Rothlisfucker deal

[dsmdave]

@OLDS ROCKETMAN

you only look at the small picture… i’ve explained this so many times but here we go one more time… heinz field holds roughly 60,000 for football. with preseason and playoffs you are lookin at 12 home games… so thats about 720,000 tickets. the pirates averaged aprx 24,000 per game x 81 games… thats 1,944,000 tickets. ok you starting to see… if not i’ll continue…aprx 7 pitt home games plus 12 steelers games plus a concert or two plus the WPIAL and city league… heinz field surface gets used less than 25 times a year… so that only 25 dates of parking revenue, resturant patronism, hotel patronism, air port travel, cab service… etc etc… just the pirates alone 81 days… 81 days people spend money at local bars, stay in hotels…etc etc… the money the city makes off of pirates games destroys what they make off of, at the most, …12 steelers home games. thats not even factoring in people goin to a bars watching the bucco game when they are on the road the other 81 GAMES!.. the steelers clearly are the most popular thing in this city and sell more merchandise than anything but when it comes to revenue as a whole brought into the city… you can’t argue against those numbers i just provided.

morale wise… the city needs the steelers
financially wise… the city needs the pirates

Why did we have so much trouble keeping the Pens in light of this information? They are very popular but I also realize the capacity of the arena.