stadium chatter
January 31st, 2010 |The Vikings are part of the cultural fabric that holds us together at a time when many forces seem to be pulling us further apart.
excuse me for a moment while I go vomit…
Seriously, I am shocked that anyone other than Ziggy Wilf and his partners should think that spending a half billion dollars on a football stadium is a good idea.
We have a real problem with our priorities in this country…
7 Responses to “stadium chatter”
Funny, I thought we already had a stadium.
“part of the cultural fabric that holds us together”
ahhhh….. excuse me!!?? In my case it’s the other way around. GO AWAY!!
The economic impact of sports franchises is very well studied. The argument for a publicly funded stadium is always based on emotion rather than facts. That’s because the facts don’t support a public benefit in proportion to the cost.
Sports franchises live in the land of discretionary entertainment dollars. If the sports franchise goes away the dollars just get spent some other way.
The idea that the business community benefits somehow from being in a ‘big league’ city is funny. When my wife was in grad school there was a guy in her lab that only interviewed with companies located in cities with sports franchises. Other than being smart enough to earn a PhD this guy was regarded by everyone else in the lab to be an idiot for having that as a criteria in his job search.
@Bob Schwartz: If the guy in your wife’s lab hadn’t done that he could have ended up in some crappy town like Eau Claire!
“In the middle of a horrible period for retail, they single-handedly lifted the economy with massive numbers of sales of pink and purple clothing,” Rybak said. “Brett Favre helped old men like me think they could still have a chance someday to play for the Minnesota Twins or the Minnesota Vikings.”
@Little D: need the data…otherwise it’s just bloviating from the Mayor, ‘casue that’s what mayors do.
This pretty much says it all:
http://tinyurl.com/yb7xssu