Charlotte City Council is expected to approve $650 million for Panthers stadium renovations tonight

[grateflday]

Good!!  Whenever I travel, go to another city or area I pay all kinds of travel and tourism taxes for their stadiums, arenas and venues. So now we can let everyone visiting and traveling through Charlotte pay those same taxes and fees for ours.      

[Panthercougar68]

20 minutes ago, CBDellinger said:

They had a SB at the new Met Life stadium which has no roof.

Yep, the argument will be “buts it’s NYC” and it will be their last one for a long time but they got one.

[jfra78]

1 hour ago, Panthercougar68 said:

I think the end goal is to have “A” Super Bowl in Charlotte and pray it doesn’t rain. Roof is preferred but not the end all be all.

Someone pointed out how Jacksonville got their Super Bowl in 2005. Tampa has hosted many with no roof and it’s in 3pm rain Florida.

Tampa averages 74/54 in February with 4 days of rain.  Charlotte averages 54/34 in February with 7 days of rain.  There's a big difference, Charlotte needs a dome to get a Superbowl. 

[Panthercougar68]

2 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

Tampa averages 74/54 in February with 4 days of rain.  Charlotte averages 54/34 in February with 7 days of rain.  There's a big difference, Charlotte needs a dome to get a Superbowl. 

There was snow in NYC, a tropical storm in 2010 in Miami…they can figure it out down the road.

[CBDellinger]

I dgaf about hosting a superbowl tbh... its a total clusterfugg that would lock down the city for an entire week or more.  Let some other city endure all the shish that comes with it.

[jfra78]

11 minutes ago, Panthercougar68 said:

There was snow in NYC, a tropical storm in 2010 in Miami…they can figure it out down the road.

NYC was an outlier due to 9/11, plus it's NYC something Charlotte could never be.  I have been to games at night in the winter in Charlotte, it is fine for hard-core football fans especially fans of the home team, but it's not suitable to the type of fan that goes to a Superbowl

[Adb6368]

Charlotte is not a Super Bowl destination. Stop aiming for unattainable goals. 

and why you’re at it stop moaning about our owner wanting tax dollars to upgrade an old stadium. It’s not the first or the 100th time this has happened. It’s how it works. If you want to complain then complain about the amount being too much or too little. Or complain and the roof. Complain about something that actually makes sense. 

[Donald LaFell]

5 hours ago, Tbe said:

These statements don’t really go together.

The council is a democratic process. They are elected and people could have come and voiced their opposition.

If people don’t want Tepper to get this money, they wouldn’t punish the council for voting against it.

He’s getting the money because the people who actually do vote want the team to stay in charlotte.

If the council received 10000 calls voicing opposition, they would change their tune.

But regular voters don’t really care….at least not enough to send an email.

Its a shame, but it’s how it is right now.

Yeah before the elections most of the council members said they would give money to build a new stadium. The observer and other journalists usually ask them boilerplate questions like that to all of them. Only one person I liked said they would vote no. So it was pretty much settled even before the election. 
 

 

[Panthercougar68]

33 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

NYC was an outlier due to 9/11, plus it's NYC something Charlotte could never be.  I have been to games at night in the winter in Charlotte, it is fine for hard-core football fans especially fans of the home team, but it's not suitable to the type of fan that goes to a Superbowl

9/11 a decade later? Get a better argument. It’s gonna be cold but doesn’t affect the pitch. It was miserable for everything outside the game in Minnesota a few years ago but it’s about what the city can pitch.

[Panthercougar68]

21 minutes ago, Adb6368 said:

Charlotte is not a Super Bowl destination. Stop aiming for unattainable goals. 

and why you’re at it stop moaning about our owner wanting tax dollars to upgrade an old stadium. It’s not the first or the 100th time this has happened. It’s how it works. If you want to complain then complain about the amount being too much or too little. Or complain and the roof. Complain about something that actually makes sense. 

Huh?

[Pejorative Miscreant]

1 hour ago, Adb6368 said:

Charlotte is not a Super Bowl destination. Stop aiming for unattainable goals. 

and why you’re at it stop moaning about our owner wanting tax dollars to upgrade an old stadium. It’s not the first or the 100th time this has happened. It’s how it works. If you want to complain then complain about the amount being too much or too little. Or complain and the roof. Complain about something that actually makes sense. 

 

1 hour ago, Panthercougar68 said:

Huh?

I think he’s complaining about people complaining.   

I personally want to complain about people telling me what I should or shouldn’t complain about. 

[Jackie Lee]

Suck it Tepper!

[Panthercougar68]

Brown is an idiot that spent time in Federal prison lol

Edited Tuesday at 12:41 AM by Panthercougar68

[Panthercougar68]

I know for a fact that Dimple and Brown never went to the meetings they have been having for the last year and are putting on a show shouting “no transparency!!!!!” And it’s working on the Twitter crowd.