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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
I think I read somewhere that baseball is the only sport on which a city could spend tax money and expect a reasonable return. That's because baseball teams play 81 home dates. Compare that with an NFL team, which plays 10-12 home games (depending on whether they make the playoffs). Yet the same sort of infrastructure improvements have to be made for both. It just doesn't make a lot of economic sense for a city to invest millions of dollars to accommodate a business that operates 10-12 days out of the year. |
Hmm. Maybe that's true of a city but apparently it's not a concern if a
state is involved.
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Originally Posted by Curve Ball Dave
It's more like billions these days.
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Well, we're getting there. Almost plural.
Bills reach deal for new stadium, with a record amount of taxpayer money funding it
The Buffalo Bills set a new record, and it's a dubious one unless you're an NFL owner. The Bills will have the most public money set toward the construction of a new stadium. According to the Buffalo News, the Bills will get a new $1.4 billion stadium.
I'm a political liberal (and, please, let that be the ONLY reference to politics after this) because I believe in the power of good government to accomplish things that individuals cannot or will not do for the common good.
However, forking over $1.4 billion of taxpayer money to an NFL owner so that he or she can make $billions more is irksome to me. I am with eriqjaffe on this (without the asterisks
).