Blazer Nation is about to FAFO (1 Viewer)

[Trailblazers76]

These politicians, city council, whoever are playing hardball with this renovation to the Moda Center thing. They have no leverage here. Get it done or Dundon is going to walk and take the Blazers somewhere else. He has no loyalty to Portland or Oregon.

Fools saying "I don't care about sports, fix the potholes or whatever." They aren't fixing your potholes with Blazer money. Stop. The Blazers bring way more to the city than they're realizing or care about even. Stop this madness. Even Tina Cotek and the mayor of Portland are getting on it. Probably like wet noodles tho. They need to get in there and get er done.

Maybe I'm overreacting, but I don't have a ton of confidence with these old hippie, limp noodle politicians when it comes to important man stuff.

 

[julius]

wait...how is that Blazer nation that is going to fuck around and find out?

 

[blazerkor]

I don't know why this needed another thread but I'll bite. If the city is the sticking point, I'll find that hilarious because the city owns the fucking building and land. The state is going to shoulder the brunt of the cost with the jock tax, the county sounds like they're ready to sign on and I still can only find two of the twelve city council members who are saying they don't want to pay for the rest.

Dundon has already said he'll sign a 20 year lease at the same time as the money is passed and renovation plans approved. Dundon said it would be a commitment to keep the team here for 20 years so I'm assuming there would be massive penalties built in if the team left or just an absolute commitment that the team could not legally move for those 20 years.

I think all of this is being dealt with right now behind closed doors. I'd imagine the reason why we don't hear from the 10 council members who are on board is because there is an NDA that they had to sign to be involved with the negotiations with the team. The two council members who are against the funding refused to sign the NDA.

Those NDAs are probably something the governor and county board members signed too. So I think unless we hear that negotiations and plans have broken down, that we'll likely just get an announcement one day soon about what the new Moda... or hopefully Rose Garden, is going to look like and that the Blazers will be here for the next 20 years at least.

 

[Cugel]

Well PDX city council has a sterling record of accomplishments and achievements to make Portland the most liveable in the US. They definitely know what they are doing.

In fact you could do pretty fine by just doing the opposite of what PDX cc suggests.