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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Lets bid on Wrestlemania
At the end of the day, the Olympic "dream" isn't dead if there's a desire to do it. This all came down to a process that created a huge amount of doubt, a dysfunctional bidco and city council.
We can act all argy bargy angry and do some kind of age split. But at the end of the day, this can either be a defeat or it can be a lesson learned and the city can decide if the want to do this again and use the lessons learned in this failed process.
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Saddledome wouldnt be big enough, the last major event outside of football at McMahon was Lilltih Fair.
What lesson? The councillors who wanted to vote down having a plebiscite showed their true colors and the mayor, adamant against the benefits of an arena in its own, flips 180 and throws out some hard to believe stays on the financial ROI which means the city should open their wallets wider. In the end, after all the huffing and puffing, they kept status quo, which is the same environment in the city that got them elected and gives them the best personal chance to be elected next time.
Rocking the boat for those guys in council means their neck could be on the line, and the mayor or councillors could be on the wrong end of a late Twitter vote push next time.
Bottom line, the next time the city goes for this in 2034 or whatever, there will be a whole new set of levels of government, a whole differ tn set of stakes and stakeholders, so any lessons learned here by anyone on any side of the debate won't be applicable to that situation.