ditto here on both of those things
taxpayer financed infrastructure is stupid for a multi-billion private business/industry
where 20 out of 32 NFL teams are valued at $1 billion or more each, and the TV networks paid $28 billion for the rights to air NFL games last season
they can well afford to finance the stadiums themselves, without taxpayers support
they’ll have to NOT give as big of salaries to some guys and charge the networks more, or take a small hit on their profits, or all three of those, but financiing stadiums themselves will not put them out of business
Here in Chicago we built the stadium, let the owner use it for free for 30 years and then we own it. How is that a good deal for the taxpayer?
It’s just stealing via legislation. Just because it is ‘legal’ doesn’t mean it’s right.