In the 21 years L.A. was without a professional football team, 22 new stadiums were built for 23 teams, with an average of $250 million apiece of taxpayer money for those stadiums.
It was a massive public subsidy for the billionaire team owners, that generated little or no public good.
Since the 1980's the NFL has blackmailed cities into giving them tax breaks, guaranteed attendance contracts, and public-financed stadiums.
They could do this because they could always move to another city and find a ready fan base. Always.
Earlier this year the NFL owners caved to pressure from President Trump regarding football players' silent protests against racial injustice.
Yesterday the billionaire owners flip-flopped.
NFL fans are turning off their TV's and not buying tickets.
Why? Because football players dared to take a knee during the national anthem.
Pigskin Latitudes
By Julius Hungeski
(Apologies to Jim Morrison)
When the referees conspire with cameras
And their sullen and aborted
Flags breed tiny monsters,
True football is dead.
I love watching shitbags like him make asses of themselves in public. He must have taken lessons from the DNC-Hillary Clinton School of Blaming Everyone Else For Your Problems. Too funny.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2017/11/01/papa-johns-ceo-blam...
If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL,or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2017
A friend of mine back in MN shared this article on Facebook this morning:
(Three years ago on the eve of the Super Bowl I published this at TOP. Thought I'd re-publish here today, in light of how the cross-section of fascism includes the massive pro sports industry residing squarely at the heart of corporatism and militarism. NFL coaches Rex Ryan and Bill Belichick are on record having publicly "endorsed" Trump, and the Fraternal Order of Police swung their weight behind him too.
