Persuasive Essay On New Sports Stadiums

Since the stadiums are most on the metropolitan areas, the fans from suburbs spend lots of expenditures, money and time, to watch baseball games. They give up the opportunities to do something else rather than watching games. Every year, the Major League Baseball receives more than $2 billion from advertising, sales of tickets and merchandise. And the “New York Yankees” got more revenues than the combinations of the other teams’

Many people argue that competitive sports raise numerous amounts of pressure on the youth making them distracted from things such as their education and because it can cause severe injuries, but some people argue that youth should play competitive sports because it teaches major life lessons that can help with many different aspects of their future such as college, getting a job, and many more. Playing competitive sports also improves your physical strength, another physical aspect of playing competitive sports is decreasing your chance of being obese or having disease. If you don't prefer to play competitive sports there are alternative options such as biking or walking to school. In an HT Health article “Sports Seen As Key Weapon in Fighting Teen Obesity” it says that in a study with 1,700 kids, ten percent walked or biked to school 3 ½ days a week,, in the study they found that biking or walking to school lowered the risk of being obese by 33%. I argue that kids should play competitive sports because of the important life skills taught through these sports and the physical benefit of playing sports. In this paper I will explain how communication, time management, and lowering the risk of being obese; supports my claim, “Kids should play competitive sports”

The fear of losing a sports team, and the votes of sports fans, have caused local officials to blink time and time again and to waste public funds to buy the votes of the vocal and organized few, versus the best interests of the largest portion of their voters.

Sports teams and more importantly the NFL does not always have respect for the city or its people. In some cases the teams have contracts with the city their cities that state the conditions of maintaining the stadiums they play in. In Cincinnati, the Bangles cost the Hamelton County a lot of money. in Hamilton County, where one in seven people lives beneath the poverty line and budget cuts have left gaps in the schools and sheriffs department, residents are bracing for more belt-tightening: rollback of a property-tax break promised as part of a 1996 plan to entice voters to pay for two new stadiums (Wall Street Journal). It pays more for the team than it does on the citizens. In 2013 the team threatened to move to another city if the county did not pay for upgrades to their new stadium. For the second super bowl the city of Glendale had, the mayor was officially uninvited due to a disagreement on the terms of the event. The construction of the stadium that event was held at was the subject of contraversy as well, money.cnn.com reports “Taxpayers paid for most of the University of Phoenix Stadium, which opened in 2006 and is home to this Sunday's Super Bowl -- to the tune of about $300 million.”. Citizens of Santa Clara deal with increased traffic in their city for the San Francisco 49rs playing in their city, despite protests from the people. In the end if you try to get in the way of the organization they do not care what position you hold in office, so long as they get their way.

Stadium subsidies are used to fiancé new stadiums. The government provides financial support to franchises that allows them to build their new stadiums. These subsidies are costing tax payers millions and do not seem to be in the best interest of the city the stadium is in. Those in favor of using tax payer dollars to build stadiums argue that the economic impact a professional franchise has on a city is great and a new stadium will help generate revenue. Research has shown this is not the case. Most stadiums cost the city and never produce enough revenue to make up for those costs (Bast, 1990).

Sports teams, or professional athletic organization, are extremely important institutions within a city or region. They can help connect people with places, and through this loyalty, a sense of civic pride can be seen. Furthermore, the multi-billion dollar industry sports produces effects that can impact individuals and communities. In recent years dozens of new sports stadiums have been built throughout the country, with major funding coming from public subsidies. The aim of this paper is to analyze the positive and negative impacts that come with these subsidies.

For example, the Oregon University Athletics program alone makes $196 million a year just off of sports sales. And twenty other colleges are making over $100 million a year with the athletes still not being paid. Almost every college makes their money off sporting resources like admission, or jersey sales. But almost all of their main money source comes from ticket sales. Depending on the seat view or spot will range from about $14 to $4,250 per ticket. And if the event is a special game the cost rises, along with the team or area. And the thing is that the majority of the money coming from sports the colleges use on things not even needed. Auburn University used money from its sales on a 11,000 foot HD screen for the stadium worth 13.9 million. And many other schools used the money from sporting events for different additions to the school worth well over $50

There are many taxpayers willing to donate money to sports industry for support to athletes and everything else involved. Everybody else that does not enjoy or want things to do with sports should not be paying for the people that do. Many citizens, due to ticket prices, never get to use those facilities in the first place, so they shouldn't have to help pay to have them built. These leagues make millions, if not billions of dollars a year they should build the stadiums with their own funds found on Debate. A stadium will bring benefits to the city or town as a whole and employ more people. When a new stadium is built usually it means the old one was dated or the city wanted something new and shiny, when opening the same people are being hired to run the new one as the one prior to it so really new people are not being employed. Sports teams are making enough money to build their own stadiums if needed so cities do not really need to help them. Canada should not be using taxpayer dollars to run new facilities and support

This money does not come without an opportunity cost and money that goes into stadiums are being taken is being taken out of vital services that we need like our school system and parks. “the pride that having a sports team in your city brings is much more valuable than thirty libraries” is a completely atrocious statement. The worst part is most common people don’t even realize how much of their tax money is going into these stadiums and thus will not choose their politicians that will defend them on this issue. The government is generally used in terms to describe politicians but in a democracy our government is representation of their citizens. It is our job in the democratic process to be outraged when politicians use our money to benefit the few and to keep them out of office. In Johnstons book he talks to a few capitalists who claim that they did nothing wrong if the rules were set up to be cheated and I agree with them. They are unarguably very unscrupulous but in their mind if they are not going to cheat and make a fortune, then someone else just is. Like many rappers before us said “ don’t hate the player hate the game” and since we have the ability to change the game I think it is up to us to make sure it

Sports teams are a symbol of a cities pride. Take for example the Chicago Cubs. They create a sense of loyalty toward that city. However, none of that would happen without a stadium. Stadiums and teams can play a very important role in a cities economy, or they could also be irrelevant. To decide whether or not they are useful or not you must first understand each side of the argument. So first, let’s examine the pros of having a stadium within your city. Then, we will discuss the harms of having one. And finally, decide which side is more beneficial for the economy.

In the United States, new sports stadiums are commonly seen as a vital part of the redevelopment of a city having a great economic growth with the production of jobs and a positive income builder. After this, the owners of the pro sports teams with millions and millions of dollars of subsidies for the construction of new stadiums and arenas and expect these facilities to generate economic benefits exceeding these subsidies by large margins. However, a growing body of fact indicates that professional sports facilities, and the franchises they are home to, may not be engines of economic benefit anywhere claims Sachse, “. In reality, sports franchises typically account for a very small proportion of the total economic output of the cities in which they reside.” Some economical studies on the amount of income and employment in US cities find no evidence of positive economic benefits associated with past sports facility construction and some studies find that professional sports facilities and teams have a net negative economic impact on income and employment. It just shows that these results suggest that at best, professional sports teams and facilities provide non-pecuniary benefits like civic pride, and a greater sense of community, along with consumption benefits to those attending games and following the local team in the media; at worst, residents

   Abstract:  The Stadium  construction boom continues, and taxpayers are being forced to pay for new high tech stadiums they don’t want.  These new stadiums create only part-time jobs.  Stadiums bring money in exclusively for professional leagues and not the communities.  The teams are turning public money into private profit.  Professional leagues are becoming extremely wealthy at the taxpayers expense.  The publicly-funded stadium obsession must be put to a stop before athletes and coaches become even greedier.  New stadiums being built hurt public schools, and send a message to children that leisure activities are more important than basic education.  Public money

After the 1984 Los Angeles Games showed for the first time that mega-events could produce an economic surplus, mega-sport events, particularly the Olympic Games, acquired central status for city and national government development agendas (Andranovich, Burbank and Heying, 2001). And the appeal of hosting a mega-event, or more specifically a mega-sport event, has grown significantly over the

Do you have a passion, something you love to do more than anything? Imagine people trying to stop you from doing what you love because they think it’s not useful or a waste. Some people say competitive sports cost too much and they are way too dangerous for young kids to participate in. However, for many youth, competitive sports play a positive role. When kids play competitive sports, they are happier and they learn how to be healthy. Also, they learn life lessons that they will need for the future.

State and local governments have become increasingly responsible for financing many of the new arenas and stadiums demanded by professional sports teams. While local officials have a long history of efforts to attract team to their communities, the task of securing the funds needed to build the required playing facilities is relatively new. During the early years of professional sports through the 1950s, most teams played their home games in a privately owned stadium or arena. Team owners wanted little involvement from the public sector in their business affairs. Later, when publicly funded facilities became more common, the teams and other users paid rental fees that helped offset the