"This is a chance for people to return to the game as it was before billion dollar stadiums and $8 hot dogs," said Carl Whitehall, a media relations manager for the Gettysburg Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Neither FIFA nor the I.O.C. finances the multibillion dollar stadiums, nor pays for the infrastructure, the policing or the military protection needed to secure their events, which stretch on for weeks.
I just spent a billion dollars on a stadium, and I didn't plan on not playing football in it".
Will the state put half a billion dollars into a stadium for a guy who has made it clear over and over that he doesn't want to be there?
Built for $55m – about a quarter of a billion dollars today – the suburban stadium has sat mostly vacant and increasingly derelict since the football team returned downtown.
Instead of paying a billion dollars for a new stadium for the Yankees, New York might pay New Jersey a much smaller amount to keep them from trying to steal the Yankees".
"You don't have to be Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke or Tim Geithner to figure out that there aren't going be two billion-dollar stadiums built in the Bay Area in our lifetime," said Andy Dolich, who served as chief operating officer of the 49ers until earlier this year.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is pushing to wrap up plans for two billion-dollar stadiums, for the Yankees and the Mets, before he leaves office, while the city's mayoral candidates say they are growing increasingly wary of being locked into expensive sports deals as New York's economy weakens.
But then, the Mayor miraculously "finds" a billion dollars to build a new stadium for the Yankees.
Moreover, financial liability for the recent renovation of the football stadium is enormous: UC borrowed half a billion dollars and with interest this is a $1.25 billion dollar obligation that the University must pay.
