Thursday, January 14, 2016

"St. Louis now has no NFL team, but incredibly, the city, county, and state still owe a combined $152 million to pay off the Edward Jones Dome"

Deadspin:
Missouri senator Claire McCaskill says that she is drafting legislation that would require professional sports franchises that skip town prematurely to refund the public

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To be clear, McCaskill still isn’t on the side of the righteous here. She was in favor of the public plunking down another $400 million to build a stadium to keep the Rams in St. Louis, even though there is a near-consensus in the academic literature that stadiums provide no economic benefit. In fact, her proposed legislation only has any effect at all if the public continued to finance stadiums.