New Falcons stadium coming?

Why do they need a new stadium? Isn't the Georgia Dome new?

Why a retractable roof in Georgia, is the weather that bad?

Funny how other teams have been trying to get a new stadium since before the Georgia Dome was built and are still trying.
Now there going to replace it.

I have heard the place is horrible but you can say that about all domes.

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Originally posted 02:48 PM ET  12.10 by Dolemite censored

Why do they need a new stadium.Its a taxpayer rip-off.

+1000000000000000000000000000

This is how it's done in 'Merika today. Get the poor to pay for crap the rich own so they can make even more money. I would go along with a new Dome if the tickets for ALL events were passed out in a lottery. You want someone else to pay for it than you shouldn't be allowed to profit from it.

Are you kidding me? This place is only 20 years old, it seats over 71,000. Why in the world do they need a new building? This is just crazy.

The Georgia Dome was completed in 1992 at a cost of $214 million

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Originally posted 02:49 PM ET  12.10 by AGStrange

Why do they need a new stadium? Isn't the Georgia Dome new?

The Georgia Dome was completed in 1992 at a cost of $214 million

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Originally posted 02:57 PM ET  12.10 by Mangler.

Why a retractable roof in Georgia, is the weather that bad?

You could grow a real grass field.

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Originally posted 04:16 PM ET  12.10 by BUTTMAN

The Georgia Dome was completed in 1992 at a cost of $214 million

Makes no sense at all.

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Originally posted 04:02 PM ET  12.10 by captaincruzan

This is how it's done in 'Merika today. Get the poor to pay for crap the rich own so they can make even more money.

Read the article. The city's share is coming from a hotel-motel tax. That's not going to gouge the poor, it's going to gouge tourists and business travelers.

And after the stadium is paid for, they will keep the tax and use it to buy votes. Got it? That is the 'Merikan way.

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Originally posted 04:41 PM ET  12.10 by shiprock

You could grow a real grass field.

Dole's already got his real grass field planted, fertilized and watered.

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Originally posted 07:35 PM ET  12.10 by Debbie Does

Dole's already got his real grass field planted, fertilized and watered.

All legal too!

Nice, Visit Atlanta and Build a Stadium, I don't think so, I'll stop at Varsity then move on!!!

Ok, say the Falcon's *want* a new stadium. The city goes to the Falcons and says: "Ok, here's the deal - you get a new stadium, we( the citizens ) get a) ticket price reductions, b) car park changes, i.e., charge by car, not people in car; c) price cutbacks in refreshments sold at said stadium; d) no fancy enclosed boxes executives want to watch the game, then you sit on the same seats 'we - the public' sit on. Comments?

The issue is that it was built right before the modern stadiums... it was sort of the last big round boring concrete stadium. Everything since has had more personality, more amenities, more attraction to the stadium itself. Blank has been trying to build something new since he bought the team.

for a billion dollars I keep the personality I have

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Originally posted 11:42 AM ET  12.11 by BSchwartz07

The issue is that it was built right before the modern stadiums... it was sort of the last big round boring concrete stadium. Everything since has had more personality, more amenities, more attraction to the stadium itself. Blank has been trying to build something new since he bought the team.

Then let Arthur Blank build it himself. He has got plenty of money. The Georgia Dome is an excellent facility. The only problem (which is common to most similar facilities) is that is not in the "most friendly" part of Atlanta.