So over the thanksgiving holiday this past weekend, I spent
it with my family that came in town from New York. We are all football fanatics
and although sometimes the woman in our family hate it, cause sometimes we tend
to go a little over board by watching football while seated at the dinner
table. It’s okay, the still love us. Well back to the conversation. While
speaking after dinner about sports we came to a very bitter conversation about
the Miami Hurricanes and the reason why they had to move out from a stadium,
which was their home. Where they won 5 national championships and broke
numerous of records in. To a stadium that was originally a baseball stadium and
the now share with the Miami Dolphins. All of this because the Miami Marlins
wanted to tear down the Orange Bowl and build their own stadium in those
footprints. They wanted to build this multi-billion dollar stadium for a team,
which has had the worst record in major league baseball in years, who has only
won 2 World Series in the history of the franchise, and they did not want to
take a dollar out of their pocket. As a result taxpayers ended up paying for
this stadium. It created the biggest out rage in the community like never
before. A football community at sorrow while the execs of the worst baseball
team in the league happy. What’s wrong with this picture? Who are the ones who
buy tickets to watch the games at the end of it all? Yes, the citizens in this
community who had no interest in this project in its entirety since day one. So
I ask myself was this a good business move? I sincerely do not think so at all.
What I do think though is that if you’re a politician you must be very happy
right about now.
