Comment 43267

By Hamilton Fan (anonymous) | Posted July 13, 2010 at 23:33:27

red, those are all excellent questions no doubt. I'm a simple person, I love TigerCats football and have gladly bought a pair of seasons tickets for years and will continue to do so, my wife and myself absolutely enjoy our outings to TigerCats games. But I do think your questions all point to the viability of Hamilton spending any money towards a new stadium for the PanAm Games and to be used afterwards by the TigerCats or a professional soccer team or whatever. One can only assume that the Mayor and city council of Hamilton chose to land the stadium here in Hamilton, without full consultation with the TigerCats and their needs, based on what the city of Hamilton could see as a return in some ways on their investment in the stadium. As one councillor rightly pointed out, Hamilton should not have proceeded to be involved with attempting to land the PanAm games for Hamilton and be involved with the building of a stadium. I think your questions aptly point to this councillor's wishes.

Again, as I say, I'm a simple person who loves TigerCats football but to me the TigerCats are more the TigerCats rather than the Hamilton TigerCats. I feel that perhaps the team should be playing in a city that has more the means of dealing with a professional football team and their needs rather than Hamilton that has so many infrastructure needs and other pressing issues.

Of course everyone wants an owner who makes loads of money off their team and thus can build a stadium or arena like Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment did with the ACC. But even with the billions of dollars behind it, MLSE extracted most of the money for BMO Field for the soccer team from the city of Toronto and the federal government. And of course we know of Rogers Corp. purchasing the $500 or so mill Skydome for a paltry #25 mill. Again, perhaps it's best if Hamilton respectfully bows out of the PanAm Games getting in over their heads on this without doing the math first hand that would show it could work in this city.

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