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Originally Posted by RM14
Right, and the Stampede just isn't the best fit to run that building. They are not motivated to perform the same level of service because they are not accountable to anyone but themselves. If they don't make a profit or do substandard level of service and the Flames lose season ticket holders as a result, what leverage do the flames have to make the Stampede board improve? Zero.
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I completely agree. That's a big part of why they sold them those rights 22 years ago. I'm simply pointing out that operating rights were a valuable asset and I'm happy that that valuable asset got given to the Stampede at the outset instead of to private hands. As a Flames fan, I'm also happy that the Stampede sold them to the Flames. Everybody won in my mind.
I hope I'm not confusing you or anyone into thinking I wish the Stampede still had and would continue to have operating rights in any new building. I don't at all. The point of the whole operating rights thing was merely to call out New Era when he said this:
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Originally Posted by New Era
When people suggest they build back on the grounds they just don't understand the board or what they are like to deal with.
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That sentiment is rooted in a misunderstanding of who owned (or "owns" in the case of parking today) the things that the Flames coveted.