The tax subsidy has since ended

but it was going when it wasn't even needed anymore

that's why they pay for it. Because they face no serious blowback

the stadium had started making money enough to pay for itself again

yet they were still getting tax money

fuck the taxpayers or this mega corporations? Taxpayers it is

Millions of dollars that could have been used on literally anything, for a business that makes billions every year

it's insanity

*T A R A N D F E A T H E R*

Then you get Retards like UC

saying we need it for social cohesion

let me tell you last time I had trouble and I needed help the fat guy eating hotdogs and drinking beer helped me out

yeah because sports definitely haven't been a political flashpoint or anything

it does make *some* sense why ppl say that

civic organizations are practically dead

But they don't replace that

so people want to pretend to belong to something local without putting any work in

or, by putting in the "work" of watching a television once a week for a season

and buying paraphenalia

can't foget that

yeah that too

***C O N S O O M***

pay $30 for a shitty shirt and $25 for a fucking hat

more like 70 if you go to the stadium 😉

The Avs for while were getting free ice time from a publicly funded icerink

that's smaller but when I learned about it I was still annoyed

The avs can afford $300 an hour for their ice

why is a city giving it to them for free

because buying politicians is easier than buying that shit

I'm sure they didn't even have to "buy" anyone

it was some retarded city bureaucrat or politician who didn't know there's always a shortage of ice time

and that during hockey season all the amateur clubs and teams are vying for anything they can get.

>if we have the Avs more people will want to come to the ice rink!

Uh, we already have more people that want to use the ice, than we have time for them to use it...

>But the Avs, we'll be where the Avs practice!!

Have you ever gone to your city council meetings?

once

Kind of shit that gets brought up and proposed makes you want to go AnPrim

was disgusted by it tbqh

Go full uncle ted and start a mail order business

but I live in a major metro area so it's prolly even worse for me than most people