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To: GeronL
"Public funding of stadiums is STUPID"

Totally agree. It is asinine to build a freakin' outdoor football only stadium that is used for 8 home games per season and two pre-season games.

Sure you've got the Sounders soccer team in Seattle when the Seahawks aren't in season. But big deal.

That don't pay the rent.

And if you have a sometimes great team, like the Seahawks are, for NOW, ticket prices are impossibly high.

But what about teams in "rebuilding seasons" like the Lions have been in for the past what, 30 years?

A great new stadium like Ford field hasn't EXACTLY paid off. Despite hosting a SB.

And it will never host another one.

34 posted on 07/30/2014 7:26:40 PM PDT by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: boop

And look how much was spent on Jerry World in Arlington, but it’s okay for him since OPM paid for most of it


40 posted on 07/30/2014 10:15:54 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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