The Stadium Hostage Guide: How Owners Extort Cities

Owners threaten to leave, cities pay up, and the con repeats. A VDG Sports field manual for reading how owners extort cities for stadiums and get away with it.

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Author: Vince Douglas Gregory

Vince Douglas Gregory is the 'petulant puppet master' of a sports media landscape addicted to scripted rage and performance art. As the architect of VDG Sports, he bypasses the corporate talking heads to expose the unfiltered truth behind the narratives. An unstable thinker and astute scholar, Vince thrives on dismantling the mediocre click-bait addicts who trade reality for engagement. If you want boring stats, go elsewhere. If you want the raw reality of the game, you’re in the right place. Consider yourself warned.
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