Posted on 01/16/2017 10:44:01 AM PST by ColdOne
The Rams returned to L.A. last year, and the Chargers CEO Dean Spanos confirmed last Thursday that his team is also moving back. Spanos' decision comes after years of haggling with the city of San Diego to secure tax money to build a new stadium, but the request did not receive public support. In November, voters went to the poll and rejected the measure asking for $1.15 billion in taxpayer funding for a new stadium and convention center annex in San Diego, 57 percent to 43 percent.
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I know the Cardinals tried, but the new Stadium was eventually built without public funding (although I have no doubts that there were/are gobs of tax breaks).
On a completely different note, I can’t believe that Dodger Stadium is now the third-oldest ML ballpark.
Here in Pittsburgh they put public funding for PNC Park up to a vote.
It lost 60-40 in the city.
It lost 2:1 in the rest of Allegheny County.
It lost 3,4 and 5 to 1 in surrounding counties.
But PNC Park exists. So our politicians obviously blew us all off and built it anyway.
Largely because the Steelers saw this going on and said “me too”. And the Rooney family can get pretty much anything they want around here.
San Antonio was leverage and nothing more. The Alamodome was below NFL standards when it was built, and it is now 20+ years old. The area has grown like crazy since that time and could possibly (probably) support a team now, but it just wasn't a big enough metro area/TV market at the time. A new stadium deal would have to be in place first, with the dome as a stop-gap only.
Then they would have to get the Texans and Cowboys to buyoff on it. (Good luck with that.)
Thats what I cant figure out. I mean you got football nuts up there in NEB that would support a pro team and these geeks cant figure it out.
Omaha waits.
Hey! If you want a sports stadium, then build it yourself. Then you can run it like you want. And, you won’t be beholden to the taxpayers.
The stadium is such a great investment he wants nothing to with investing his money in it.
If these “free market capitalists” want millions of my dollars invested in their place of business maybe the team should be publicly owned too...
Dean Spanos, why not build your own stadium? If I was a team owner, I would spend my $$$ to build it, not the TAXPAYERS!!!
The Chargers’ move to L.A. exposes the NFL’s truth when it comes to fans
It ain’t the 1980s anymore. There’s a lot more money in sports now and a lot more cities willing to pony up free stadiums.
The only team that will never leave is the one that upset Dallas yesterday. That is Green Bay Packers...a team owned by noons, except the fans...
Thank you for that link. Wow. I knew owners made major cash, just not like that.
It’s a good thing that they will never leave Green Bay, can you imagine the “San Francisco Packers”?
OMG...they would be the San Fran Fudge Packers..instead of Green and yellow uniforms, it would be either pink or rainbow colored...
That would be Pink and Brown, fudge after all.
Cowherd surmised the NFL needs team(s) in internationally recognized cities of the USA. Most people around the world know of Los Angeles, and many people easily know of Las Vegas, NV, the likely next home of the Raiders.
That makes sense.
Jack Kent Cooke did it too.
San Jose should be shared territory.
In a perfect world, the A’s stay in Oakland. Like other cities, build on the parking lot.
But better they move to San Jose than out of the area.
North Dakota State Football is King up there.
Even in the 1970s, there was a plan to move the White Sox to Seattle and the A’s to Chicago (where Charlie Finley lived) to replace them. the thinking was that that would get the A’s out of a bad situation, buy off Seattle (which was suing MLB over the loss of the Seattle Pilots), and solve the White Sox problems too.
It didn’t work out for a variety of reasons.
Then the White Sox made noise about moving down to the then-Suncoast Dome (now Tropicana Field), and they got their new ballpark.
The giants, at various times in the 1970s and 1980s, were going to move to Toronto, Tampa, and Washington.
The Athletics hve been threatening to move everywhere from Dallas-Fort Worth to Seattle to Sacramento to Louisville to Miami to Washington. Some of those options are no longer available.
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