Around here, it's theater of the absurd. Cleveland Browns stadium was publically financed. So when the owner of the team wanted a more humongous scoreboard, $5 million dollars of public money was used! Yup, people who can't afford to go to games see their tax money being spent on a fancy scoreboard rather than going to cities and towns that need it. And then there's cigarette taxes that go to build stadiums where people can't smoke.
Grrr......
There’s one big reason why they can’t: cities and counties and states are willing to to build the stadiums for the team. One of the first rules of business is never spend money you don’t have to.
If Cleveland refuses, the football team could always move to a brand new stadium in let’s say Oklahoma City.