All stadiums where sports are played that taxes are used to pay for them should be available for all to use.
If a local amateur football league, baseball or hockey team wants for form and use Tampa stadium, etc it is THEIRS, they OWN it.
Don't those stadiums let groups use them? Like the little league champions or whatever?
I don't know if all our grounds do, but I know quite a lot of the football grounds will let, say, the under sixteen finals be held there, or some regional under twelves matches and so on.
I'm talking about constant taxpayer use.
I heard an amusing answer to the question, "Is golf a sport?" "No if you can smoke a cigarette while doing something, it isn't a sport." :)
I like the idea that most golf courses are not public financed boondoggles, good point. I'd like to know what their environmental impact is though. It seems like they're pretty heavy on the weed killer around here and pretty hard on the water supply in dry parts of the country. I guess I'd rather just sit in the pasture while knocking off that bottle of scotch.
Yup, they sure use a lot of water...
Years ago, I played on a golf course in Las Cruces, NM, which is not too far north of the Mexican border...but it was bad-hair-day humid on that course. Very, very surreal.
Yeah, I'm sure those giant stadiums, baseball fields and ice rinks in FL don't use any resources.
Golf is a sport that people can play, often, well into old age. It's easy to learn and hard to be really good it. I like it!
I think baseball and some others can be played by athletic older people.
My point is that if we own the facilities we should have access, also I would like to see some of the same things golf does implemented, like pay by how you play, more charity, less perdiem, less expensive tickets (taxes pay for the venue and then we have to pay large amounts of money to go to the event, who decided this makes sense?), more player/fan interaction things like that.
