Off Topic 2015

[areobee401]

Re: Off Topic 2015

Boston can barely handle the people that live there, I can't imagine them handling an additional 5K or so people with dozens of satellite trucks.

Transportation and lodging would never work. Plus a new Olympic Stadium would need to be built.

Another selfish reason is the Revolution would be stuck playing in another over sized stadium. I want Kraft to build a proper MLS stadium for them.

[jb12780]

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Traffic and Transportation honestly. This winter we got like 6 feet of snow and the T couldn't remove the snow quick enough so they had to shut the T down for like a week or so.

It would've been a massive nightmare for the next nine years in this city. For all of the reasons you listed above, plus the fact that taxpayers would've had to cover the overrun costs (Thank you, Mayor Walsh, for not agreeing with that) and the last time this city tried a massive undertaking it failed miserably.

Wow. I couldn't even imagine what NYC would be like if they shut down the subway for a week.

Regardless, a trip to the Olympics would be cool. My uncle wanted to go to London but he said the prices were insane.

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[redsox4evur]

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Transportation and lodging would never work. Plus a new Olympic Stadium would need to be built.

Another selfish reason is the Revolution would be stuck playing in another over sized stadium. I want Kraft to build a proper MLS stadium for them.

I thought that was the plan was to make a stadium over by the Harbor that Kraft would use as his soccer stadium. And depending on the size I don't know if it would be too big something like 30,000 would be good, IMO, because it would be in Boston. And they will get more fans than they do now just because of that.

[redsox4evur]

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Wow. I couldn't even imagine what NYC would be like if they shut down the subway for a week.

Regardless, a trip to the Olympics would be cool. My uncle wanted to go to London but he said the prices were insane.

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Yea that's the only reason I wanted the Olympics in Boston because it's a once in a lifetime possibility to be able to attend the events.

[areobee401]

Off Topic 2015

I thought that was the plan was to make a stadium over by the Harbor that Kraft would use as his soccer stadium. And depending on the size I don't know if it would be too big something like 30,000 would be good, IMO, because it would be in Boston. And they will get more fans than they do now just because of that.

Olympic Stadium has to sit a lot more than 30K. You ever watch the opening/closing ceremonies and track & field? That's were the Revolution would be stuck playing. That 25-30K stadium by the Harbor would not be built. Would take Kraft off the hook to build a proper MLS stadium (preferably by the harbor as you mentioned).

[dickey1331]

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It's kinda overrated to host that type of event coming from a cost perspective. Look how many building are abandoned that were used just for the Olympics.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Depends really. When Chicago tried for a bid, they tore down most of the projects and low income housing. They built millennium park and dozens of condo buildings. Both are heavily used today.

[dickey1331]

Re: Off Topic 2015

Depends really. When Chicago tried for a bid, they tore down most of the projects and low income housing. They built millennium park and dozens of condo buildings. Both are heavily used today.

Chicago didn't get the bid so they didn't already build random stadiums that are really good for one or 2 events that wouldn't get used again.

[Bmore Irish]

Re: Off Topic 2015

A discussion that happened here recently has led me to the realization that I've become a "regular" at the bar down the road. Not quite a Cheers situation, but the bartenders know to give us the bottle caps from our Natty Bohs, the bouncer hits us up on Facebook to see if we're coming by or tell us a live band is playing, and the pool tables being re-felted has become newsworthy in my life. It's kinda disturbing.

[TheMatrix31]

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Olympics are always a catastrophic economic drain. I'd be jumping for joy if I were them.

[ThreeKing]

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Am I going to hell for watching the Special Olympics on ESPN and wondering who 'The Ringer' is??

[Speedy]

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It's kinda overrated to host that type of event coming from a cost perspective. Look how many building are abandoned that were used just for the Olympics.

Oh wow...you're right.

Bit of info on the Sochi olympics last year.

http://www.rt.com/business/sochi-olympics-income-exceed-908/

The Sochi Games became the first profitable Olympic Games in a decade, surpassing spending by $22 million, says Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.

According to the head of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko, the operating profit on the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi, that includes the property which was transferred to sports development in the country, totals around $140 million.

The whole Sochi Olympic Games cost $6 billion, of which $2.7 billion came from central government, the remainder was financed by private companies.

That's a HUGE P/L margin.

[Bellsprout]

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Am I going to hell for watching the Special Olympics on ESPN and wondering who 'The Ringer' is??

Yes. Yes you are.

[redsox4evur]

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Oh wow...you're right.

Bit of info on the Sochi olympics last year.

http://www.rt.com/business/sochi-olympics-income-exceed-908/

That's a HUGE P/L margin.

Yea it's the same with all of these publicly financed stadiums. The teams make the citizens so much for these stadiums and by the time these stadiums are fully paid off the team has been out that stadium for years. I took a sports economics class in my last semester at college and some of the stuff amazed me. Like this Olympics stuff, the Super Bowl, etc. And how most of the time these events actually cost more money than they make. One would think that all of the business coming into the state/city would make up for all of the expenses that comes along with these events.

[kehlis]

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Am I going to hell for watching the Special Olympics on ESPN and wondering who 'The Ringer' is??

For an adult this is one of the most immature things I've ever seen posted on this site.