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Originally Posted by Incogneto
I sent this email to a friend in Edmonton who was laughing at us Flames fans. This is what the bid says, people:
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Holy, even YOU are not looking at the bid? Just hearing what HAS to be said, and not what IS being said? Did you think the bid was going to just come out and say 'WE ARE GOING TO BUILD A NEW ARENA' and blow away leverage with the City and the Flames?
Look at the bid. Look hard. Here are the facts: 25M Dedicated to 'Saddledome Upgrades', and $150M dedicated to a new 5000 seat arena to replace the Corral. Nenshi even said 'There is no need for a small arena in this city. This will be replaced with a new event center.'. PLUUUUUUS, the curling was marked as TBA. Do you think a bid like this isn't going to have all details nailed down?
Here is what the bid says to me:
- 'SaddleDome Upgrades' + 'New Arena' = $175M. Which happens to be ALMOST 1/3 of the cost of a new events center.
- Bid 1/3, City 1/3, Flames 1/3, Arena gets built.
- Curling is at the Corral.
- If you ask the Flames brass, they would 100% be for this bid.
- The Arena 100% gets built if this bid wins. If it doesnt, then who knows.
- This is exactly what I have been saying for 3 years. Everything right now is feet dragging between the city and the Flames for this bid. Its all about getting some Federal money in for the arena. Free money for both sides.
I wish people could understand the WHAT in what is being said, and read deeper than just the ink on the paper. This bid means 100% an arena is built. WITHOUT the bid, its gonna be a struggle.
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All of this is your interpretation. There is nothing concrete in the proposal speaking directly to this. In fact, the proposal says just the opposite. You are deducing that this is what is going on without anything definitive to support your claims. What you're suggesting is a possibility, but it would be clearly stupid on the part of the Calgary organizing committee to risk the games bid on such a sheltered proposal for a major cog of the games themselves.
When putting a bid together you have to be very clear what you are going to do and what facilities are going to be available for the games. Not having a state of the art arena for such a major event is just a massive hole in the proposal. I'll say this again. There is no way the bid committee would go forward without some level of certainty of what facilities the games would rely upon. They are not going to submit a bid for the 2026 Olympic Games without a clear schedule of where and how each sport is going to be presented. The IOC would be expecting that, and would not be happy to hear that there is a - nudge nudge, wink wink - "deal" being made for another major venue. They want to know how and where you are doing things, and don't give a rip about the backroom deals going on between CSEC and City of Calgary.