Morning Report: NFL Commish Snubs San Diego’s Stadium Vote
4th December 2015
During a press event on Wednesday, the NFL singled out San Diego as a problem city, in danger of losing our professional football team. The problem, they said, is what we lack. We lack certainty. We lack a simple, uncomplicated plan. And most of all, we lack the will to build an expensive stadium, using public money, without voter approval. “Certainty means no further votes required,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said. He demanded competing cities have their certain, uncomplicated, voter-unapproved plans delivered to him by Dec. 28.
Why the citizens of football cities (and baseball, and basketball, and hockey cities) fall for this scam is beyond me. Fortunately, when Jerry Jones wanted to offload his costs while holding on to the profits for the new Cowboys Stadium, Dallas passed and Arlington took the bait. (Arlington is the Blue pimple on the ass of the DFW metroplex, being the home of University of Texas at Arlington and thereby having a average level of intelligence lower than anywhere else in North Texas.)