Now What?
You all know by now, Indianapolis lost the Super Bowl to north Texas. I’m not surprised. If I was an NFL owner, I would have probably made the same call: 30,000 more seats versus 30 degrees below zero. It’s pretty simple math. However, now comes the bigger issues.
1. The point of building the taxpayer-funded stadium and giving away $66 million in taxpayer dollars to build a hotel that was already going to be built, was to get a Super Bowl. Now that we’re not getting the Super Bowl, will the taxpayers get a refund?
2. This is the Mayor’s third major defeat this year, Indy Works, Charter Schools and now this. Is the Mayor weakened as he continues his bid for re-election?
3. Would the juice have been worth the squeeze? Indy Tax Dollars has an interesting list of what we would have had to give up in order to get the Super Bowl and the long-term economic impact would have been nill.
Just some questions as we do the post mortem. The biggest one though is now what?
