It’s probably safe to say that things are getting a bit tense in the Calgary marketplace as the saga regarding the potential new home for the Calgary Flames drags on. A couple times in the past few months, we’ve had a Flames executive ponder relocation only to walk the claim back immediately afterwards. As we’ve detailed around here, the whole process has been quite exhausting.
Endless arena and stadium skirmishes between teams and governments is old hat to Neil deMause. Since 1998, deMause has examined public subsidies to large sporting facilities at his website, Field of Schemes.