2023 NFL offseason thread

Guess we know why he didn’t play at Michigan.

 

Is this The Onion in disguise?

 

Meanwhile, weirdo humans are the only species that drinks another species' milk.

 

Probably because he attended Penn State before transferring

 

The things NFL GM-types will obsess about, and the things they'll ignore makes me understand why they are so terrible at evaluating QBs and why there are so few black coaches in the league.

 

This seems slightly exaggerated at best, but likely just a fucking sham

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/03/01/report-jalen-carter-was-present-at-teammates-fatal-crash-misled-police-about-it/

Seems like a modest red flag. The Georgia program has entered joke territory.

 

Teams from throughout the Upper Midwest come there to play.

https://www.usbankstadium.com/events/detail/us-bank-stadium-baseball-games-2

The Vikings tried to weasel out of having the stadium host such games, and it had to be reconfigured slightly, but that was one of the conditions for getting public money. Stuff like this (which very few people know about) is why I just laugh at people contending that stadiums like this "only get used seven or eight times a year."

 

It’s still a waste of billions of public monies. Basic Econ 1, make a business cover expenses on their own, otherwise it should not be in business.

 

Not necessarily disagreeing.

How do you feel about airports? Should the airlines, which are billion-dollar industries, foot the bill for the venue that enables them to make billions?

 

Shouldn’t the header read Lied to police?

 

What do other Big 10 teams do for baseball froma reas with similar climates such as Wisconsin do in the early part of the college baseball season?

As for your question about airports.they are typically funded by the users through rents from the concessionaires,parking and the airlines.

I think the last major airport constructed from the ground up was in Denver. This was a huge project. The airport covers 57 square miles. The airport was financed by concessions, airline rents and a hidden tax on airline tickets (it was not broken out in the cost of a ticket).

The hidden tax is not typically used in constructing airports because of the political blowback. The tax almost sank the referendum on the Denver airport but was necessary to secure financing. Most airport expansions around the country rely on contracts with the airlines and the additional concessions. The reluctance of local authorities to impose such a tax is one reason more greenfield airports are not built. It is cheaper to expand. I think the recent Denver airport expansion was funded by airlines and the concessions.

Coors Field and Empower Field, which were built in the same time frame, were financed almost entirely by a sales tax that in Metro Denver paid. Concession and parking revenues go to the owners, who pay a nominal rent.