Team was 1.1 Billion, Stadium was apx 300 million.
When you add up ancillary costs you get near 2 billion.
And you are welcome to them (the Texans).
When the NFL pays us enough, we'll allow them to have a team here. We don't need one to feel good about ourselves. In a sense, LA fans are the most devastating: If our teams don't win, WE DON'T CARE.
The opposite of Love is NOT hate. It is disinterest.
The city didn't pay for the team, Bob McNair did, and he paid $700 million, not $1.1 billion. The stadium cost $450 million, but Reliant Energy paid $300 million for the naming rights. Most of the roadway/utilities/sewer improvements also benefit the next door Astrodome (being converted into a hotel/convention/entertainment complex similar to successful Gaylord-owned facilities in Grapevine, TX and Nashville, TN) and the Astroarena used year-round for meetings/events, so you can't allocate all (or even most) of those ancilliary costs to the Texans. Even if you did it would fall far short of $2 billion.