Report: State of Tennessee Stuck with More than Half the Cost of New Titans Stadium

Breitbart ^ | 10/17/2022 | WARNER TODD HUSTON

[Lockbox]

The Roman Stadium is still up after 2000 years!

The Oilers played this scam on Houston and we did not bite, so the Oilers left! You know that the additional number of cities which can support a NFL team is mostly down to zero. So Nashville and Tennessee save the taxpayers 1.4 billion dollars!

I just love how businesses cannot afford their building to operate so government needs to help. I suggest Nissan North America with 35,000+ Employees call up the State and Local Government to help.......

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Doesn't Nashville get a steady stream of tourists due to the music scene?

Will a new covered stadium just mean some tourists coming to see a game rather than listening to music?

[oneandfinished]

If the state (tax payers) do not pay for a new stadium, then the owner threatens to move the team to another city that will pay for a new stadium.

[1Old Pro]

State governments have so much money, they are literally awash. Yet they spend it on waste as their pension system goes broke.

We should have a 10% federal tax and a 5% state tax and there should be a required balanced budget and defined benefit pension plan in balance. as well as a rock solid SS and medicare system.

But noooo, they waste trillions and say they need more money.

[Rummyfan]

Even with these huge tax subsidies, many people are priced out of buying tickets to games.

The last season I had tickets for the Ravens they were $80 each per game. End zone upper deck.

[Dilbert San Diego]

And that is nothing new. Going back to Walter O’Malley in Brooklyn in the 1950s, teams have tried to get stadiums built, and subsidies used to help underwrite it all.

[Dilbert San Diego]

When they started billing season ticket holders for personal seat licenses for new stadiums, I recall hearing that the seat license money goes to pay for the stadium. And that selling point was that, since the fans/ticket buyers were paying for the stadium, then the general public would not be paying for new stadiums; that no tax money would go to stadium construction and operations.

I don’t know if that plan has actually worked anywhere, but that was supposed to be a selling point for seat licenses, that this money paid for the stadium.

[Campion]

(1) Yes. That and bachelorette parties. [gag]

(2) "In addition to", not "rather than" ... one would hope.

[qaz123]

So you can speak for all of Tennessee? How peachy for you.

[qaz123]

How do you know?

Feel free to name another city that can generate the fan base.

[qaz123]

And here’s the best part….Nashville has been for a while and continues to become a radical, liberal, hipster enclave.

The last mayor was a Dem. The new one is a straight up leftist. And if I’m not mistaken, both carpetbaggers.

[Steve_Seattle]

The cheapest tickets for the recent Seattle Mariners/Houston Astros playoff game in Seattle were said to be going for $400. I don’t know if that was the set price or the scalper’s price.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Ben Shapiro moved the “Daily Wire” to Nashville recently. Maybe you can get him to encourage Nashville to host CPAC. It would also be a great opportunity for local sportsmen to go RINO hunting. /sarc

[kiryandil]

Tennessee congressman David Crockett, on grabbing from the public treasury:

https://www.101bananas.com/library2/crockett.html

[Campion]

I just observed that an enclosed stadium could host events that the current stadium can't.

Switch to decaf.

[sloanrb]

As a former native of Nashville, I have seen every government trying to be considered a great as Atlanta, Chicago, or other big cities. Even in the 1980s they were trying to get a major league NFL, NBA or baseball team. Once time they even tried to bid on the Olympics.

Nashville has delusions of being greater than Atlanta.

[yuleeyahoo]

Haha! The government should never build work places for private corporations. Government lawyers always approve contracts that are not in their clients interests free from fear of repercussions. Also, the ROI on these things never pan out.

[tflabo]

An out of towner staying at a Nashville area hotel has to fork over taxes on a new sports facility that benefits them nothing. We call that legalized stealing by government.

[woodbutcher1963]

The one thing good about the stadium is its proximity to the downtown tourist area across the river.
Nashville is already a destination city for the music scene and Batchlorette parties. Those parties bring in the guys chasing the young ladies.

Nashville, like Vegas is one of a few cities that people travel to for a long weekend to have a good time. Unlike some other cities, everything is downtown except for the Grand Ole Opera.

[qaz123]

Really?

So, why was New Orleans the only city to submit a bid for one of the upcoming Super Bowls?

Super Bowl LVIII: New Orleans only city bidding on 2024 game https://www.nola.com/sports/saints/article_5d64d2f5-b7b7-59bf-a646-98ea22e9dbc0.html

Why is that? Because these numbers thrown around about how much money is generated are BS. When you take into account the amount of OT and other expenses and the headaches associated with all of it, cities are finding out it isn’t worth it.

Oh wait....the new stadium will be able to host the Final Four. What do facilities do for things like the Final Four? They reconfigure it so folks can actually watch it. The Final Four could easily be hosted in the Predators arena which is more than adequate for a basketball event. An event that brings in folks for a few days, half the folks go home on Sunday after their teams lose.