed.

[forgotten man]

The Chargers, owned by the grifters known as the Spanos family, wanted the taxpayers of San Diego to give them a new multi-billion dollar stadium in San Diego. The taxpayers in San Diego voted no. The Spanoses are truly dispicable.