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Here we go again. Sports franchises should build their own facilities with private funds. They should not expect taxpayers to foot the bill. The city of San Diego should tell the Chargers to take a hike.

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1 posted on 02/19/2015 2:35:21 PM PST by EveningStar

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2 posted on 02/19/2015 2:35:55 PM PST by EveningStar

3 posted on 02/19/2015 2:36:24 PM PST by EveningStar

4 posted on 02/19/2015 2:37:05 PM PST by dfwgator

Except of course somebody’s taxpayers WILL voluntarily foot the bill. Smart businesses don’t pay for things they can get free.

5 posted on 02/19/2015 2:37:15 PM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)

It’s an f@@king GAME. Let them leave if they want to.

6 posted on 02/19/2015 2:37:31 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)

What makes LA think fans will support a NFL team? They never have in the past.

7 posted on 02/19/2015 2:37:57 PM PST by Cry if I Wanna

Sports franchises should build their own facilities with private funds. They should not expect taxpayers to foot the bill.

Every economic study has shown that taxpayer funding of stadiums doesn't pay.

9 posted on 02/19/2015 2:44:12 PM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)

As a resident of San Diego I would like to say, I don’t give a rat’s behind what the Chargers do.

11 posted on 02/19/2015 2:47:40 PM PST by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)

Is LA going to build them a stadium?

LA is like an NFL slut.

12 posted on 02/19/2015 2:49:55 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)

One of the mayors aides compared Mark Fabiani (Bill Clinton’s former spinmeister) to Ryan Leaf. Ouch! That left a mark.

Compared to the other billionaire NFL owners, the Spanoses are low rent cheapskates. They don’t want to pay for squat.

13 posted on 02/19/2015 2:52:45 PM PST by forgotten man

I'm a Chargers fan, and I agree with you. I have no interest in paying a billion dollars to keep them here. If his business needs to be subsidized to stay afloat, that's his problem. The thing is, it doesn't. Spanos is just a greedy, rich family that had enough money to buy a franchise when they were only worth 10 percent of what they are now, and now they want every last dollar they can squeeze from their ownership. If that means they have to go to LA to maximize their profits, they are willing to do it, fans be damned.

I am happy for local government to do whatever it can to help them stay. Make land available, give them tax breaks, create special economic zones. But forking over taxpayer money because Jerry Jones gets to sell sky boxes for millions and Dean Spanos doesn't? Boo hoo. The economic benefit of an NFL team is not sufficient for the amounts that would be spent on a stadium.

Fabiani is Clinton's old consigliere. He is lower than pond scum, and he is just as dirty. I do not trust anything he says. I believe the Chargers have been trying to find a way out of SD for 10 years, but the league won't let them move to LA. Now, the Rams owner has a good deal for a stadium, and he may get permission to return to LA, and suddenly, the Chargers are frantic. If anyone gets to move to LA, they want it to be them. I don't think they are negotiating in good faith with the city for a stadium, I think Fabiani is intentionally pissing everyone off so that he can go to the NFL and say that they have done all they could, now please let us move to LA. In their minds they are already gone.

It would be sweet, sweet justice for the Rams to be allowed to move, but not the Chargers. If the NFL says no, suddenly, Fabiani and Spanos will be so conciliatory to the city that it will be like they have been rapped on the head by an angel and learned to love all mankind. They will be "stuck" in that terrible place to live and make tens of millions of profits, year after year, that is San Diego.

That's my rant for the day.

14 posted on 02/19/2015 2:54:40 PM PST by Defiant (Please excuse Mr. Clinton for his involvement with young girls. --Epstein's Mother)

Chargers do not have enough fans to ask for tax money. Chargers should go out of business.

17 posted on 02/19/2015 3:12:42 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))

LA does not need another pro football team. They already have USC. /s

18 posted on 02/19/2015 3:19:02 PM PST by llevrok (I fear the US government more than I do al Qaeda)

Sports franchises should build their own facilities with private funds. They should not expect taxpayers to foot the bill. The city of San Diego should tell the Chargers to take a hike.

If building and operating a professional sports stadium or arena was profitable, the teams would insist on building their own venues.

22 posted on 02/19/2015 3:29:16 PM PST by GreenHornet

It is what the Rams are taking about. And really, the Chargers would build a new stadium in Los Angeles if the option came up. Los Angeles without a team is the owners biggest bargaining chip. The moment that we get a team, all the leverage goes away. No more threats to go to Los Angeles.

35 posted on 02/19/2015 7:14:30 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)

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