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[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Raiders and Rams stadiums each cost over a billion and have been built in the last 5ish years. Stadiums should and can be cheap but the NFL owners aren’t doing that. Vegas is also tearing down the Tropicana to build a massive and expensive baseball stadium in its please with a smaller Tropicana on the site as well

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, plus 10/16 stadiums on the Wikipedia page for most expensive ones are in the US.

[–] derf82@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Funny you mention those stadiums. SoFi Stadium, where the Rams play, was 100% financed by the Rams owner.

Allegiant Stadium, where the Raiders play, did get public funding, but it was capped at $750 million while the Raiders paid $1.1B.

I don’t like public stadium funding, either, but outside of Olympic spending, cities are mot routinely paying over $1B in public dollars for a single stadium.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kroenke should lay his own shit, he’s made billions ripping off fans and married a Walton, you know, the family that makes billions refusing to pay their workers fairly and makes the towns they go into finance the building of the Walmart because they “create jobs” shitty jobs that still require government aid to live on but jobs I guess

[–] derf82@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Did I say they shouldn’t?