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madamesilverspurs

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15. Stadiums are our new temples,

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2015, 09:45 PM

May 2015

and professional athletes are the new gods, showered with absurd amounts of money. We prize the ability to throw a ball above an aptitude for teaching, and there's no way that can end well.

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Sacred Native Site to Be Buried by New St. Louis NFL Stadium [View all] icymist May 2015 OP

The capitalists want to destroy everything. n/t ms liberty May 2015 #1

I hope the stadium becomes haunted.... chillfactor May 2015 #2

Make the site a park and build the stadium elsewhere FLPanhandle May 2015 #3

exactly Liberal_in_LA May 2015 #4

Stadiums are the second-largest waste of real estate in this country Scootaloo May 2015 #5

Number 4: Art_from_Ark May 2015 #8

5. Cemeteries FLPanhandle May 2015 #9

Ironically that's what this stadium is going ot be built on Scootaloo May 2015 #11

Things you don't like =\= wasted space Taitertots May 2015 #22

Parking lots? bigwillq May 2015 #25

PLEASE x post in First Americans Omaha Steve May 2015 #6

Please, Omaha Steve, do so in my name. icymist May 2015 #21

So are the mounds still there and the area is pristine...? Oktober May 2015 #7

That's sad - now an off topic remark TexasProgresive May 2015 #10

The city/state is contributing $250m or $350m, depending on which source you believe LittleBlue May 2015 #12

what bonehead in the zoning or planning departments got paid off to approve this nonsense? niyad May 2015 #13

fuck sports stadiums. build them to last. NOT DISPOSABLE. OH NOES! its 10 years old!!! pansypoo53219 May 2015 #14

Stadiums are our new temples, madamesilverspurs May 2015 #15

ISIL invade Missouri while I wasn't watching :( PatrynXX May 2015 #16

Why dont they just tear down an abandoned mall or something and build it there?? cstanleytech May 2015 #17

FuxamatterwithUguys? Hoppy May 2015 #18

Another monument to the god of sport. oldandhappy May 2015 #19

Will the Rams have to sleep there the first night? name not needed May 2015 #20

A pic of the site pintobean May 2015 #23

So tired of sports in this country... F4lconF16 May 2015 #24

That is exactly the way that I feel. potone May 2015 #26

sometimes paving actually preserves sites better than excavation Kali May 2015 #27

The current stadium is 20 years old Go Vols May 2015 #28