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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Weirdly the private company is still paying 40% of the construction cost on the Titans stadium and that is the largest percentage of public funding for a sports facility in US history.
In Calgary the taxpayer is paying 900 million of the construction costs and the private entity is paying 40 million of the construction cost, for a split of 4% for the private entity and 96% for the taxpayer.
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There is no way to connect all these dots…it is apple and oranges. The US and Canada are different countries with different tax structures and they are 2 different venues. In addition the NFL is the largest money generating league in the US with the NHL being fifth I believe.