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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
It was shot down from an "eat the rich" mentality.
If the teams need a nine figure public outlay to stay in the metro, it's not ****ing happening.
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I don't agree. But they need to actually
provide something for their 9 figures.
I reiterate - I think they could get a 50/50 split on a whole new stadium if they pursued it and actually sold it well to the public. But "Hey, give us 2/3 of our build costs on luxury suites your poor asses will never be allowed near" isn't going to get it done.
$700 million and $700 million will get you enough to build a hell of a stadium. It won't be the $2 billion behemoth the Raiders got in LV, but it'll be a top 5ish stadium in the NFL in terms of amenities. But it's gonna cost Clark more and it's gonna be harder to design/build. Clark relied on inertia in pursuing the path of least resistance.
It was a piss poor effort that killed this and not some dogmatic opposition to public/private stadium partnerships.