Motorin'

Unless the lease terms are profitable... The 49ers pay 25 million per year over 40 years. The Vikings pay 8.5M + 3% interest per year over 30 years.

lol, I didn't think I'd be googling interest rates for commercial new construction projects this morning.

San Francisco is locked into 40 year lease at 25M per year, while the public subsidized 114M. So it will literally be over 800M in profit over 40 years. I don't know if tax breaks came from the deal though/

These numbers are meaningless without an additional column that shows any lease totals that publicly funded stadiums receive in turn.

And so perhaps the best way to keep the Bills in Buffalo is to have the public build a new stadium and lock the Bills into a long term lease with a 1B poison pill. It's all about the details. How much per year would the Bills pay to lease the stadium vs. yearly loan payments on construction costs?

Or Seth Wickersham, who has a book about the Patriots dynasty coming out soon, is hoping to generate sales from his new book?

And who would be surprised if the reports were manufactured 100% just to get clicks?

Terry seems to have put public ownership of the stadium on the table. I don't see why the state / county can't partner on taking out a 30 year mortgage, and locking the Bills into a 30 year lease.

Maybe. It all depends on how much the Bills would be willing to pay per year to lease the stadium and the cost difference between an open air and dome. PSE might not want to pay twice as much to lease a dome, and the added events probably wouldn't come close to covering the difference.

I think we have to look at this like a mortgage and rental situation. The public can put a 20% down payment down on the stadium. Take out a 30 year mortgage at 2.5% interest. Lock the Bills into a 30 year lease with an annual fee that has a profit margin built in. This can be a win win and become a revenue generator for the country and state instead of corporate welfare.

Would it necessarily raise taxes if the stadium was publicly owned? Why can't the construction costs incurred by a state / county partnership turn a profit? Not just leasing it the the Bills, but concerts and events?

The fact that Terry put public ownership of the stadium on the table is encouraging. A combination of State and county funds could pay for 100% of a 500M new stadium and then charge the Bills 25M per year on a 25 year lease and recoup their expenses.

Exactly, in today's dollars the cost to build Heinz Field would be around $430M. No way they should even consider plans any more expensive than that.

Blah blah blah. Put words in my mouth that I never said and ignore the fact that FIFA has disgusting lied about the revenue that the woman's world cup has generated. 40% of 1.85 billion is 740 million dollars that the woman's world cup generated in TV revenue.

A billion people tuned in the watch the Women's World Cup in 2019. According to Fifa, the women should be paid less because they generate less revenue. Ok, but they count $0 in revenue for the women from their TV audience. The tv contract in total was nearly 2 billion dollars. The women generated 40% of the total tv audience, but FIFA pretends like that counts as zero percent of the 2 billion generated revenue, and pay them 10 times less.

The men's union explains very well why this is bunk. The women were never given a choice of the same pay structure. Bait and switch. Their law suit is going to prove it. Lame. Why should Rapino's brand worth mean she should shut up about a pay structure that pays the women on the national team nearly 10 times less then the men's team if they won the world cup? Let's circle back after their appeal is heard and I'll give you all of the logical reasons why your assessment is way off base.

The women still get hosed. Fifa sells the broadcast tv rights to the men's and women's world cup for one bundled fee. The tv revenue is a massive amount of the overall revenue. Fifa places 100% of the revenue from the tv contract in the profit totals for the men's world cup, denying the women hundreds of million of revenue in their column... And because you haven't heard Rapino advocate for equal pay hardly means anything at all about her recent actions. I didn't hear the Misses get up and go to Pilates this morning. Doesn't mean she didn't get her work out in.

$300 million for public ownership of the Sabres ala Green Bay would work.

There was one window in Bills history in the 90's where this was true. But we are kidding ourselves if we don't admit the negative effect those playing conditions had on every team without a QB named Josh or Jim.

Yeah, but if it doesn't there are newer construction technologies that keep the wind out. It's almost like Rich was constructed in a way that doubles wind speed on the field.

This is pretty funny: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/are-you-allowed-to-criticize-simone-biles-a-decision-tree

They look really good. But I have faith in our team. Especially if they can stay onside before scoring!

Awesome win in the Quarter Finals today, Megan Rapino smashing home the walk off, game winning penalty kick in extra time. One game away from a potential rematch with Sweden, who took a knee with the US team in their group stage victory. I guess woke politics are good for the Swedes? No, they won because they were faster, stronger, more aggressive and dominated the midfield. The US coach looked like a deer in headlights. Looking forward to a second crack. Just have to beat Canada.

She did! I don't think she'll appreciate being used for anyone's political narrative though.