The Mexican Ministery of Tourism is exuberant, stating that hosting American NFL games provided a great "economic impact to Mexico City and the country itself".
Folks, please read my post #43 up-thread where I discuss the negative impact on the economy of the American cities where teams will be not playing at home on a given Sunday, travelling south of the border instead.
The game just played in MexCit was a home game of the Raiders vs. the visiting Patriots. played away.
Since there is just so many home games played in Oakland during the season the vendors inside and outside the stadium take a big hit...as well as the city and state tax coffers....when the game is moved to a foreign country.
Leni
Good points all! Mexico has yet another item for which to be grateful to the US...
And if I recall correctly, many of these home towns provide massive amounts of incentives,concessions, etc. to the home team in terms of advertising tax breaks, etc...in hopes of enhanced economic activity.
So the NFL not only screws the military, first responders and patriotic citizens, they are now even short-changing their home cities. No integrity, no allegiance to anything or anyone except the all mighty buck and themselves :(
After the NFL has died of self-inflicted wounds, I hope some intelligent entrepreneurs start a NEW professional football league... if not I will stick with college ball - until the lousy libs destroy that also. I liked the Arena League football, but the tv would not carry the games: a death sentence [which still took a number of seasons.]
I am just heart sick about what the libs have done to the NFL... BUT the Stalinist libs have infiltrated more and more of our traditional institutions [e.g: AMA, media, education] until I suspect the only solution for we traditionalists is state secession or a civil war.