International I Hate Sports Club

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=m ... &type=lgns

Going back to the content of my very first post here, the abomination is at last completed.

My heart goes out to all the families that lost their homes through eminent domain for this obscenity.

Sportplatz, Sportplatz, uber alles, Uber alles in der Welt ...

I feel so sorry for the people who were forced out. I hope the families are O.K.

Discouraging. I wonder why the Cowboys are considered to be the most polarizing football team. Makes me wonder if it's because they're from a Southern state or what? ahh --who cares.

I sympathize. I thought the article was going to say the event was bittersweet because of the people who were displaced but it was only because of the storm that collapsed one of their million dollar facilities. Sort of ironic when you think about it. Maybe the storm was well-deserved karma.

Ray wrote:I thought the article was going to say the event was bittersweet because of the people who were displaced but it was only because of the storm that collapsed one of their million dollar facilities.

Actually, and I should have mentioned this as a refresher to my original post, the neighborhood of people and families who were displaced was shrugged off by the media. Local moguls with ties to people who invested in the thing made sure that the local media just kind of did very low key reporting on it, and those who did try to champion these people were attacked by sports fans writing articles about how 'run down' and 'trashy' the neighborhood was, and how full of 'trailer homes' it was, etc., any reason you can think of to dirty the image of the area.

Even if those statements were true, which they were not, there is a process called regentrification. For less than probably 1/10th the cost of that stadium, the area probably could have been rebuilt. Even if it wasn't rebuilt, there is no reason for anyone, anywhere, to be evicted from his or her home. Not when the homes are owned by people who bought them.

Millhouse wrote:Actually, and I should have mentioned this as a refresher to my original post, the neighborhood of people and families who were displaced was shrugged off by the media. Local moguls with ties to people who invested in the thing made sure that the local media just kind of did very low key reporting on it, and those who did try to champion these people were attacked by sports fans writing articles about how 'run down' and 'trashy' the neighborhood was, and how full of 'trailer homes' it was, etc., any reason you can think of to dirty the image of the area.

Just another of many, many, many other examples of the sports media failing (and I think deliberately so) to function as a journalistic institution instead of as a propaganda mill whose purpose it is to not expose corruption but to encourage as many people as they possibly can to become unthinking, uncritical football fans. It's just what I would have expected.