you’re right that there are always choices when it comes to public funds (school vs public transit vs orphanage). But they should be spending on public goods, not throwing MILLIONS$$ to pad profits of big multi-national corps (which top tier pro sports francshises are).

bettman’s smart enough to know he’s horribly unpopular. He doesn’t need calgarians to like him, he needs them to love their sports team enough to vote against anyone willing to risk losing the team.

It’s not a tired argument at all. Cities have limited budgets - they have to decide where that money goes, and it has been proven in every study of public arena financing to date that those deals are a loss for the city, leaving less money for things that taxpayers need and benefit from (like roads and battered…

How are the roads in edmonton? Are the schools fully funded? Enough homeless shelters? Have the firefighters gotten a raise in the last 5 years? I don’t know the answer to any of these questions, but I guarantee you can ‘do wonders to’ fix a lot of civic/social issues with $460 million.

Or, how about this: An entertainment company -like but not necessarily the Flames - uses money it currently has or can raise from private investors, builds an arena with that money, and rents out space to those who want to use the facilities. Like every other fucking business. Without public financing that contributes…

I guarantee you that thought has never occurred to any of these fucksticks.

Well, new york snowbirds will. As for year-round Miami residents, we’ll see. Do people outside of NYC care that much about Jeets?

You’d think a white man would NOT consider a black predator to be ‘one of the good ones’

It’s also funny (not funny) how much sports fans don’t want politics in their sport but are perfectly happy with public money being spent to support these private enterprises in the way of stadium deals, tax breaks and write-offs, infrastructure improvements etc for the sole benefit of team, etc.

Fans who support The Flag and The Troops should throw bananas at Larocque to let him know his disrespect for the office of President is not appreciated. (/s by the way, for the idiots scoring at home)

Isn’t (s)he also registered in two precincts? This is clearly voter fraud, right?

if only he could have outplayed a 21 year old upstart while still in his prime

3 things that make Rick Perry look smart:

watch out for gerbils too, man. They’re into some messed up shit

his phone must have auto-corrected ‘coach’ to ‘n-bomb’. Mike Tomlin is a no good coach, can’t argue with that.

are you smarter than a 4channer

+1 for correctly referring to it as a hockey sweater not a jersey

“I’m kind of done with scientific experiments for now. You know why.” - Dr. Frankenstein, after his monster busts loose.

Are those owner quotes real? They sound as intellectually void and jingoistic as I would make up for the over-the-top NASCAR redneck dipshit stereotype characters in my shitty anti-trump fanfic.

What’s the problem? They have a whole section at the back of the bus just for themselves. /s