An indoor stadium at that. All that for a chance to host a super bowl once every twenty years. I read somewhere that the Vikings started sucking once they went into a dome. The Minnesota weather was a major competitive advantage for the Purple People Eaters.
All these stadiums are starting to look the same. In fact Tennessee's new stadium is literally just a cheaper version of the Raiders one. We've reached the cookie-cutter redux era of NFL stadium building. Teams that choose to have an outdoor stadium will be in the minority within the next 5-10 years.... and you could see a Buffalo or a New England using that to their advantage.
Even worse…. The teams will own those areas and expect major profits on the eateries, so I doubt they’ll have outside major franchises (which is probably a good thing). LA, Minnesota, Atlanta, even Arlington did show that you can build one of these new-age translucent domes…. But not have them all look exactly the same.
Unfortunately people love their sports teams and the owners are using it to their advantage. All it takes is threats to move and most cities cave. Even Seattle lost the Sonics and most people regret it. The only city with enough leverage to have the billionaires pay for stadiums is LA and similar. An area like KC has no shot.
I'm so old I can remember when a Million was a lot of money. Now you're poor unless you have a Million. A Million is barely middle class.
KC is an OK town, and I had to drive to the Kansas side which is 5 minutes from downtown KC and that place was a dump, now I dont want to paint the who area like that but there isnt a lot to do.......if memory serves me there was a Toby Keiths casino on the KS side Arrowhead is one of the best stadiums in the NFL and the people are awesome and its friggin LOUD and teams like us want no part of going there in December and they seemed to have thrived in it. Billionaires are never satisfied...more , more, more SMH
Certain people? Sure. But to penalize people who earned their wealth to pay for a lot (not all) of people who don't is absurd. Go live in an apartment, give up on your food ( you've got plenty) and donate everything else to the bs you spew. You won't. Just a huge hypocrite
This is essentially the deal the Texans have in Houston NOW.... except the rent money that was supposed to be reserved for maintenance/repairs isn't going to cover that due to the amount of maintenance/repairs NRG needs to keep up to standards. Even worse the rodeo is involved in the NRG decisions... except they need an area where there's plenty of grounds-space/parking lots, and don't have much leverage to go out and build their own venue (or get the city to fork over land/money for it). It will be painted as a county/city property... but the county/city really isn't running any aspect of it, nor are they seemingly competent enough to be on top of needed repairs or bidding for improvements (and why would they be? its not "their" facility despite what the deed says).
I get your point with the last sentence, but as someone who will attend many games at the new Buffalo stadium, I cannot believe they didn't have a retractable roof. I'd be super pissed if I was a tax payer there. I wouldn't even care so much if they had the roof open for snowy games. That'd be kind of cool, actually. Just close it for rainy games. But the fact that they're still going to ask for urgent snow shovelers before the games in the winter (I've never done this, though), and call it a community building exercise essentially, is just dumb.* *Granted they pay these people with free tickets and I think sometimes cash. And they supposedly have a state of the art snow melt system (we'll see how well/long that works).
