[Kid Shelleen]

* This article is from 2013 and has a bit of leftist slant but I think it is worth a read. Ticket sales are chump change compared to the tax breaks and stadium deals.

Not mentioned in the article is how politicians like Mario Cuomo get their own use luxury suites.

" Twelve teams have turned a profit on stadium subsidies alone—receiving more money than they needed to build their facilities."

[boycott]

We need to cut off the welfare.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Then the kneeling is coming from mandates from probably several federal agencies. The federal agencies are fighting Trump with everything they have.

[forgotten man]

“For Veterans Day last year, the NFL announced that it would donate cash to military groups for each point scored in designated games. During NFL telecasts that weekend, the league was praised for its grand generosity. The total donation came to about $440,000. Annualized, NFL stadium subsidies and tax favors add up to perhaps $1 billion. So the NFL took $1 billion from the public, then sought praise for giving back $440,000—less than a tenth of 1 percent.”

I think I am going to puke.

[laconic]

These NFL subsidies, as well as those for other sports leagues, have made billionaires much richer at the expense of the middle class and poor. I remember Paul Allen, a billionaire liberal partner of Gates at Microsoft, telling the citizens of Seattle that if they didn’t pay $ 400 million for his stadium, he would take his Seahawks elsewhere. Perhaps now is the time for Congress to investigate these tax breaks, antitrust exemptions and subsidies, an issue on which right and left can fully agree.

[Jim Noble]

The accidental billionaires who own these teams lack understanding of how they got to where they are or how to stay there.

I (personally) am not a fan of “fans” or “fan-ism”, but I get why people get into it. The owners must have zero respect for the guys who have made them rich, and they have no idea about what is about to happen to them.

Being a fan who lays out big money to live the fantasy is a state of mind, not a contract or a civic duty. Once the bubble breaks, it’s broken for good.

[factoryrat]

The NFL has become a political activist organization, therefore they need to be stripped of their non-profit status, and tax them them to the hilt.

Actions have consequences.

[dhs12345]

Thank you!

We need to remember this the next time the teams come to the cities to help fund a new stadium.

We must not forget!

[hinckley buzzard]

If things keep on the way they are going now, I would bet that public money for new stadiums is going to be in very short supply.

[Tuketu]

Tax neither me nor thee, but the man behind the tree. Ever notice the cost of a car rental add on at an airport? This is an ILLEGAL TAX ON ALL. They are not charities.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Not hard, not rocket science .... stop watching, buying tickets and stop buying the overpriced sports paraphernalia.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for posting this... the word needs to get out what crooks we’re dealing with...