08-17-2018, 12:49 PM
(08-17-2018, 12:35 PM)grampahol Wrote: I've never been comfortable with the public as in tax payers funding such endeavors. Plenty of people could care less about sports in general much less football and these definitely are not essential services to public health and safety. If the team and players want to fund them, fine, but don't ask someone with zero interest in sports to fork over part of their paycheck for your own personal interests. While I like sports and football if it went away tomorrow and completely vanished from the public mind my life wouldn't change one iota..
Sure, the case can be made for the jobs sports support, but there are many other things that can support jobs besides sports.
I'm not 100% in favor of taxpayers financing it either, I go back and forth. There is no denying many people could care less, but those same people also benefits from the revenue, jobs, and taxes these facilities bring to the city....
