RiverDog
Well-known member
This issue is worth it for us Seahawk fans to keep an eye on. There's no way the league will ever allow an iconic franchise like the Bears to move out of the Chicago area as to do so would be analogous to the Yankees moving out of NYC and would be a disaster for the game, so the Bears don't have a lot of options.
But for us here in South Alaska, we don't have that kind of leverage should the Hawks try similar tactics when it comes time for a major overhaul of our current facility, which is approaching a quarter century old. Don't forget, the Kingdome was less than 25 years old when it was imploded.
Chicago Bears told to 'pay for their own damn stadium' after proposal has taxpayers footing $2 billion
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chica ... r-AA1nLbmy
I've always felt that the league and the player's union should start a stadium fund, with both sides contributing a percentage of their player salaries/profits that could be tapped when a team meets a set criterion, one being the size of the market and ability to attract private financing, for a new or improved stadium. There's no way that taxpayers should be footing the bill in a business where both the owners and the players are incredibly rich, and it's the small market teams that are most subject to the extortion tactics that are used by the owners with threats to move the franchise.
But for us here in South Alaska, we don't have that kind of leverage should the Hawks try similar tactics when it comes time for a major overhaul of our current facility, which is approaching a quarter century old. Don't forget, the Kingdome was less than 25 years old when it was imploded.
Chicago Bears told to 'pay for their own damn stadium' after proposal has taxpayers footing $2 billion
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chica ... r-AA1nLbmy
I've always felt that the league and the player's union should start a stadium fund, with both sides contributing a percentage of their player salaries/profits that could be tapped when a team meets a set criterion, one being the size of the market and ability to attract private financing, for a new or improved stadium. There's no way that taxpayers should be footing the bill in a business where both the owners and the players are incredibly rich, and it's the small market teams that are most subject to the extortion tactics that are used by the owners with threats to move the franchise.