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[beat90tsi]

@Bravada 442

Stadium holds 65,050

7,300 in club ($125/piece) ($912,500)
1,544 in suites ($175/piece) ( 270,200) + 100-200k for the indiv. suite
56,206 in seats (75/piece) ( 4,215,450)

8 games a year guaranteed means 43,185,200 in just ticket sales every year. Plus you figure average of 150k per suite and there are 129 suites so add another 19,350,000 to that

Therefore just in game day ticket sales they are producing 62,535,200 per year. Add to that whatever they make in food and drink, merchandise, or their guaranteed 2 preseason games or any postseason games they might have. Anyway you look at it, the Steelers are bringing in some major bank, and who knows what they are doing for local businesses, hotels, and other establishments. I’ll bet that it’s easily over another 25 million/year. For the city to spend $158 million on it (http://www.steelergridiron.com/information/newstadium.html) that is a pretty smart investment. They should now be breaking even sometime this year and begin actually making money on the investment based on what the local economy is getting because of the games.

Sure that’s a lot of coin, but those are gross #s. Take out the cost of all the employees who work at the stadium, the cleanup crews who spend the entire next day cleaning it up, the utility bills and all the other costs associated with running an NFL game, and you start to see that it’s not bringing those numbers to the bottom line.

Whatever does hit the bottom line goes to the Rooneys. They make their money in a stadium built with tax dollars. It’s a great business model, I’d love to be able to pull that off.