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Originally Posted by squiggs96
It's in the next two sentences you cut out. With LA not having a team, each NFL city can blackmail the current city they are in to publicly fund the stadium, or they will move to LA. If LA gets a team, the biggest threat of a move is gone, and then the cities have more leverage to force the owners to pay for their own stadium. Because the cities usually cave, they are rewarded with a Super Bowl, which brings in thousands of people that help the economy.
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Right, I do understand that part - but every NHL arena and MLB stadium in recent history has been built with a highly disproportional amount of public funding as well... so whether LA can be used by the NFL as blackmail isn't really relevant when it amounts to the same thing in the end - mostly public funding for all NFL, MLB and NHL facilities.