Originally Posted By: TooManyWheels
Originally Posted By: ViragoBry
Hey, Jerry's gotta pay for that stadium AND make millions on it somehow.
Was never a football fan anyway, and I live nowhere near Arlington so the stadium and it's food prices have no affect on me. But I do feel for the people who scrimped and saved to buy tickets to see a game at Texas stadium. Those folks are now priced out of the game. Cowboys Stadium is for the well-to-do sportsfan.
I don't know that much about Arlington but I'd be willing to bet there are a lot of public subsidies to that stadium, which makes the high prices even more galling. I just don't understand why sports complexes are something that are deserving of gulping at the public tax trough.
Here's how you get a bankrupt city to fund a new stadium. You threaten to move, taking away all the revenue that you currently generate for the city.
It's the standard format. Make it painful either way they go. So, bonds get issued, construction contracts, jobs ..etc ..and up the ticket prices go.
I can't imagine being a season ticket holder for any sports team. One trip to watch Phil play the Dodgers on Lasorda's comp tickets (200 section) cost me $100 with free parking taking the 2 oldest kids about 15 years ago. I would have to be into 6 digits to do that as a dedicated season ticket fan. I imagine I would learn some economies with the vending, but the hard core fans I saw there had no issue yelling for whatever the vendors were pedaling.