What do stadiums and Amtrak have in common?

[LJ_Reloaded]

Clue: Of the 80 stadiums built in the United States since 1990, only 8 were NOT funded by taxpayers.

 

[Beco]

Clue: Of the 80 stadiums built in the United States since 1990, only 8 were NOT funded by taxpayers.

So? Idiots think they need an NFL team in their cities....do the math, they be wrong. Minnestoa next on the board....

 

[Peregrinator]

You have to buy a ticket to get in?

 

[phrodeau]

They're both public facilities that attract industry to their communities?

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

I'll take "It takes balls to play on either of them" for 500 Alex

 

[Peregrinator]

If you're in either one and it's an especially good day, you get a blow job.

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

Are we on the right track or just out standing in a field wasting our time?

 

[badbabysitter]

Your imaginary wife abandoned you at both?

 

[Peregrinator]

They both have beaks for eating frogs?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Shazaam!

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Clue: Of the 80 stadiums built in the United States since 1990, only 8 were NOT funded by taxpayers.

I'd be willing to wager the 8 on your list had their infrastructure provided at taxpayer expense.

 

[Beco]

I'd be willing to wager the 8 on your list had their infrastructure provided at taxpayer expense.

Probably, somehow NFL owners convinced residents that they NEED an NFL team and that team NEEDS a state of the art stadium, and......they should pay for it.

More of a scam if you ask me...


The Maryland Stadium Authority (MSA) and the State of Maryland were so anxious to make a deal with a pro football team, according to the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Good Jobs First Report called “Subsidizing the Low Road: Economic Development in Baltimore,” that they pretty much gave away the store to Art Modell, owner of the team that was then called the Cleveland Browns.
The state initially agreed to build a new $200 million stadium and maintain a fund for continuing improvements; allowed the team to use the refurbished (at a cost of $2 million) Memorial Stadium until the new stadium was completed; allowed the Ravens to pay the stadium’s operating costs—about $4 million annually—instead of paying rent; and let the team keep all profits from tickets, concessions, parking, and ad revenues during games, as well as half the proceeds from non-NFL events held at the stadium. Further, Modell gets to keep the estimated $75 million in revenue from the sale of “personal seat licenses.”

When stadium construction costs escalated, the MSA sold the “naming rights” of the stadium to the team for $10 million in 1997—and the team then sold the rights to PSINet for $79.5 million.

 

[KRCummings]

I wonder how stadium is defined. 80 in over 20 years doesn't sound like much when considering minor league teams and basketball arenas.

 

[Sean]

This is something I've always thought was weird in the US. If a professional team wants a stadium over here, NFW would the taxpayer be on the hook for it.

Then again, our teams don't change cities, either. The last fucker to try it had his house, and the houses of his family, burnt down.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

I'd be willing to wager the 8 on your list had their infrastructure provided at taxpayer expense.

I wouldn't bet against you on that.