Well, it's a pretty simple calculus for the owners. You're going to get people to pay for my stadium, Mr. Politician, or else losing this thing that millions o

Well, it's a pretty simple calculus for the owners. You're going to get people to pay for my stadium, Mr. Politician, or else losing this thing that millions of people in this city love is going to be, fairly or unfairly, blamed on you. It's of course gross and hilariously stupid given that every professional sports team owner is a billionaire, but most of those marrow suckers didn't become billionaires by not leveraging incentives when the benefit for doing so is obvious.