Link: Falcons making contingency plans on new stadium

BamaFlum

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It seems like with all the revenue these teams make and what the league makes, the taxpayers wouldn't have to foot the bill.


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Isaiah 63:1

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Probably at 35k or in an airport somewhere
It seems like with all the revenue these teams make and what the league makes, the taxpayers wouldn't have to foot the bill.
They wouldn't have to if city governments would all agree not to. Until that happens, no Mayor wants to be the one that loses a major league sports franchise because he/she wouldn't use a hotel tax paid by visitors to fund a new stadium.

I believe the current Redskins' stadium was paid for without public money, but it's the exception that proves the rule...
 

Crimson1967

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Out of curiosity..Are these stadiums paid for by the city or by the NFL teams..Nevermind..I just read where taxpayers foots most if not all the cost..That's crazy stuff..

Dude, you really thought the team was going to pay for this?
 

Vinny

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Or circular sinks in the middle of the floor. Back in 92 when Bama played Tulane in the Superdome, it was my first time at that place. I had a lot to drink and needed to pee. I took a pee what I thought was a circular trough. It was pretty funny at the time.


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TideMan09

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Dude, you really thought the team was going to pay for this?
I honestly had no idea how things work in the NFL, I keep up with Atlanta to an extent, I try to keep up with Bama Players playing in the NFL..That's bout all know about the NFL..

NFL teams act like they own these stadiums & I thought the franchises paid a good bit of the amount of the cost when building these ridiculous extravagant stadiums like this Billion Dollar+ future home of The Falcons..Listening to Jerry Jones you would think he paid for "Jerry World" with his spare change he had laying around..
 

92tide

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Just curious, how are thousands of people supposed to get to the new stadium? I only see one road going out to it. Did I miss something?
nope. i expect it to be a full fledged [crap] show. that area was already one of the worst in atlanta for traffic, and now this is being thrown on top of it.

on the plus side, for those of us on the southside, we will no longer have mid-day and rush hour braves traffic on top of the regular horrible traffic.
 

TideMan09

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I read comments in another article about folks complaining about the location of the stadium due to the high crime rate in the area & they wanted it built in another location..Is crime as bad in the location it's being built as folks are complaining about????..
 

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I read comments in another article about folks complaining about the location of the stadium due to the high crime rate in the area & they wanted it built in another location..Is crime as bad in the location it's being built as folks are complaining about????..
it's being built about 1/8 of a mile from the old stadium.
 

DzynKingRTR

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nope. i expect it to be a full fledged [crap] show. that area was already one of the worst in atlanta for traffic, and now this is being thrown on top of it.

on the plus side, for those of us on the southside, we will no longer have mid-day and rush hour braves traffic on top of the regular horrible traffic.
i live only a few miles from the new braves stadium, i am not happy
 

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