NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

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Same thing in Dallas. The stadium is about half an hour from downtown Dallas if there's no traffic.

In many cases the only room you can find to build something is away from the city the team is associated with.
 
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moontayle_sl said:
Same thing in Dallas. The stadium is about half an hour from downtown Dallas if there's no traffic.

In many cases the only room you can find to build something is away from the city the team is associated with.
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Wasn't that always the case? Wasn't the stadium JerryWorld replaced in Arlington too?
 
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No, that was in Irving, which is like ~15m from downtown. Some early plans had them building in Fair Park which is literally right outside downtown but the Mayor at the time wouldn't buy in to Jerry's plan. Hence, Arlington.
 
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If/when the Bengals need a new stadium I wouldn't be shocked if they relocate away from downtown. Most of the ticket holders don't live in the city and find going downtown a huge pain in the ass. Pretty much exactly like Atlanta all the season tickets were held by the wealthy white people north of the city and didn't care for having to go downtown and all the hassle of the downtown experience just to watch a game.
 
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The Dallas mayor was a fucktard. Would have Jerryworld at fair park and all them poors finally out of a primo real estate area.
 
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Tenks_sl said:
If/when the Bengals need a new stadium I wouldn't be shocked if they relocate away from downtown. Most of the ticket holders don't live in the city and find going downtown a huge pain in the ass. Pretty much exactly like Atlanta all the season tickets were held by the wealthy white people north of the city and didn't care for having to go downtown and all the hassle of the downtown experience just to watch a game.
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I don't see this likely happening at any point in time. It'll be extremely hard for them to ever get public funding again.
 
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Burnesto_sl said:
I don't see this likely happening at any point in time. It'll be extremely hard for them to ever get public funding again.
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They still get tons of public money. That new scoreboard and replay board are bought and paid for by the tax payers simply so PBS isn't the tallest structure or whatever shit Brown waived.
 
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Downtown Cincy is actually worth going to now though. And tons of [white] people are starting to move downtown because of it. I don't see that happening.
 
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Besides, as John Oliver so gleefully pointed out, there's so many provisions built into that stadium deal that Brown would be crazy to do anything to disrupt it.
 
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moontayle_sl said:
No, that was in Irving, which is like ~15m from downtown. Some early plans had them building in Fair Park which is literally right outside downtown but the Mayor at the time wouldn't buy in to Jerry's plan. Hence, Arlington.
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Oh thats right... been too long since I have been to the Dallas area.
 
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Alex_sl said:
Downtown Cincy is actually worth going to now though. And tons of [white] people are starting to move downtown because of it. I don't see that happening.
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Attendance is still pretty bad. They continue to have troubles filling up the stadium despite being a consistent winner lately.
 
Alex

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Because most Bengals fans are like me and are no longer impressed with being a "consistent winner". I doubt moving the stadium to Mason or some shit would change a thing.
 
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One of the worst business decisions of all time.

John Elway once passed on a chance for a big stake in the Denver Broncos - NFL

The document was dated Sept. 23, 1998, and it contained, at least in retrospect, John Elway's golden ticket to a lifetime fortune.

The deal: Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen would give Elway the right to buy 10 percent of the Broncos for $15 million. Bowlen would also give him the option to buy another 10 percent of the franchise by forgoing the deferred salary Bowlen owed him on the condition Elway would become a special assistant to Bowlen, which would eventually lead to a COO job. That total deferred salary? About $21 million.

But there was even more that made the deal a no-lose proposition. If Elway wasn't happy with his investment, he could sell back his interest, two to five years later, for $5 million more than his original purchase price plus 8 percent interest a year. Since the Broncos weren't making cash calls, it was essentially free money.
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Yeah hes not broke but he had the option to turn something like 35 million into 400. That is generations worth of money.
He has made plenty of bad investments since then.
 
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Elway is a fucking faggot.

Colts should have made him stay and dared his fuckass to go play baseball.
 
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