Originally posted by TV-aholic: Indy is a prime example of what investing in Sports can do for the entire community, even if they are not sports fans themselves.
You guys are all so crazy that your sports teams have to sneak out in the middle of the night just to get away?
Originally posted by TV-aholic: Indy is a prime example of what investing in Sports can do for the entire community, even if they are not sports fans themselves.
You guys are all so crazy that your sports teams have to sneak out in the middle of the night just to get away?
Originally posted by TV-aholic: Baltimore's Lost was Indianapolis' gain.
You still got stuck with the sneaking team and they will eventually do the same to you if you don't feed them properly. I agree with you that professional sports can be a big boost to a city's economy, but it can also be an exercise in chasing moonbeams and throwing taxpayer money into the toilet (same goes for public transportation systems). In most cases, the endeavor is a 'loss leader' for the community. I wouldn't call a professional football team's existance as proof of something to do (nightlife) in a community simply because it is only 8 real games per year. Still, I'm not sure why anyone would claim that there isn't stuff to do in any decent sized community. Indy has plenty to do for anyone. Try living in a town where 'something to do' involves cruising the car back and forth along the street that actually has a stop light or going down to the QuikE-Mart to see the new video game they got. mushu_jj can probably attest to that level of 'stuff to do' in a community. Indy is at least big enough that CSI would consider doing a spinoff there.
But, having an NFL team and NBA team, with world class facilities, does attract businesses to the market. It is what seperates us from a similar market like Columbus, OH.
No, no CSI for Indy. Close to home was bad enough. I'll let London or Melborne be the next BEST place for another CSI spinoff
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Originally posted by Obveeus:
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: Baltimore's Lost was Indianapolis' gain.
You still got stuck with the sneaking team and they will eventually do the same to you if you don't feed them properly. I agree with you that professional sports can be a big boost to a city's economy, but it can also be an exercise in chasing moonbeams and throwing taxpayer money into the toilet (same goes for public transportation systems). In most cases, the endeavor is a 'loss leader' for the community. I wouldn't call a professional football team's existance as proof of something to do (nightlife) in a community simply because it is only 8 real games per year. Still, I'm not sure why anyone would claim that there isn't stuff to do in any decent sized community. Indy has plenty to do for anyone. Try living in a town where 'something to do' involves cruising the car back and forth along the street that actually has a stop light or going down to the QuikE-Mart to see the new video game they got. mushu_jj can probably attest to that level of 'stuff to do' in a community. Indy is at least big enough that CSI would consider doing a spinoff there.
Originally posted by Obveeus: mushu_jj can probably attest to that level of 'stuff to do' in a community. Indy is at least big enough that CSI would consider doing a spinoff there.
Well lets see. There's always going down to the elevator and weighing yourself, sitting in the big closed down meat packing plant parking lot tossing a football and hiding beer from the cops and then there's latenight trips to McDonalds in the neighboring metropolis of 10,000 people late at night. Oh and we don't have stop lights in the place I went to school. 4 way stop signs get the job done. I also bet none of you ever dug a hole at a friends house and threw an actual mud wrestling party.
Actually, in all honestly, aside from those ideas for fun, we had one of the world's only blue water lakes 30 minutes from us. Anyone in any true midwestern city has heard of Okoboji and the tourist trap it has become.
Originally posted by TV-aholic: No, no CSI for Indy. Close to home was bad enough. I'll let London or Melborne be the next BEST place for another CSI spinoff
There was always the talk of CSI: Des Moines but the rest of Iowa was not about to help pay to put up sets in a place us educated Iowans call North Missouri.
