MCD said 55,000 tickets had been sold, it had paid $950,000 to book the stadium and it had already paid Prince $1.5 million.
"It's not going to end unless something really major happens", says Neil deMause, co-author of Field of Schemes, a book examining stadium construction across the US.
Indeed, Professor Rosentraub calculates in his book about stadium economics, "Major League Losers," that governments in two places, Seattle and Cleveland, provided more than $500 million in subsidies for sports, and four others provided subsidies of more than $300 million.
The Jets report contends that the team will be able to book 17 "stadium events," including the team's 10 football games, as well as 38 trade shows or conventions and only two consumer shows, in contrast with St . Louis
Wales U21 take on their San Marino counterparts at Bangor's Book People Stadium with a 14 00 BST kick-off.
In fact, it may be too kind, said Rick Eckstein, a Villanova professor who co-authored a book on stadium financing.
Yet the promoter, Eddie Hearn, who arrived here on Friday for next week's end-of-year convention, has provisionally booked Wembley Stadium on 13 June next year.
So Warren booked the stadium and printed large, silver-black-and-white tickets, and, on a sunny Sunday morning last April, the tens of thousands of congregants of one of America's largest churches began to file into the stands.
Soon the group was big enough to be booked in stadiums.
They do victory tours for little pay, and are booked into stadiums with flimsy playing fields.
