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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
The thing is you are arguing against yourself, the more you say that the Flames need a new arena to make more money, the more it makes me think they should pay for it. Yes they will make more money, and its just like a regular business expanding to increase productivity.
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You aren't paying attention. One of the teams that will jump them in revenue generation did so on the back of a new arena and a sweetheart of an arena deal. Public funding is a requirement for building arenas and stadiums in Canada, especially in the smaller cities. Private funding has proven to be a failure for anyone who tries it, with one exception. The only privately funded arena in Canada that has not gone bust and forced a sale of the team is the ACC. Toronto is kind of in a unique situation, having a population five to eight times the population of Calgary, and also having a naming rights deal that paid for the construction cost of the arena many times over. Think on that. The naming rights paid for three Air Canada Centres, with change left over. And the Flames have to find a way to compete with revenue opportunities like that?