This picture isn’t the greatest since it was taken by me in a moving car at night on a cell phone after a few beers. Still, check out how cool this stadium looks at night: That’s Vancouver’s BC Place stadium. That’s the stadium that used for the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, for the [...]
Earlier this month, I created some unintentional confusion with the title of this chart of attendance data for Twins home games: @Rat seemed to think I was referring to the ballpark’s architecture, but that was a reference to the company who slapped their logo all over the ballpark, and seems to expect us to use [...]
This is worth a read. Governor Dayton on March 12, 2012 arguing that the e-pulltabs projections made sense. All it would take is a 142% increase in the popularity of pulltabs after the introduction of e-pulltabs (the icon on the lower-right of the document will let you go full-screen): Mark Dayton Owns The Stadium Funding [...]
How could anyone predict that the Vikings stadium e-pulltabs projections would fall short? Well, one could have listened to Rep Gruenhagen back in May 2012, who explained that only one state had previous tried exploiting their citizens through e-pulltabs, and the numbers fell far short of projections. That state was Iowa: The topic on the [...]
Tim Nelson at MPR’s Stadium Watch blog has published a breakdown of the projected construction worker hours for the Vikings stadium construction project. It turns out that it takes a lot of hours to build a billion dollar stadium with bathrooms in every suite and a VIP parking ramp so corporate types don’t have to [...]
According to SportCity.com, Jared Allen is scheduled to make $14,280,612 as a Minnesota Viking in the 2013-14 season. That’s a good chunk of change. Now, imagine if Allen developed a nasty e-pulltabs gambling habit. I know that it’s hard to imagine Jared Allen having nothing better to do with his time than slowly lose money [...]
I noticed today that the former state rep who authored the horrible e-pulltabs financing scheme that was supposed to cover the state’s share of the Vikings stadium corporate Wilfare project through gambling exploitation, John Kriesel, has blocked me on Twitter. I’m not sure which Tweet inspired Kriesel to do that (I don’t follow Kriesel on [...]
I had a chance to catch most of the Minneapolis DFL Mayoral Candidate debate at the Humphrey Institute yesterday, including the opening question on why the heck the city thought it was a good idea to commit $675 million over 30 years to an NFL franchise so they could tear down and rebuild a stadium [...]
Al Lund from Allied Charities wrote an “explanation” piece in the StarTribune on March 16th that explained why e-pulltabs revenue is nowhere near where it was projected to be. He explains that there are vendors who are still waiting or approvals, which is keeping games from being installed, which keeps revenue from coming in (only [...]
Tim Nelson at the MPR Stadium Watch blog pointed us to the top-10 e-pulltabs locations by revenue per device. All ten of them are beating projections on a per device basis. But, the average number of devices at these locations is below the 6.16 average the projections are based on. If we adjust for that, [...]
