[Joe Pendleton]

The Jacksonville Jaguars want an undisclosed sum from Jacksonville taxpayers to again redo their stadium.

https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/article/ ... renovation

-the Jaguars current lease goes through 2030
-they don't want a new stadium. One proposal floated is to take the suite and upper bowl levels out on each sides and replace them.
-no roof talk though I think they had another lightning delayed game this year.
-they pointed to SoFi and Allegiant as benchmarks and justification of the request.
-multiple subtle relocation hints were dropped.
-the media session was held on Khan's 300ft yacht.

looks like the BVI's.. Tortola maybe.. God, i miss it over there

[Hacksaw]

Alfred, who took out my yacht?

[RamDog]

You have many kindred spirits in the U.K. They hate him, mostly, and now with this move they're bitter, too.

Yeah that was my first thought…”Oh great, more people to hate Silent Stan”

[St. Loser Fan]

[St. Loser Fan]

[RedAlice]

Everyone should stop having fun. Immediately!

[Hacksaw]

Exactly Red. There would seem to be more important and better focused legislation to fuss over than a few tax breaks for stadium construction.

[St. Loser Fan]

Everyone should stop having fun. Immediately!

Fair point. But the explosive growth in wealth of these leagues are primarily built upon the taxpayer money being given to these already rich men to build their palaces to excess.

For all of my irrational hatred of Stan, at least he built SoFi with his own money and I will give him props for that. Plus, if he'd been forced to stay in St. Louis it would have been dumb for this dump of a city to give him $700 million+ in local, county and state funds for a venue used 10-15 days a year.

At least with hockey/basketball arenas you can justify public money for those venues as they can be used 60-180 days a year for various events. Or baseball stadiums with 81 games a year. Then if things are structured correctly that investment can pay off. Here in St. Louis the city owns the garage attached to the arena and pretty much every parking lot/garage within 4 blocks. Rough back-of-envelope math says the city pulls in $20 million a year in revenue/taxes, so you can justify the expense.

Plus now that costs for an NFL stadium has ballooned to $1 billion, $2 billion or more it's an even worse use of taxpayer funds.

[RedAlice]

Fair point. But the explosive growth in wealth of these leagues are primarily built upon the taxpayer money being given to these already rich men to build their palaces to excess. .

You know what? I am never going to be a Billionaire. I am already in my 50s and that opportunity has well passed me over.

But you know what else? I am getting extreme pleasure from enjoying what at least one Billionaire built: SoFi Stadium and our Rams SB win.

I don't care about what the rich do with their money. I care about what I enjoy, and I enjoy what is happening now. Here.

ETA: I skipped over the tax payer thing, as it doesn't apply here.

[RedAlice]

Exactly Red. There would seem to be more important and better focused legislation to fuss over than a few tax breaks for stadium construction.

IF I read that correctly - part of the issue is the Redskins sexual allegations? And how the NFL dealt with them?

I am also tired of sexual allegations being used as a weapon.