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Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Where I live I have options for multiple music festivals every year, seeing the biggest acts in the business. Calgary is supposed to be such a cosmopolitan place they should certainly be able to handle a few big festivals a year? Oh wait, I forget you have no need for a big stadium where these events can play. You have Fort Calgary and Prince’s Island! Who were the headliners at your festivals again? Not quite the same as what a major city can draw.

Do you have any idea how many festivals Calgary hosts every year? We've have an extraordinarily festival rich city. I mean, it's Wikipedia, but here's a list. Major music ones include Folk Fest, Calgary International Blues Festival, International Reggae Festival, and Sled Island. You literally couldn't have picked a worse justification for new stadium > retrofitted stadium in this city.

I can’t really speak to the extreme sports set, as it isn’t my bag. All I know is our stadium is booked every quarter for some goofy X event and the locals eat the #### up. I don’t get it, but that is kind of the point, I don’t have to. These people enjoy those events and fill the place up. Who would I be to say that they shouldn’t have access to those events because I thought it was a waste of money?

Just curious, where do you live and how big is the stadium? I'm not saying we shouldn't host these events, I'm saying you don't need a brand new stadium to do it. Give me a list of extreme sports events that can only go in a new stadium and not in a renovated McMahon or somewhere else in and around Calgary. If you can't, its just another magic bean.

The only thing holding back anyone from hosting a Grey Cup in Calgary is the crap weather. Same can be said for a number of possible events. A new stadium with a roof and ability to control the climate sure would go a long way to solving that issue.

So no more Grey Cups in any outdoor Canadian stadiums hey? Not Edmonton, not Regina's new stadium, not Winnipeg's new stadium, not Montreal's, not Ottawa's new stadium, not Hamilton's new stadium? BC and Skydome every year it is then.