Posted on 01/29/2007 11:41:06 AM PST by EveningStar
Calling it an "unsafe investment," the mayor of Salt Lake County said Monday that he won't support $30 million in taxes for a professional soccer stadium, a fatal blow to Real Salt Lake's plan to move to the suburbs...
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Given the choice between watching televised soccer or "The Coin Vault," I will always choose soccer. Unless they're talking about early release Gold Eagles.
Unfortunately, you can't watch soccer during NFL commercial breaks. You still might see most of the game, but you'd probably miss the one goal.
The Smith & Wesson Gun Cam is more exciting!
Wow...good for the mayor, standing up for the taxpayers.
I wish our Governor and legislature understood that concept last spring.
They backed a new professional baseball stadium that will be built for a half-senile billionaire and his wealthy sons.
Of course this is the Republican, Salt Lake COUNTY Mayor as opposed to the commie, Democrat Mayor of Salt Lake city, Rocky Anderson.
Just in case someone may be confused.
Thanks for that - I was just about to post that I couldn't believe Red Rocky Anderson would come out against a new tax.
I'll bet he starts whining about this soon, though.
I know. It would be bad enough if it was for a sport that people actually watched.
You mean they aren't doing this on the advice of the local paper sports departments and call in sports radio? I am shocked! The sports guys got excited when there was a rumor about the Pittburgh Penguins coming to Houston. You might want to listen to the message fans are giving you when deciding to move from a logical hockey town to a place that doesn't ever see snow. I wonder if manufacturers were doing special promotions to get men to continue buying suspenders after the belt and belt loop was perfected. Bowties? Buggy whips? Hockey.
OTOH, do you think his decision would have been different had it been a major league football or baseball team?
A lot of people here would not go to an NFL game on Sundays. Heck, there's a guy who turned down millions just to play on Sundays. (Eli Herring, I think)
Weird factoid: Peter Coroon is Howard Dean's cousin.
Peter Coroon is a Democrat. He won because the previous Republican county mayor was caught handing out jobs to relatives.
Which one would provide the city a larger return of investment? A stadium that regularly gets 40, 50 or even 100,000 souls on the stands...or one that might get 20,000 (and even that is stretching it...)?
Oh yeah, I forgot. Nancy Workman got smeared. Turned out there wasn't any evidence of wrong doing IIRC. No charges were ever filed.
LOL brilliant!!!!
Why is a city playing investment banker with the taxpayers' money in the first place?
Methinks the outcome would have been different had this been for an NFL stadium.
Because they can...and because it's tax monies.
At least with a proven crowd-generating sport (like baseball or football,) you're virtually guaranteed a steady stream of fairly-high-attendance games (unless you're in Montreal or Tampa)
What do you get with soccer in the USA? More to the point, exactly how many cities have stadiums built exclusively for soccer? Most MLS teams use someone else's stadium, and have plenty of trouble filling them.
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