Richard Sherman: Make billionaires pay for their own stadiums

[ansatsusha_gouki]

A major part of the NFL’s business model is getting taxpayers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on new stadiums. One of the NFL’s best players thinks it’s time for that practice to stop.

Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman said on 710 ESPN in Seattle that if he had his way, the billionaires who own NFL teams would foot the bill for the stadiums.

“I’d stop spending billions of taxpayer dollars on stadiums . . . maybe make the billionaires who actually benefit from the stadiums pay for them. That kind of seems like a system that would work for me,” Sherman said, via MyNorthwest.com.

It’s an argument that citizens and public officials in many NFL cities agree with, and yet the NFL has managed to find many municipalities willing to finance its stadiums. And more cities, most recently Las Vegas, are saying they’re open to giving taxpayer funds to the NFL. As long as those cities keep offering their money, the NFL will keep accepting.

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http://mynorthwest.com/310330/seahawks-richard-sherman-gives-his-presidential-pitch/

 

[Hey Julian!]

Yeah, Richard, then the owners can just take that shit out your check.

 

[BrownTurd]

Yeah, Richard, then the owners can just take that shit out your check.

basically

 

[Race Harley]

Yeah, Richard, then the owners can just take that shit out your check.

Too late for that, but he's fuckin' it up for the young bloods

 

[Entrepronegro]

How about he go find another job and stop being an employee for the billionaires.

 

[Black Radical]

Are you guys mad that Richard Sherman wants billionaires to pay for their own fucking business structures?

WTF is wrong with yall?

 

[EPDC]

Love Sherman. I have mad respect.

 

[dtownsfinest]

Yeah, Richard, then the owners can just take that shit out your check.

Exactly. He's a Smart guy so he probably knows this he's just entertaining the public and pretending like he actually cares that taxpayers pay for those stadiums.

 

[younggiftedandblack]

Are you guys mad that Richard Sherman wants billionaires to pay for their own fucking business structures?

WTF is wrong with yall?

BGOL Logic

 

[dHustla]

Are you guys mad that Richard Sherman wants billionaires to pay for their own fucking business structures?

WTF is wrong with yall?

Exactly! I wish I could get a gov't subsidy to help pay the rent for my office/warehouse.

Or better yet, build a new warehouse and have the gov't pay half

 

[ak_rep]

Are you guys mad that Richard Sherman wants billionaires to pay for their own fucking business structures?

WTF is wrong with yall?

No but it's convenient for him to say that now, being under a super billionaire. And with a newer stadium. He's just throwing a shot at the 49ers. It's a humorous suggestion.

 

[kain]

The NFL has a serious welfare program running on the backs of taxpayers. Sherman is right but people think those trivial jobs they provide is worth it.

 

[durham]

Props to Sherman. WTF with y'all being mad at an athlete for once who gives a shit about normal people?

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Are you guys mad that Richard Sherman wants billionaires to pay for their own fucking business structures?

WTF is wrong with yall?

That's Americans for yah. They will die to protect their massahs.

 

[RoomService]

Yeah, Richard, then the owners can just take that shit out your check.

thank you

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

The NFL has a serious welfare program running on the backs of taxpayers. Sherman is right but people think those trivial jobs they provide is worth it.

I don't think that's why Americans proudly support these companies screwing them over. If Americans for the most part don't think ill of their history of slavery, surely you don't think they will blink an eye over this. Americans are weird.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

thank you

And the football Union will stand idly by and watch this happen?

 

[saundman]

And the football Union will stand idly by and watch this happen?

If Trump gets in the GOP can finally get rid of All Unions with his 3 or 4 Supreme Count picks.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

If Trump gets in the GOP can finally get rid of All Unions with his 3 or 4 Supreme Count picks.

And Americans will gladly support whatever decision that cuts of their oxygen. Because Americans are weird like that.

 

[Built4Life]

Are you guys mad that Richard Sherman wants billionaires to pay for their own fucking business structures?

WTF is wrong with yall?

it makes too much sense for some cats.

 

[THREAD_CRITIC]

Cities also benefit from these stadiums and arenas so the full bill shouldn't just be on the owners.

 

[Mask]

Are you guys mad that Richard Sherman wants billionaires to pay for their own fucking business structures?

WTF is wrong with yall?

 

[Star]

Yeah, The same way countries benefit from hosting the Olympics

Cities also benefit from these stadiums and arenas so the full bill shouldn't just be on the owners.

 

[slewdem100]

Are you guys mad that Richard Sherman wants billionaires to pay for their own fucking business structures?

WTF is wrong with yall?

Nowhere in the world will you find the poor caring more for the welfare of the rich than in the USA

 

[Black Radical]

Nowhere in the world will you find the poor caring more for the welfare of the rich than in the USA

Ive tried to explain thi concept on here many times. Its called Ideological hegemony

IDEOLOGICAL HEGEMONY arises in a situation where a particular ideology is pervasively reflected throughout a society in all principal social institutions and permeates cultural ideas and social relationships. Ideological hegemony is a system of thought control. Ideology is a linked set of ideas and beliefs that act to uphold and justify an existing or desired arrangement of power, authority, wealth and status in a society.

In short it means the ruling classes ideas are the ideas that rule. 1% is responsible for every piece of media you consume, every textbook youve been taught from etc. They control the ideas and they push ideas that support the domination of the 99% by the 1%. Its that simple. So you have working people sticking up for billionaires, you have working people hating unions, you have regular ass people being ok that the rich are never convicted of crimes, angry that the 1% are asked to pay taxes or even pay for a facility that is built as a vehicle through which they make money!!!

Free your minds brothers. Yall sounding like whole idiots ouchea.

 

[shaddyvillethug]

Fuck sherman

 

[gene cisco]

Are you guys mad that Richard Sherman wants billionaires to pay for their own fucking business structures?

WTF is wrong with yall?

Some people might still be upset with him because of the comments he made about BLM. But that's what he does, speaks his fucking mind.

 

[Sampson]

Nowhere in the world will you find the poor caring more for the welfare of the rich than in the USA

 

[BDR]

Well the St Louis owner paid out of pocket that's how bad he wanted to get the fuck up out of Missouri

 

[LordSinister]

Americans really think that one day they will be the 1%.

Keep blaming unions, welfare and Mexicans for our problems, seems logical to me.

 

[BKF]

Cities also benefit from these stadiums and arenas so the full bill shouldn't just be on the owners.

By that logic. All businesses should be subsidised by local, county, and/or state government (aka taxpayers).

 

[THREAD_CRITIC]

By that logic. All businesses should be subsidised by local, county, and/or state government (aka taxpayers).

Raymond James Stadium hosts Super bowls, major concerts, University of South Florida football, Collegiate sport championships, local youth sport Championships, major concerts, anf festivals. Job fairs and conventions. The city of Tampa benefits from a Stadium as do the Buc owners.... and in the majority of cases voters overwhelmingly vote for stadium funding sooooo what's the problem.

don't think voters would vote to subsidize Walmart

 

[Mo-Better]

Well Sherman's talking now. Wonder how the NFL feels about itself now?

Careful what you wish for you just might get it.

 

[BKF]

Raymond James Stadium hosts Super bowls, major concerts, University of South Florida football, Collegiate sport championships, local youth sport Championships, major concerts, anf festivals. Job fairs and conventions. The city of Tampa benefits from a Stadium as do the Buc owners.... and in the majority of cases voters overwhelmingly vote for stadium funding sooooo what's the problem.

don't think voters would vote to subsidize Walmart

They are not a nonprofit. They are a profit based business and therefore they should pay the full bill. Unless they plan to share their profits with the host city.
BTW how many stadiums/arenas are actually voted on by the citizens?
Like I said..by your logic all businesses and business owners should be subsidized. Since the cities also benefit from having them in their town/county/state.

 

[BKF]

The NFL was actually a nonprofit until 2015.

The NFL was classified as nonprofit but they were not a nonprofit.