Monday, January 23, 2012

Useless Informaation


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If your city hostss the Winter Games, it is like hosting 3 Superbowls per day for 17 days straight.
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jedwis said...

useless? I think not. I'm sure the cash registers are wore out after the 17 days. Here some useless info. My friend had a house near a golf course that hosted a major golf tourney. He rented out his house to a famous golfer and did it for a entire year of mortgage and tax payments. Crazy.

January 23, 2012 at 7:50 AM
SER said...

Jed, when Harley had it's 100th here people around here where renting out their whole house and some furnished 2 meals a day

I cannot immagine the amount of trash generated HOURLY.

January 23, 2012 at 12:21 PM
hale-bopp said...

From an attendance standpoint, that doesn't add up. A quick search finds that for the winter Olympics, Salt Lake City had 1.656 million tickets available. Super Bowl attendance varies from year to year depending on the stadium. Let's say 80,000 (since they try to hold it in bigger stadiums). That would be about 20 Super Bowls of attendance over 17 days, a lttle more than one per day.

Now that's just a raw attendance comparison which is not the only way to measure these things. With television revenue, hotel revenue, food, etc., it is plausible that the total economic impact could be equivilent of three Super Bowls per day for 17 days or they could be using a different metric entirely.

January 23, 2012 at 2:16 PM
Toad said...

SER, Good idea. Maybe Racine should host the Summer Olympics? Perhaps ORB'S can contact his buddy "The Mayor" for help with your idea?

January 23, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Toad said...

Maybe they could build It In the Mojave Desert? Lots of parking.

January 23, 2012 at 2:56 PM
kkdither said...

Due to the services necessary and the required building, planning, security, etc., many cities find it difficult to just break even.

January 23, 2012 at 4:34 PM
OrbsCorbs said...

I heard that somewhere, kk. I guess the idea is that the prestige it brings to your city is worth it.

January 23, 2012 at 10:44 PM
kkdither said...

The prestige and years of future commerce, tourism, etc... plus, the infrastructure improvement and additional buildings and facilities are a benefit to the area.

January 24, 2012 at 2:17 AM

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