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Originally Posted by shermanator
If you can find some people in Calgary who are willing to drop that kind of coin on a team that plays 9 games a year, then please do, because I'm sure this city would love to have a state of the art stadium. Until then, you will have to deal with a 50 year old stadium with crappy concourses. It sucks but it is the reality that the team faces right now.
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Exactly.
The amount that McMahon is used for anything that holds more the a couple thousand people, is 9 Stamps games, plus 1 exhibition, plus playoffs, plus Dinos games, and maybe a CIS playoff game or too. Maybe a high school final, a Colt game or two. With the FieldTurf now in at Shouldice highscohol and the Colts can play there theoretically. So 25 days a year, at very most?
Yes, there may be a few more concerts events that come to town if a new retractable/domed stadium, and it would be something for people who care about that to beat their chests about in civic pride, but thats a lot of coin to drop up front for not a lot of financial return or even potential return. Taxpayers would have a tough time to foot any of that bill, no way the U of C can, and any other investors would have to see some sort of return.
Ivariably, when Stamps tickets go up 30% at least along with personal licenses, people would complian about that too.