OT: San Diego 2024 Olympics bid

[Panamamike]

San Diego could never get its act together for such an event. Sadly, that's just the truth.

I believe only 3 Olympics have ever turned a profit. How is that money well spent for a city and state that is in a self-made fiscal hell?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140221-olympics-sochi-rio-de-janeiro-london-boris-johnson-montreal-athens-world/

[Mister Hoarse]

How many Stadium treads ya got mon?

[Stinky Wizzleteats+]

The city would be better off building out the convention center a new sports arena and an NFL top of the line stadium on its own dime than to invest in the Olympics!

[KNSD]

The cost of hosting an Olympic Games in San Diego could exceed $3 billion, USOC Chief Executive Officer Scott Blackmun said last year when the organization sent out feelers to mayors of 35 U.S. cities considered potential hosts.

Touted as the "Legacy Olympics" (and at $14.8 billion in London, a bargain compared to Sochi's reported $51 billion cost), these games would be, promised then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, "a force for regeneration," a chance to address East London's maladies.

3bil vs 14.8 and 51 bil... We are GETTING OFF CHEAP!

Hey, the contraction for We Are, WE'RE, is Selma!

[Lightningwill_420]

Scary gods, not the Olympics. Whoever gets the Olympics has the wrath of Hades to deal with.
Hades-et-Cerberus-III.jpg

[Mister Hoarse]

That dog chew his arm off?

[captaind]

That dog chew his arm off?

Sideswiped a marble column in a tragic selfie stick accident.

Cursed to drag that thing around for an eternity.

[Lightningwill_420]

That dog chew his arm off?

An ancient Raiders fan stole it.aldavis.jpegrat.jpgddjymo.jpg

[Stinky Wizzleteats+]

Mmmmm smoked marble.....

In my best Homer Simpson voice

[Boltx]

San Diego could never get its act together for such an event. Sadly, that's just the truth.

I was going to post something similar.

This city is so minor leagues in many regards.

[Den60]

If you think that getting the Olympics would solve our stadium issues, well it really won't. Not only would the stadium be much bigger than we would need for the Chargers the fact you will have a track around it puts people too far from the field. I did a little drawing to illustrate this. The dimensions are correct:

Stadium Dimensions (Reduced).jpg

[Mister Hoarse]

Those seats suck.

You would end up with something like the LA Coliseum.