This is one of those issues where I have a clear logical stance but an opposite emotional stance. I've tried so hard to be against /any/ kind of stadium subsidi

This is one of those issues where I have a clear logical stance but an opposite emotional stance. I've tried so hard to be against /any/ kind of stadium subsidies. At the college level, at the national level, at the high school level. I've tried. Honestly, I don't watch sports, I don't care about sports, I wish teachers got paid more, I wish students had more programs, I wish we had more money for infrastructure and so on and so on. I've tried with every fiber of my being to be against these stadiums being subsidized. And I read some of their citations, like this one: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/sports-jobs-taxes-are-new-stadiums-worth-the-cost/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/sports-jobs-taxes-are-new... And I couldn't agree more with a lot of it. I think the "What Can Be Done?" section is really good. I think there should be federal incentives for forcing cities to work together on their contracts with these sports teams to make their deals more fair. I don't know how that would work? But, for example, one of the downsides listed in the article is that most of the jobs created by the stadium are low-paying jobs. Not just the construction work itself but maintaining the stadium. Janitors, cashiers, mechanics, etc. But that's not an issue /with the stadium itself/ that's an issue with ALL of the country itself. It's not like the stadium not being there is going to give janitors higher paying jobs. Whether they work low-paying and hardly livable jobs for the stadium or for a contractor that has deals with Google doesn't make a difference. It's al ow paying job that can't sustain a living wage. That's not on the stadium. That's not on the city making a deal with NFL. That's an irrelevant point. If you want to make those 10,000 stadium jobs better for the community, don't choose to NOT put a stadium there. Choose to increase the quality of life for the residents of the city. But, I think what taints my perspective more than anything is being from Chicago and having lived in Texas. I know of people that are proud of being Chicagoans, that love going to Wrigleyville, that love being from the North/South based on what team they follow. I know of people in Texas that are proud of their town because of how good their football team was. I know of people who went to A&M because of its sports teams. I know of people who travel there specifically to watch a game. I've seen content from their Fightin' Texas Aggie Band that's made me feel inspired. I think part of it IS economic and I know I'm biased towards success stories. But I do think there absolutely is an emotional component to it. And if you think a government shouldn't be making emotional decisions, that's totally fine. I don't disagree with you at all. I wish I could agree with you harder, actually. I just can't put myself completely in the camp of "cities should not pay for new stadiums."