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Originally Posted by Muta
My man, the idea was just fine. It still is, and know many people still that believe that as well. The only thing wrong with CalgaryNEXT was it's execution, not the design itself. The design (conceptual, which is what it was), the location... all worked just fine. The presentation was another ballgame, and one that I won't comment on anymore.
I'm not saying all the Stamps problems would be rectified by simply having a roofed stadium. I'm saying it would help attract the casual fan, and several posts have already been made in this thread indicating as such.
And if you think live football is the worst sports to watch, the most profitable league in the world and millions and millions of fans would disagree with you.
Sorry, but it is revolutionary in the design world. Rarely are these facilities built that close together, let alone at the same time.
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The idea is fatally flawed. Consider the following:
The city wants a field house. It can spend $200 million on it, and it can be publicly accessible 24/7/365.
The CSEC wants a free stadium, by piggybacking off the field house. That $200 million now goes to a facility the public will be restricted from using from anywhere between 30- ??? days. Because after all, the biggest proponents of this have made it clear they wanna use this facility to lure bigger concerts, monster jam, whatever other big events, so it's difficult to say exactly how many public days will be lost, but the Stamps usage of the facility alone will obviously make it less publicly accessible.
Now, as a taxpayer, is that seriously acceptable to you? Because it's totally unacceptable to me. The CSEC wants a free stadium for the Stamps, and saw this as the path to doing it. Good for them. We shouldn't be so stupid as to capitulate. This is a bad idea, irrespective of the design of it, or the renderings. It's a bad deal for the city, period. Great deal for the CSEC no doubt.
As far as the NFL, it's profitable off the TV deal alone. If you haven't been paying attention the NFL had to change its blackout policies because teams are struggling to meet the NFL mandated ticket sales levels to avoid a blackout. Live gate for the NFL is declining, the TV deal is keeping things humming financially, but even that will be interesting to watch in the next round of deals. The casual fan should be thrilled to see a virtually unbeatable Stamps team right now, but they aren't. You can't seriously thinking moving inside and charging more for the product is going to lure more casuals in than a winning team could? That's a massive stretch. Casual CFL fans are better known as hardcore NFL fans. And they are going to few if any CFL games past September, and definitely not for the playoffs which are on Sundays. So the weather means nothing to them, their preferred product being on at the same time is why they don't care about the CFL past a certain point