Who pays for sports stadiums, stadiums for pro teams such as the Air Canada centre in Toronto?
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Usually tax payers pay for the stadium but in some cases, the stadium is paid for by private individuals, like the owners who get investors.\n\nThe good part if the investors pay for it, is the city is not obligated to tax the residents who may not even like sports.
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Try Rugby Canada official website, maybe it helps.\nhttp://www.rugbycanada.ca/index.php?lang=en&page_id=177
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Combination of ticket sales, advertisement, team owners having to pay entry fees and sponsors.
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Ram had it right. The rules are set to encourage people to go to the stadium/arena to watch the game (increases revenue from concessions, souveneirs, etc.). Without these rules, nearly everyone would watch the games on TV, thus hurting revenue (though they'd have more commercials to compensate for the lack of people attending the games). \nI'm assuming this is like NHL Center Ice on either satellite or cable, and they use the local feeds in most cases (though I do know "National" televised games have been blacked out in the location of the game if the venue hasn't been declared "Sold Out."\nIn addition, some venues will have different numbers for capacity (usually physical and "sell-out"). Most of the time, there will be little difference, but this will accomodate things like skyboxes and exclude walk-up seating like "standing room only" or "general admission."
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The team plays everywhere across the country, but its based in Calgary.  Think that was set up after the 1988 Winter Olympics there and the head office for the Canadian National team is in the Pengrowth Saddledome.
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Toronto Rock. National Lacrosse League.\n\n5 Championships in 8 years of existence aint bad.
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HELL NO!!! Use that money to repair the stuff in New Orleans, or get ready for disasters. There's other money making ideas out there. Most sports owners are corrupt, and it would be way unfair to the public if their tax dollars are going to fund some sports arena. What if they don't like sports???
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Park at the corner of Chippewa Street and Main Street. There are parking lots all around and parking is around $5-$10. Then take the train from the corner of Chippewa and Main Street right to the arena. It's free to take the train and after the game it will drop you back off on Chippewa. \n\nChippewa is where all the good clubs are.\n\nHave fun!
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If you are in Toronto you can find it in Eglinton Centre. There are everything "world cup" you want to buy there.
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Who pays to go to the game? FANS. Fans want inside stadiums so they don't have to stand out in the cold. I don’t know what games you have been watching but when I watch football people get dirty and some of them even have blood on their jerseys.
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generally this means two things: the arena is older, and they need a new arena to put in "club seats" seats that are off limits to regular ticket buyers and the ones who do buy them pay an upfront fee to the team for the priviledge of those seats and then the buyers of those privledged seats have to pay again for the tickets, so the team in essence gets paid two times for the seats, once for the privledge of owning the club seats and a second fee for the tickets them selves. it boosts revenue for the team twice over
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Teams currently seeming to have stadium issues always will use a place like Los Angeles as ransom for their current locations to ante up.  Seems to me that makes the list of potential LA:  Buffalo, Indy, Kansas City, Minnesota, New Orleans, Oakland, San Diego and San Francisco.\n\nOf this group...odds are KC will get something done for the Chiefs;  Vikings, were they to move, seems to be looking more like San Antonio;  and the Saints, were they to move, likely to stay somewhere on the Gulf Coast.\n\nBills does have another suitor just north of the 49th in Toronto.  Colts have also been mentioned with Toronto as possible, as well.  Admittedly, Toronto is a large market of 5 million-ish, but the flux of currency values make it not too inviting at the moment.\n\n49ers, it seem, are now heading to Santa Clara.  Not sure if this deal is done, but I suspect they will stay somewhere in the bay area.\n\nRaiders...well, it is Al Davis, and they could end up in Honolulu, Bakersfield, or any of the towns named Springfield yet.\n\nChargers do strike me as the most likely.  They have stadium issues to the point where they need a new stadium if they want more Super Bowls played in the area.\n\nIf I were a betting man, I would say we could see two teams in LA.  Most likely the Chargers or Raiders from the AFC, along with an expansion NFC team.
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My experience has been your best bet for cheap is to find a scalper once the game has started, and it's going to be easier if it's a weekday afternoon game against a team like the Royals :P  It'll be a crap seat at the top of the bleachers or behind a pole in right field though.  Sadly, there just aren't cheap tickets unless you know someone.  \n\nThe experience is worth saving up for and accepting that the average person has been priced out of being able to afford to go more than a handful of times a season.\n\nOr go see them in Tampa or Toronto.
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Actualyy i don't think they get paid THAT much, if at all... especially in comparison to their pro contracts.  They consider it an honor to represent their countries, kind of like the Olympics, I think.
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Cities spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build the sports facilities needed to host the Olympics. Even preparing plans to bid on the Olympics cost millions of dollars.\n\nDon't most cities have more immediate needs than the unlikely option of hosting the Olympic games ?
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take labor cost, router cost, cable cost, maintenance service cost into accout. \n\nDowntown Toronto is covered by WLAN now.