Posted on 08/09/2023 5:17:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Tennessee Titans released a stunning video of its future $2.1 billion home in a bid to further entice its fans.
Set to reside on the East Bank of Nashville - next to its current Nissan Stadium - the 1.7m square-foot dome stadium will be finished by 2027 with construction expected to begin early next year.
The Titans' elaborate video was posted on social media Wednesday ahead of the waitlist for season tickets beginning August 15.
Nashville mayor John Cooper seems to have approved the stadium plans and filed legislation to confirm the building of the new arena in February.
Plans for the AFC South franchise's imminent home show a capacity of about 60,000 is expected.
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So, a second tier NFL team is getting a multibillion dollar stadium.
60k? The Packers have 70k plus now, outside, in the cold, and they’ll be sold out In December.
Didn’t they get a new stadium in 1999 or 2000?
So a little over 20 years later it’s time for a new stadium?
“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows the war is over, everybody knows the good guys lost. Everybody knows the fight was fixed, the poor stay poor, the rich get rich. That’s how it goes, everybody knows.”
Nothing inspires a local politician to vote for subsidizing a new stadium like the computer-simulated view of the field from his comp seats in the luxury suites.
Bad use of tax dollars. NFL owners are all billionaires. They can all take out a loan to build a new stadium themselves.
Trying the same thing here in Jacksonville. Taxpayers footing the bill for a multi billion dollar industry.
Gators are bigger in Jax than the Punjabi Jags.
As my Dad (RIP) used to say, “the taxpayers deserve the very best”
The current stadium has a capacity of 69,000.
Look at Atlanta … the Georgia Dome came and went in the seeming blink of a eye. The Braves are in their third stadium in forty years. And The Omni is long gone too.
Say what you want about Jerry Jones, but he built his stadium himself.
EBT = bread
Feetball stadiums = circuses
The Superdome in New Orleans is being modernized with escalators and 40 yard long liquor bars inside.
For a couple of decades the biggest inspiration was hints of the Los Angeles Bengals, Los Angeles Vikings, Los Angeles (full in name of team that wants to shake down the local taxpayers for a stadium). Just by not having a team in LA the NFL got quite a few stadiums. I’m surprised the ever let a team move in because the threat was far more profitable than actual teams. The Portland ____ wasn’t quite as scary. At the time, Portland was the second largest city without a nearby team. Now St. Louis is the biggest.
Jerry Jones paid for most of the billion dollar stadium but the city of Arlington helped out with $325 million.
Yeah but St. Louis is a $hithole. Salt Lake City. If California had their act together, Sacramento could be a contender. Same deal with Portland for that reason.
Right now you could build in the suburbs of St. Louis. Or anywhere in Salt Lake City.
There are numerous college football teams with 100K+ stadiums. Of the world’s top 10 largest capacity stadiums still in use, 8 of them (numbers 3-10) are American college football stadiums.
Same ol same ol. They threaten to leave if they dont get govt/public dollars to fund most or all of it.
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