Funny how 20 years ago hardly anyone wanted to help Dave Checketts get a soccer stadium built in Salt Lake City proper. His promises of a soccer stadium revitalizing downtown fell on deaf ears.
We soccer faithful dreamed of riding the TRAX train downtown and having a bite to eat before the game. Then after RSL had won another match we would take TRAX back home and sing songs of victory while we made plans to return and spend more money downtown the next week.
But instead the best Mr. Checketts could get was a stadium in Sandy with little or nothing to do around there. You can take TRAX if you want but what's the point when you might as well drive your car.
Now our Salt Lake politicians can't make commitments or throw money fast enough at new stadiums and arenas for downtown Salt Lake in hopes of luring a NHL and/or MLB team to Utah. (see above articles)
Yeah, RSL has made a home for itself there and many of the games sell out, good for them.
But a sell out in Sandy isn't the same as a sell out in Salt Lake.
But I don't even go to the games anymore so what do I care?
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