$1.65B for what... eight games a year??? maybe a superbowl now and again? let the NFL pay for them
Posted on 09/26/2015 12:57:41 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- Potential stadiums in Carson and Inglewood have both been approved by their respective local governments, and now comes the hard part; getting them paid for. The Carson stadium, which will most likely hold the Raiders and the Chargers, will cost $1.65 billion. This would put it up with MetLife Stadium and the Tokyo National Olympic Stadium as one of the most expensive stadia in the world. The NFL has a typically nefarious plan to do help get the cash together, which involves asking the NFLPA to help out.
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If this is a moneymaker, and a worthwhile investment, why cant they find an investor?
“My guess is most of it will come from tax payers.”
Doesn’t it always?
Inglewood plans, to my knowledge, are not financed publicly, but would be predicated on a Rams return to LA.
Latest rumor is they are willing to split with Chargers ala Jets/Giants. No realignment required ... NFC and AFC west both represented.
Is that what they want?
Well, people in Hell want ice water.
The investors will come once the decision is made for which venue. Not sure who decides that. The NFL commissioner? The city? The county? I know little of the internal mechanisms of the NFL, but would like a home team to root for again.
Looks like it’s going to be the Texas Raiders playing in the Alamodome while their new stadium is built between San Antonio and Austin.
Investors want to get paid back, stadium deals are all about something for nothing.
Oh, they can, the owners simply want to use the same money twice - once into the player's retirement fund, the second in requiring the fund to buy into the stadium.
As for public money - there's plenty being spent on both stadiums, mostly in infrastructure improvements and unpaid police, fire and medical coverage for the stadium. The public employee unions don't want any public financing of the stadiums as they are extremely well aware just how little there is left after their non-stop embezzlement of public funds into sweetheart retirement and employment benefits - any assumption of debt could literally send a city over the cliff into bankruptcy.
The inglewood rams of Los angeles?
The Rams owner already owns the land...
$1.65B for what... eight games a year??? maybe a superbowl now and again? let the NFL pay for them
The “NFL” aka Roger Goodell, is an idiot.
NFL yes. No to players chipping in. Thy already have a short football life so its not like they are rolling in money.....only the Quarterback and a few others.
yup
His ass needs to be fired, along with the rest of his lame self.
Ya know I like football....my real last name is Brady and I was raised in Massachusetts ...this price is absurd. Finance what a field of grass with stands and a locker room? Offer it to Donald Trump and see what he would give ya for a price? use some leftover pre-fab concrete slabs and make it so we can house the vermin illegals prior to deportation (off season only.) The gall of this football league is off the scale. Fk these A holes if they can give Goodell 44 million a year then hunker down and pay for your own shite.....tired of these thieves....The best football players ever were working a regular job in the off season....
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