I’m only 50 yrs. old.
When I was a kid, the Tigers and Lions played at Tiger Stadium.
The Pistons, at Cobo.
The Red Wings at the Olympia.
All great places.
In ‘75, the Lions HAD to have a HUGE new stadium built.
Then the Red Wings HAD to have a new stadium too.
Then the Pistons, then the Tigers. Maybe those are switched...
But I’m AMAZED at how disposable these billion dollar stadiums are! 10-20 years and they start making plans, not to renovate or upkeep the current one, but to abandon it and build a new one.
They maintained the old Tiger stadium for 75 years or something like that. They can’t do the same now with todays’ technology???
No, they wanna spend money. We’re addicted to it. Every polititian wants to build HIS legacy.
Follow the Money.
Or, more appropriately, the Mafia-Union-Construction Industry-Politician connection.