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In Assessing Chargers Options, Do Cost Comparisons
Surfpuppy619, I am making the assumption that your comment was meant as sarcasm. The screen was only something like $40 million. A drop in the bucket in a $1.3 billion stadium.— May 25, 2011 10:34 p.m.
In Assessing Chargers Options, Do Cost Comparisons
Home Depot Center: $150 million, 27k seats. $5555 per seat Red Bull Arena: $225 million, 25k seats. $9000 per seat. University of Phoenix Stadium: $455 million, 63,400 seats. $7176 per seat. Cowboys Stadium: Cost $1.3 billion, 80000 seats. $16500 per seat. You were saying again?— May 25, 2011 8:47 p.m.
In Assessing Chargers Options, Do Cost Comparisons
As I remember it, the Oakland/Alameda BOS voted unanimously to approve the deal with the Raiders. The agreed to something like $200 million in renovations, a lease at something like $500k, that coincidentally is supposed to expire after this coming season, the one that's probably not going to happen. Part of the deal also was that Coliseum authority got to keep the PSL fees for the first 10 years, which I'm sure they used to help pay for the bonds they issued. I don't believe that the Raiders payed a relo fee when they moved back. In fact, I think the NFL called a special vote just a few days after the BOS approved their deal. I read at the time that the Raiders met league requirements to relocate and that they weren't taking away an expansion site the way the Rams did. With the 49ers already in the Bay area, they weren't even thinking about an expansion team and who else but Al Davis would take on the 49ers. If LA had ever been able to get it's collective shit together , they would have had a team. In 1999 the NFL owners approved the resolution that awarded LA the expansion franchise that eventually became the Houston Texans. There were also a couple of teams looking to move at the time. I remember one of them was the Cardinals. They were tired of playing at ASU in Sun Devil Stadium. The Raiders have probably averaged 45-55 K since they moved back. That's less than in the LA Coliseum, but in Oakland, Davis has something he never had in LA, luxury boxes. And he doesn't have to share that revenue.— May 25, 2011 6:42 p.m.
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Shaving cream, actually. Accept for the blob on her head. If you look close enough, you can see she isn't totally covered by the shaving cream. She has a white blanket around her also. My brother and I figured that out when we were teenagers. Must have worked. It sold several million copies.— May 25, 2011 6:08 p.m.
In Assessing Chargers Options, Do Cost Comparisons
I think they have played the Championship games have been played at the Home Depot Center for the last 5 yearsThey were working with a series of 2yr contracts. I'm not aware that a longer contract has been signed. I wasn'trefering to just the Championship game. Sectionals are played in various locations and next years there will also be CIF regionals. The Home Depot Center holds 27k. It cost $150 million in 2002. How much would it cost today? How much would it cost if it had been built for say a 75K capacity instead. BTW the Home Depot Center was developed by and is owned and operated by AEG.— May 25, 2011 6:01 p.m.
In Assessing Chargers Options, Do Cost Comparisons
Not sour, Don. Just don't like trolls.— May 25, 2011 4:12 p.m.
In Assessing Chargers Options, Do Cost Comparisons
Don Bauder, You keep referring to a football stadium as being used to provide only a few hours of entertainment per year. Not all football stadiums are used for football only, I'll reference back to the above mentioned Big A, Anaheim Stadium. I can recall back when Arte Moreno bought the stadium a discussion of its other uses. Prior to his purchase of the Angels , the Big A was used for quite a bit apart from baseball and football and Anaheim wanted that to continue.Somewhere around 4 million people went their every year. You're talking 500k-600k in attendance NOT related to BB or FB.There were in upwards of 150-175 event held there most years. Discounting FB and BB, that's one event every 4 or 5 days, as an average. I can remember from the news a couple of years when Billy Graham had his crusades their and another 500k were their above the other events. Several times thru the years, we've gone to watch the kids of our friends play in CIF games. Every been to a high school football game with 20-25k in attendance? It's very cool. My point? Not all stadiums sit empty 355 days of the year.— May 25, 2011 4:11 p.m.
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The basis for Native American's Sovereign Nation status is rooted in the Constitution. Over the years, there have been several challenges to it on various grounds, some making all the way to SCOTUS. All of the challenges were defeated. It would take an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.— May 25, 2011 3:42 p.m.
In Assessing Chargers Options, Do Cost Comparisons
"I do concede that the Rams and Raiders (when there) didn't draw as well as a team in that market should draw" Don Bauder, In reference to the Raiders you are correct. However you are in error concerning the Rams attendance. When the Big A was configured for football, capacity was about 65K. From the very first season until the late 80's, many, if not most game were sell outs, discounting the '87 season. I know. We were season ticket holders for many yrs. As I recall, attendance started lagging about midway through the 90 season, From 90-93 the Rams never even had a .500 team. Georgia spent very little money on aquiring good players and traded away many of the ones she already had. You have to understand that L.A./O.C. is no different than any other area when it comes to sports. With few exceptions, fans are not going to pay good money to watch a bad product. Even more so a team that loses 60% of it'd games over 5 years. That's why people quit showing up and that's why the Rams left.— May 25, 2011 3:23 p.m.
100 Worst Album Covers of All Time
We actually have the Herb Alpert and Maureen McCormick/Chris Knight albums. How weird is that. LOL— May 25, 2011 12:17 p.m.