NBA coming back to Seattle?!?

[onthedownlow]

Kansas City wants their Kings back, too.

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hal wrote:
That's a wacky wiki entry...

"Metropolitans, winners of the 1917 Stanley Cup"

were NOT from a 'major league' - they were from the Pacific Coast Hockey League...

GOOD RIDDENS!! The sacramento owners were trying to extort a new area out of the city. I can't believe we didn't fall for it - YAY!!!!

WRONGO
The Stanley Cup is the oldest professional ports trophy in North America. And in 1917, the NHA (as it was called then) only had 4 teams, all in Canada. The PCHA was an equal force then, not a minor player.

[M A V I C]

Racer X wrote:
GF's brother does demolition. I'm not against jobs, but I AM against us being forced into stuff the voters repeatedly turn down. Mariner Stadium was vetoed 4 times by the Seattle voters. The COUNTY over-ruled us.

What are the three stadiums? I'm confused by your previous response.

On this one, let's remember what happened. The county did not over-rule the voters. The stadium was estimated at $250-300 million. The vote was negative multiple times. If it had been $100 million or less, it doesn't have to be approved by voters. So the county exec said the stadium would only cost $100 million.

There were then $250 million in cost overruns. We said "good job, how about you be governor now?"

Are we even done paying for the renovation to what is now Key Arena that we did to keep the Sonics in the 90's? We tore down the Kingdome before we were finished paying for it.

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That's not exactly what happened MAVIC. It was the state legislature that stepped in and approved the funding after the county council's measure was narrowly defeated. The cost of Safeco was originally estimated at $350 million, and the owners put up $150 million or so.


October 14, 1995 - A special session of the state legislature authorizes a different funding package for a new stadium that includes a food and beverage tax in King County restaurants and bars, car rental surcharge in King County, a ballpark admissions tax, a credit against the state sales tax, and sale of a special stadium license plate.
http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/sea/ball...nt=history

[Racer X]

M A V I C wrote:
[quote=Racer X]
GF's brother does demolition. I'm not against jobs, but I AM against us being forced into stuff the voters repeatedly turn down. Mariner Stadium was vetoed 4 times by the Seattle voters. The COUNTY over-ruled us.

What are the three stadiums? I'm confused by your previous response.

On this one, let's remember what happened. The county did not over-rule the voters. The stadium was estimated at $250-300 million. The vote was negative multiple times. If it had been $100 million or less, it doesn't have to be approved by voters. So the county exec said the stadium would only cost $100 million.

There were then $250 million in cost overruns. We said "good job, how about you be governor now?"

Are we even done paying for the renovation to what is now Key Arena that we did to keep the Sonics in the 90's? We tore down the Kingdome before we were finished paying for it.
Key Arena, Mariner Stadium/Safeco Field, CenturyLink Stadium. That's 3. Ackerly is building a 4th, isn't he? And some idiots want a 5th?

[pRICE cUBE]

Bring back the multi-use Domes!

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pRICE cUBE wrote:
Bring back the multi-use Domes!

We are getting some awesome MLS soccer out of the Seahawk's new stadium, there's that...

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What's not to love? (new U of W Husky stadium in Seattle)

[Racer X]

shoulda spent the money of academic stuff and kept tuition down.

[AllGold]

Lemon Drop wrote:
What's not to love? (new U of W Husky stadium in Seattle)

What's not to love are those overhangy roof things that will kill a lot of people when they collapse. (Not to mention funnel craploads of rain water onto select rows of unfortunate fans.) Hopefully, the artist's conception is not accurate for that part.