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[Seattle Times] 15 years after moving Sonics, now it’s the Thunder asking for publicly funded arena
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There's very little musicians left who can draw crowds big enough to fill these places up. Especially in poor smaller markets. Then the NFL stadiums which are custom built for 8 home games a year.
This is the number one issue for me.
How many days a year is the average football stadium in use? The answer is “not nearly enough for it to be worth public resources”
I am not sure if SoFI count as an average football stadium, but the event calendar of that place looks crazy. One of the few venue that actually earn its money
https://www.sofistadium.com/upcoming-events/
Is it? Unless there's another calendar that I'm missing something, it just looks like 2 NFL teams
That's because it's NFL season and it's actually getting used for football. Major concerts usually require preparations a week in advance to load everything in and build out a stage, etc..
Most stadiums don't have two NFL teams.