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To: SilentZ who wrote (320059)	1/11/2007 4:47:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577937

>While cities, states and the taxpayer foots the bill for their stadiums. Am I the only one bothered by this arrangement? I am too, after reading that in most cases, the presence of the teams doesn't really help the cities much. For years, cities have been told to remain competitive and to grow, they had to have major leaque professional sports teams. LA, the second largest city in the country, hasn't had a professional football team in over ten years and it continues to grow. The Sonics have been making big demands about a new stadium or they were going to move to another state. Finally, the City of Seattle told them to forget it. Now it appears they are going to Bellevue across the lake looking for the necessary financing. I hope more cities become more hard nose when it comes to professional sports.