Story about possible move

[Defensewins]

Only if Snyder pays for the new stadium and all utilities infrastructure costs himself.
I am tired of tax payers paying for new stadiums or even infrastructure costs for the NFL owners. The $9 billions dollar a year NFL needs to start paying for their own shit. Especially to abandon a perfectly good stadium and build a new one just to shits and giggles. Wasteful at a time when cutting out waste from the swollen federal budget is needed. Cut the shit!

[Skinzman]

Originally Posted by Defensewins

Only if Snyder pays for the new stadium and all utilities infrastructure costs himself.
I am tired of tax payers paying for new stadiums or even infrastructure costs for the NFL owners. The $9 billions dollar a year NFL needs to start paying for their own shit. Especially to abandon a perfectly good stadium and build a new one just to shits and giggles. Wasteful at a time when cutting out waste from the swollen federal budget is needed. Cut the shit!

You are looking at this wrong. I agree 100% that politicians need to cut wasteful spending. However, the fact is, stadiums and professional sports teams are profit for local and state govt's. Thats why state govt's offer up money to build them for sports teams in the first place.

The construction costs, a fair amount paid for by state govt's, are full of money to pay people to build the stadiums and infrastructure. Local residents that will spend that money and pay taxes... Locally.

Once the stadium is built, that is taxes being paid on sales of tickets as well as food and merchandise that the govt's get back. As well as jobs at the stadium to add to the economy.

Look at Virginia paying what it did to get the Redskins to stay in Ashburn and to get training camp into Richmond. The salary cap is what?... 120 mil? And Dan keeps that cap pretty full. So Virginia is looking at say... 100 mil in salaries to players alone that will mainly live in or around Ashburn (and thats if there is 20 mil dead cap space). 100 mil that will predominately get spent in Virginia, and that doesnt include jobs of the coaching staff, jobs at Redskins Park, including the GM, which makes into the millions. Thats money for Virginia, thats income to the state of Virginia. Of course they are willing to spend some money, but in this case, its ultimately to make more money long term. If Virginia makes their money out of it, its not wasteful spending, its an investment and profit maker.

Now, they cant be building stadiums every 10-15 years and expect it to work. With the cost of those stadiums, they need to stand for a while and make tax money for these govt's to make there money back plus profit. So I do admit that this is a strange circumstance.