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‘They are building this stadium to try and get an NFL team, won’t happen… Or to host the Super Bowl, won’t happen. Last season the largest crowd UNLV drew was 20,565 vs Nevada. The rest of the games were between 10,700 and 18,000. At the beginning of the season they played a home game vs Minnesota and drew just over 17,000 and a few weeks later hosted Washington State to just over 18,000. What a waste of good money.’

Nevada, our most mentally challenged state, is about to spend eight hundred million dollars on a 60,000-seat stadium for one of the losingest university sports teams around: University of Nevada Las Vegas football.

In an era where it’s been proven time and time again that building new sports and entertainment facilities doesn’t necessarily immediately create a return on investment — in fact, it often does the opposite — there is still no hesitation to go with the bigger is better model of property development.

It will feature a 100-yard long Adzillatron – the entire length of the field. It’s one thing to hurl shrieking sixty-yard long ads at captive audiences; at one hundred yards, there’s really no getting away from them.

The best commentary UD has so far seen on this comes from a reader of SB Nation:

It’s pitiful.

But we’re Vegas and we do stupid shit like this all the time.

Margaret Soltan, January 16, 2013 2:13PM
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