T master Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 First let me start by saying my heart goes out to all those effected by the hurricane this past week but NY's are tough & will bounce back !! While listening to Mike & Mike this morning they were reporting that the NBA season was to start either last night or tonight in Brooklyn in the brand new Barkley Center with the Brooklyn Nets , yet in the after math of Sandy which has devastated NJ & NYC which both would have some rooting interest in that game it would be a good thing to postpone the opening game due to the circumstances . Well i have to say that i agree ! But the thing that again stuck out to me is once again all the money in NYS when it comes to sports & there complexes is constantly being pumped into NY CITY & SCREW the rest of the state !! In the last less than ten years just in NYC there has been 3 sports arena's or stadiums built with funding from you the tax payer , Yankee Stadium , Met's Stadium & The Barkley Center , not to mention that the "NY Giants & the NY Jets" which of the 2 neither play in the state of NY have had a 1.2 Billion dollar stadium built . But when it comes to the Bills getting little if any help from the state it's AW HELL TO THE NO !! Sorry but that is total BS !! As i said in my opening statement i feel for those in the city b/c of the unfortunate circumstances with the storm & i don't want this to at all be misconstrued as being a diss of any sort at this time against either NYC or NJ !! But when it comes to the sports part of the city verse the rest of the state GMAFB !! Why is it that all this stuff gets past money wise for the city but the rest of the state has to suffer so they (NYC) can thrive & still not appreciate what is given to them while all others have to do with out ??
Mr. WEO Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 First let me start by saying my heart goes out to all those effected by the hurricane this past week but NY's are tough & will bounce back !! While listening to Mike & Mike this morning they were reporting that the NBA season was to start either last night or tonight in Brooklyn in the brand new Barkley Center with the Brooklyn Nets , yet in the after math of Sandy which has devastated NJ & NYC which both would have some rooting interest in that game it would be a good thing to postpone the opening game due to the circumstances . Well i have to say that i agree ! But the thing that again stuck out to me is once again all the money in NYS when it comes to sports & there complexes is constantly being pumped into NY CITY & SCREW the rest of the state !! In the last less than ten years just in NYC there has been 3 sports arena's or stadiums built with funding from you the tax payer , Yankee Stadium , Met's Stadium & The Barkley Center , not to mention that the "NY Giants & the NY Jets" which of the 2 neither play in the state of NY have had a 1.2 Billion dollar stadium built . But when it comes to the Bills getting little if any help from the state it's AW HELL TO THE NO !! Sorry but that is total BS !! As i said in my opening statement i feel for those in the city b/c of the unfortunate circumstances with the storm & i don't want this to at all be misconstrued as being a diss of any sort at this time against either NYC or NJ !! But when it comes to the sports part of the city verse the rest of the state GMAFB !! Why is it that all this stuff gets past money wise for the city but the rest of the state has to suffer so they (NYC) can thrive & still not appreciate what is given to them while all others have to do with out ?? All of those stadiums were privately funded with some public ancillary funding for things like infrastructure alterations or by tax abatements/breaks. And as you mention (for some reason), the Jets and Giants play in NJ so aren't really meaningful in the point of your post. Maybe if Ralph went to the state with a proposal for a new stadium that he would fund the construction of, he would get the same support with public funds that those other team/stadium owners got. Instead, Russ tells the state Ralph would like another $100 million--wait, no, another $200 million to upgrade the stadium in his name.
PearlHowardman Posted November 1, 2012 Posted November 1, 2012 WNY and CNY are losing too much of its population year-after-year to warrant any state funds for a sports complex in/near Buffalo. NYC doesn't have that problem.
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