NFL owners sack taxpayers, line own pockets

The Wahington Times ^ | 21 September 2015 | Drew Johnson

[oh8eleven]

The winners are the NFL’s 32 team owners, who managed to scam taxpayers out of $7 billion over the last 20 years to subsidize stadium construction and renovation schemes, according to a new report by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance.

That leaves taxpayers as the losers, forced to fork over their hard-earned money in a perverse corporate welfare scheme that amounts to welfare for billionaires.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Blame the local politicians, not the owners - if someone is stupid enough to offer you a boat-load of free money because you can field a team of 300 pound guys playing a kid’s game, wouldn’t you take it?

[oh8eleven]

He has even said that there is no urgency to build a new stadium.
Why build a new stadium at all when (as I already said) they just spent hundreds of millions in just the last few years?

[oh8eleven]

I can’t watch any sports with a straight face anymore. The amount of time, money, and emotion wasted on these frigging games is sickening.
I couldn't agree more. What's worse is that not only are the owners multi-millionaires, so are all the players. Sickening.