Vikings stadium in Duluth? We have yet to get a ‘no’
July 30, 2011 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
M. George Downs and any other local booster can give you a hundred arguments in favor of a pro sports stadium in Duluth. Continue Reading
Vikings stadium in Duluth? We have yet to get a ‘no’
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If you build it, they will come. Jim Oberstar would probably support this.
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Funny how all of a sudden it’s taken for granted that tax payers are going to gift the Vikings with factory to pursue their business in and the only question is where?
Why are we building a stadium on the backs of the poor and the elderly?
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The residents of Green Bay own the Packers. That is why there is a stadium there. A stadium in Duluth? Raise the $700-800 million to buy the Vikings, then go looking for another $1 billion to build the stadium, and by the time you are through Duluth will be in bankruptcy or begging the state for a bailout. There must be more pertinent news than this story to take up space on the pages of the Tribune.
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Pro football is a private, commercial, for-profit enterprise. It might be reasonable for taxpayers to pay for a highway exit for a private enterprise, but not to build the whole darn venue – or even a portion of it. A billionaire owner and millionaire players can certainly pay for their workplace, and lease it out to other users. Who can even afford to go to a game, anyway? Existing government facilities and infrastructure are in need of repair, rebuilding or replacement. Why are we even thinking about taxpayer funding of any kind, for this? Heck, the Vikes don’t even have any knd of legal obligation to stay here and play here. If they get some other sucker to build their stadium, they will go there. Pro sports is a parasitic activity which produces no kind of useful good thing for the public and only serves to distract people from legitimate issues of the day. People can natter on and on about who has the best arm and the best eye, but think a debt and a deficit are the same thing. feh.
tom koehler
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Thomas…..I agree with you totally. It amazes me, and scares me a bit too, that you’ve already got 5 thumbs down. I’ve found that those enamoured with sports tend to lose any objective thought as to what is truly important in life when it has anything to do with sports. They will talk about the “vikes” or any team of there liking for hours while issues that are of much more importance to them, their family and society in general are left undiscussed.
The recent Minnesota budget fiasco was finally solved and the ink hardly dry on the agreement and stadium proponents started in on this issue again the very next day. It’s consumed them aparantly that we should all pay for their very expensive hobby.
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