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Originally Posted by stone hands
Even if they did lose money, why do we, the taxpayers, care? Should people care more about adding an extra 20 minutes to their drive to the game, or raising 800 million dollars? Seems pretty obvious to me
The city of Calgary and the province of Alberta isn't here to make the flames more money. They also don't HAVE to contribute anything. Gillette stadium was built 100% out of Robert Kraft's pocket, 22 miles outside of Boston, and the patriots seem to be doing OK. The flames are not the patriots, but they aren't the coyotes either
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That's a whole different debate. I was responding to a poster who gave a why not type of response to a sarcastic suggestion that the arena be located in Balzac or Spruce Meadows.