As of 2012, 125 of the 140 teams in the NFL, Major League Baseball, NBA, NHL and Major League Soccer, were playing in stadiums built or refurbished since 1990. Most, if not all of them, were paid for mostly with tax payer dollars at a cost of more than $30 billion.
Don’t you just love those venerable, old stadiums and ball parks? Wrigley Field. Fenway Park. Dodger Stadium. Lambeau Field. The Rose Bowl. Edward Jones Dome.
In case that last one kind of caught you off guard, it’s the dump where the St. Louis Rams play.
The Rams want a new stadium and they, with the help of the NFL, are using a not so veiled threat to move to Los Angeles in order to get it.
The Edward Jones Dome opened in 1995. Yep, 19 years ago.
Remember when teams used to play in the same building for 50 or 60 years? That was when team owners paid for their own buildings.
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