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Originally Posted by nik-
Except it is. Because the Flames conveniently ignore all the remediation and infrastructure costs. I get it, you're a shill, but don't try to bull#### here.
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Needed to be quoted.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Lets be honest, a few years back when there was a real threat of the team actually leaving Calgary, the owners hung on and stayed on until the le ague forced some level of salary control, and from that point on they've played in the dome and while they probably aren't losing money, they probably don't have a scooge mcdunk type of vault full of money with a pool full of coins.
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Lets be honest, the City also made concessions to keep the team here, and they're lucky they did, otherwise the ownership group might be finding themselves losing millions of dollars in some southern state right now.
But that was then and this is now. Now, CSEC seem less about community welfare and more about maximizing the amount of money they can extract from the city and their fan base. Sad, because this city has provided them one of the best markets to own a sports team and also provided many of them the opportunity to make their millions/billions of dollars to afford to buy those teams.