Thursday, November 1, 2007

A cynical observer

A few weeks ago, Mercury News sportswriter Tim Kawakami had some interesting observations on the San Francisco 49ers' Santa Clara stadium proposal.

As he wrote in his post "The 49ers’ Ashley Lelie: A weird symbol of a confusing franchise",

The 49ers are asking for about $200M in public money (which I believe will probably be jacked up to $250M at some point), and yet they can just go ahead and say, well, why don’t we just purchase and operate a theme park while we’re at it?

This makes sense? To whom? Perhaps in the near future the Yorks can just ask Santa Clara for $2 billion and then decide to buy SeaWorld, too. Lots of syngery there, I’m sure.


I hope you'll follow the link above and read the post for yourself (the stadium issue is about halfway through the post.)

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