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FL legislature refuses to aid Miami Dolphins - fullmetal - 05-04-2013
I can hear Garvin's sigh of relief and subsequent satisfaction from over here. That was going to be a sizable chunk of taxpayer money...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/fla-legislature-refuses-aid-miami-013800101--nfl.html
Re: FL legislature refuses to aid Miami Dolphins - Hurlburt88 - 05-04-2013
in the meantime I sit here in minnesota hearing about project delays and failing pull-tab sales.Â
Re: FL legislature refuses to aid Miami Dolphins - Cadet84 - 05-04-2013
Wow Garvin, I'm impressed by your restraint! ;D
"Avaricious plutocratic ... swine" love it!
Re: FL legislature refuses to aid Miami Dolphins - Nan3cy - 05-04-2013
I am trying to think of a time when I've seen someone called a swine in the paper, and can't come up with it. Breaking new ground, Garvin...
Re: FL legislature refuses to aid Miami Dolphins - Bruce Wang - 05-04-2013
In terms of ridiculous public funding of a pro sports team, everything pales in comparison to what the Bengals pulled off with Hamilton County. Basically, the County paid for a new stadium and pick up all the operating costs and the Bengals get a sweatheart lease deal, get the parking revenue and usually put a crap product on the field.Â
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, this will keep the Bengals in Cincinnati. On the other hand, part of me wishes the Bengals would move so I could sever emotional ties to this hopeless franchise and its idiot owner. Actually Mike Brown is not an idiot. He's a good businessman. I'm sure the Bengals are among the most profitable franchises because of this deal and how cheap he is with players and costs (other than putting his entire family on the payroll).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704461304576216330349497852.html
Re: FL legislature refuses to aid Miami Dolphins - Kathy - 05-22-2013
NFL owners are adding to the pressure to fix the stadium issue no Super Bowl in South Florida before 2017, and probably not until Miami gets a new facility. Owners awarded the 2016 game to Santa Clara (in the new, as-yet-unfinished 49er stadium), bringing the championship game back to the Bay Area for the first time since Stanford Stadium hosted it in 1985. The 2017 Super Bowl will be in Houston both votes were rejections of Miami bids.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/bay-bowl-san-francisco-to-host-50th-super-bowl-1.1291675
Quote:Multibillionaire Dolphins owner Stephen Ross contends $350 million in stadium improvements are badly needed, but he doesn't want to pay for them by himself. Nor does he want a scaled-down renovation of the 26-year-old facility.
"I suspect there's a couple of state reps down in Miami-Dade County where I live who are going to look at this and realize this was a brobdingnagian mistake," South Florida bid committee chairman Rodney Barreto said. "We had the better bid. I could just look at the body language from the NFL staff. It's a shame. We may not see another Super Bowl for another 10 years."
Ross said South Florida "won't stop trying" to get one.