[St. Loser Fan]

This guy compares the new St. Louis soccer stadium to SoFi as he feels it's the gold standard for all sports venues.

https://www.sportico.com/business/real- ... 234711188/

When fans walk into Citypark on Saturday for St. Louis City SC’s home MLS debut, few will likely draw comparisons to SoFi Stadium, where the onetime St. Louis Rams now play.

SoFi Stadium, in Inglewood, Calif., cost more than $5 billion to build; Citypark came in under $500 million. SoFi can expand to seat 100,000; Citypark hosts just over 20,000. SoFi has regularly been referred to as an interplanetary vehicle; Citypark was designed to fit into a midwestern city’s Downtown West neighborhood.

But!, inside those two venues—deep inside—there are more similarities than fans might expect, according to AmpThink founder Bill Anderson. He would know, given his company helped each team integrate key tech functions, from stadium Wi-Fi to concourse TVs to scoreboard controls.

[rams1974]

This guy compares the new St. Louis soccer stadium to SoFi as he feels it's the gold standard for all sports venues.

Boy, this guy is leaning into the passive-aggressiveness, even for a Midwesterner. Why else would he point out the cost? Yes, I'm sure Sofi STL Edition was built for 10% of the cost; sight unseen, I can pretty much guarantee it is not even close to Sofi.

I clicked the article. Having Wi-Fi at your stadium is not "next gen" tech. It is current to expiring gen tech.

[St. Loser Fan]

Boy, this guy is leaning into the passive-aggressiveness, even for a Midwesterner. Why else would he point out the cost? Yes, I'm sure Sofi STL Edition was built for 10% of the cost; sight unseen, I can pretty much guarantee it is not even close to Sofi.

I clicked the article. Having Wi-Fi at your stadium is not "next gen" tech. It is current to expiring gen tech.

Sorry if the article felt like an insult as nothing will ever come close to SoFi ever again./s

Admittedly the article wasn't written the best but I think he should have framed it more as Citypark moves the bar for new MLS stadiums the way that SoFi did for NFL stadiums going forward. He should have tempered his youthful excitement.

[rams1974]

Sorry if the article felt like an insult as nothing will ever come close to SoFi ever again./s

Admittedly the article wasn't written the best but I think he should have framed it more as Citypark moves the bar for new MLS stadiums the way that SoFi did for NFL stadiums going forward. He should have tempered his youthful excitement.

What is up with all the apologies, sarcastic though they are? Well, I humbly accept your apology and all is forgiven. /s x2

Re MLS, I need to dig up the column from a few years back that basically said "We're not saying MLS is a Ponzi scheme, but if you were running a Ponzi scheme, you'd be doing what MLS is doing [re expansion fees]."

Edit: found this. The article I was thinking of was from the old Deadspin but this is Forbes so you know you can trust it
https://www.fieldofschemes.com/2019/11/ ... of-sports/

Edit #2: While not a St Louisan myself, I have gone to St Louis on 5-6 occasions for Rams games. It was only during the stadium kerfluffle did it get floated, in support of the riverfront stadium, that the supposed mania of soccer fandom in St Louis could also be satisfied - which I never even saw a little evidence of, while visiting, reading the StL Poor-Disgrace, etc. So when I think of St Louis and MLS I am a little side-eye and "Yeah.. St Louis, soccer hotbed .. sure."

[St. Loser Fan]

[Elvis]

[rams1974]

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/viki ... er-report/

Study concludes that 7 year old US Bank stadium needs a whole buncha money soon ..

[St. Loser Fan]

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/viki ... er-report/

Study concludes that 7 year old US Bank stadium needs a whole buncha money soon ..

Please tell me they have a "top tier" clause. How does St. Louis Vikings sound? /jk

Seriously though this is a non-story.
1) the stadium debt was so well structured they could pay it off.
2) Minnesota will have no problem ponying up the funds to do maintenance to the venue.
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/pol ... b1cde13538
Sounds like standard stuff when a stadium hits a certain age. Plus they had one of the roughest winter in decades up there this year. Probably needs some TLC after the weather they've had.

Next year they'll say the MB Dome in Atlanta needs X, Y and Z done to it.

[Elvis]

Not NFL but Allegiant getting some company:

[St. Loser Fan]

Not NFL but Allegiant getting some company:

Looks like the A’s will play a few seasons in the minor league park there.

Some mentioned Allegiant as an option and I chuckled at the thought of the Raiders playing on part dirt fields again.