As infrastructure declines, ‘staggering’ amount spent on On NFL stadiums

68%--$308M—of the cost of University of Phoenix Stadium was publically funded.
68%–$308M—of the cost of University of Phoenix Stadium was publically funded.

Travis Waldron | The Huffington Post

When the NFL season kicks off Thursday night in New England, football fans will file into a stadium built with $72 million in taxpayer money. Compared to fans in other NFL cities, residents of Foxboro, Massachusetts, can thank their team for giving them a bargain.

Taxpayers have spent nearly $3 billion on the 16 stadiums that will host NFL games during the season’s opening weekend, according to figures in a new analysis from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, a Washington, D.C-based conservative nonprofit group.

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