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re: Why are professional sports franchises allowed to shakedown cities for arenas?
Posted on 8/23/25 at 9:26 am to The Scofflaw
Posted on 8/23/25 at 9:26 am to The Scofflaw
Professional sports are all monopolies controlled by a single league.
This gives the teams in those leagues tremendous power if the sport is popular like the NFL.
I'm sure a lot of politicians don't want to bend over backwards for these NFL goons but they are worried if they lose the team the voters will take it out on them.
And then a lot of them are happy enough to essentially accept the bribes for the new arenas.
This gives the teams in those leagues tremendous power if the sport is popular like the NFL.
I'm sure a lot of politicians don't want to bend over backwards for these NFL goons but they are worried if they lose the team the voters will take it out on them.
And then a lot of them are happy enough to essentially accept the bribes for the new arenas.
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Posted on 8/23/25 at 9:26 am to StansberryRules
The fact that I pay taxes to fund the superdome or other venues for pro sports in any aspect pisses me off.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 11:08 am to danilo
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See some baseball owners not spending shite because they don’t have to.
*cough* Nutting *cough*
Posted on 8/23/25 at 11:13 am to The Scofflaw
Because they will move to big cities otherwise.
As a San Antonio resident, give the spurs whatever they want. They are all we have.
Hockey and WNBA (not that I care about the latter too much) both moved to Vegas. Spurs could be next.
As a San Antonio resident, give the spurs whatever they want. They are all we have.
Hockey and WNBA (not that I care about the latter too much) both moved to Vegas. Spurs could be next.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 11:37 am to evil cockroach
If it happens Missouri in a fifty year span would have lost 3 NFL franchises and a MLB team
Posted on 8/23/25 at 12:00 pm to usc6158
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Because they are held hostage by the team's ability to move to somewhere that will.
Not the Packers
Posted on 8/23/25 at 12:22 pm to ragincajun03
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There's no "allowing" any more than if say...Piggly Wiggly went to Breaux Bridge and said, "If you don't help us build a new store, we're out of here". Breaux Bridge would laugh at Piggly Wiggly, but state legislators and city councils don't laugh at the Saints, Astros or Bulls when something they say something like that. They fork over taxpayer money.
Yes but Piggly Wiggly actually competes in a competitive market whereas pro sports in the U.S. are granted exemptions to all the free market practices we enforce in other industries.
If pro sports leagues weren’t exempt from many of the monopolistic rules we enforce in other industries, they wouldn’t have this leverage.
There’s a reason taxpayer funded stadiums aren’t a common practice in Europe unless the stadium is also being used for something like the Olympics.
If there was a league of groceries, and they were allowed to dictate who owned every grocery, where each was located, and the employment and pay rates of the staff across all groceries, Piggly Wiggly would have far more leverage than pro sports teams.
This post was edited on 8/23/25 at 12:25 pm
Posted on 8/23/25 at 1:56 pm to The Scofflaw
Teams want new stadiums now every 10-15 years, it's a joke.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 4:01 pm to The Scofflaw
because we as a society put way too much emphasis on pro sports.
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