Reply #28: Houston is RIP-OFF CITY! Anytime there is a concert they rip you off & treat you like a prisoner....

[AnArmyVeteran]

In Houston, promoters treat people like prisoners to be exploited once inside their publicly built and paid for stadiums and facilities. In Reliant Stadium in Houston they charge you $20 to park on a parking lot that was built in the 60s. And that's the cheap parking. To get closer you have to pay $50. The Reliant Stadium is like a prison once you enter. If you are thirsty you have two choices: pass out and die from dehydration or buy one of their high priced drinks. They won't let you bring coolers in.

The Astrodome sits just a hundred yards away from the Reliant Stadium and it was a perfect place to watch concerts, football, baseball and everything else. The University of Houston played UCLA there in the game of the century. Elvis played there. The annual rodeo was there. The seats were all padded and very comfortable. Now, when you go to the Reliant Stadium or Minute Maid field you sit on hard wood chairs that bite into your back.

I'm tired of the prostitution of American by corrupt corporations. How were we able to have stadiums around the country with cool names like the Astrodome, Candlestick Park or Soldier's Field and still have the performers/teams still make profits? If they could do it then, they could do it now. But greed is the driving force behind everything that is happening today. If I had the money I would build my own stadium and make a mockery of the naming of it. I would call it the Tampon Stadium or Feminine Hygiene Spray Field or Anus Ointment Arena. But seriously, any and ALL stadiums should be owned completely by the people. Everyone in a county or city should have the right to buy shares in the stadium and in the teams that will play in the stadium. No one should be allowed to own more than 1% of the total shares. That way all of the money would go to the people, instead of a handful of ripoff thugs who rape the consumer. And just think... if 30,000 people in a city or a county owned a part of a stadium or team attendance would go up. They would not only be 'owners', but fans too. And as owners they could hire the people necessary to run the team and stadium, with strict guidelines that their customers would not be ripped off. But that idea is too socialistic I guess. I proposed this idea in a conservative blog and was savagely attacked. They all cheered on team owners who used taxpayer money to enrich themselves.

Lastly, Bud Adams was the owner of the Houston Oilers and Drayton McClain is owner of the Houston Astros. Their teams both played in the Astrodome. But then they demanded that the country taxpayers spend 55 million to renovate the Astrodome or they would leave. The taxpayers had 55 million stolen from them and the renovations were made, and then the teams moved away anyway, leaving the stadium empty and the taxpayers screwed. After 40 years of operation the Astrodome was still not paid for because greedy team owners funneled off every dime of profit. Conservatives seem to like it though because it's 'free' enterprise.