The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was thrown into question Tuesday when residents of Jackson County voted down a sales tax measure that would have helped to fund a new downtown ballpark along with major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium.
Good. These stadium “deals” are always a billionaire’s way to socialize the cost and privatize the profits.
The only way privately owned clubs should exist is like English football.
Where the owner pays for everything, and if you fuck up you get sent down and less money. I don’t think a team has ever moved locations, they’re that city’s team.
With the NFL, there is zero risk and a guaranteed return on investment thru profit sharing. 2022 was $375,000,000 to every team just for existing. And the salary cap ensures players can only get so much. You hear stories all the time about star players taking lower pay to help the team like they’re heros.
When really they should all be striking to remove the salary cap.
Hell, most of them only have a few years of good salary. Rookie contracts are a joke, and the majority never get a second. Get rid of the draft even. Let them sign where they want for whatever pay they want.
It’s all done under the guise of “fairness for the game” but who honestly thought the Lions have as good of a shot as the Chiefs?
Being drafted by the wrong team can (and has) literally ruined careers before. Trades are no better, imagine your job saying you had to move to a shit hole city or you could no longer work for any company in your industry
If the owners get all the benefits of capitalism, why are the players stuck in such a limited system?
If the owners get all the benefits of capitalism, why are the players stuck in such a limited system?
Because that’s the point of capitalism. The ones with the capital control things.
For the record, New England Patriots owner did pay for Gillette Stadium and all recent improvements. And all of the adjacent shopping district.
He should setup a Go Fund Me.
Right? It’s fucking bullshit that we pay for these stadiums, and then have to pay to use them, and some rich fuck pockets all the money.
Yeah, teams should pay for this stuff themselves.
Good. Stadium deals are just a corporate handout at taxpayer expense
Right, because sports are so poor that they can barely afford their millions and millions of dollars in salaries - please help them. Won’t somebody think of the profit margins?
lol
This one is kind of a shame. The current stadium is an edge-of-town monster in a sea of parking lots. And so it shall now continue to be for the indefinite future.
The new one was going to be a downtown fixture that would’ve been a huge boon for public transit, downtown activities, and neighborhood businesses in an area that, frankly, should be doing way better.
No one likes stadium projects, but this is a rare opportunity to show people a better future through practical urbanism. This move helps hold the city hostage by car dependency that much more.
You know aside from all the evidence historically otherwise.
What’s cool is they could still put public transit that goes to the current stadium.
In San Diego for Qualcomm (where the Chargers used to play) has tram stops right outside the lot, and bus stops within the lot itself.
