Dan Wetzel has an excellent column on the Minnesota Vikings stadium issue. It includes a discussion about the absurdity of fans paying for a wealthy owner’s new stadium but still being subject to the blackout rule.
Here’s Wetzel’s conclusion:
Minnesota is going to get a new stadium. The Vikings are going to stay put. And the taxpayers are going to pay to build a state-of-the-art cash machine of a stadium for a billion-dollar organization that doesn’t have to even guarantee the games will be on television.
That’s just how the NFL works. That’s just how the NFL has always worked.
–Ken Reed, Sports Policy Director, League of Fans
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