It doesn’t really effect me very much, other than my taxes going down.
There are a lot of butthurt people around here though!!!
I have not seen the specifics of the financing, but STAR bonds are usually a pretty good way of financing. The new entity needs to be able to produce the revenue to pay the bonds, if not, they are responsible for making up the difference, not the taxpayers.
I’m sure that something will come up that will shift more to the taxpayers. Just a gut feeling. At least it’s not Johnson County.
On the upside…many of the announcers who have said they are in Kansas will now be correct.
I have no problem on taxpayer funding 60% as long as the taxpayers get 60% of the seats in all sections and the revenue from them until the bonds are paid off
After a team wins a couple of super bowls, the average taxpayer can’t afford a ticket. I’m not sure what they are going to want to charge for parking, but it’s $60 today I think. And I’m not sure but I believe that it’s the city or county that maintains the parking lot.
Almost certainly justified.
One of the sticking points in the most recent negotiations is that Jackson County wanted some parking revenue and revenue from the non sporting events (concerts, etc.) and the teams and their special interests cried to the Legislature.
That’s what sucks about sports teams and public funding. I think that the city should get the bulk of the parking revenues for everything. It’s bullshit to have the taxpayers pay to keep the parking lot in decent shape and painted and then give all the money to the team.
What is with Missouri? This is the second NFL franchise to bail on the state. When the Giants and later the Jets left New York, at least they still had the Bills.
Since I don’t live in Missouri, I don’t follow their state government much. But I think the state kind of got burned a little bit with the Rams
The voters got burned out.
The last proposal was so bad I labeled it as “hold my beer”.
Did something get chopped off?
I fixed it. With the Rams. I seem to think that folks in Kansas City may have paid some money to them. Maybe not, but there were lots of issues back then
I don’t know the exact details of where the funding came from, but the bottom line is that they broke ground on the St Louis dome in 1993 before they had any commitment because they assumed St Louis was a lock for an expansion team. In fairness, that was a general consensus, but it was still dumb to do that. Then, when St Louis did not get an expansion team, they were in a much weaker negotiating position and had to give the Rams a sweetheart deal to relocate to St. Louis in 1995. That included the provision that allowed the Rams to bail after twenty years if the dome was not in the top 25% of NFL stadiums, which no objective person could have said was the case in 2014 when that twenty-year period elapsed.
Shorter bottom line: Any issues which St Louis and Missouri had with the Rams experience they brought on themselves.
Just with the early feedback…I wish they would have moved to Omaha or someplace else. For whatever reason there is an ongoing “border war”. It’s not as in years past, where the city and state would give companies great tax breaks so that would relocate…in some cases literally across State Line Road, whcih created zero new jobs or tax revenues. But this is just reigniting those fires. I’m glad I ride my bike into Missouri more often than I drive there. They might start shooting cars with Kansas tags.
I was a pilot for TWA and it kept that name until 2001 when AA bought us. I remember going to the auto show there in early ‘99! Kurt Warner is a local hero!
That ass beat my Titans in the SB, screw that guy!!!
Hey! Your Titans will get 1st draft choice! Big Win!
Ya, but will they use it well?
But I do like the Cam Ward pick