Comments on: Domes 101: Just the facts on domed stadiums

By: mlrisner

mlrisner — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:40:28 +0000

I would trust wikipedia before I trusted anyone in Birmingham government. The domed stadium idea is dumb. I would love for Birmingham to have a professional football team. However, the people of Birmingham would not support it. The people of Alabama are too engrossed in University of Alabama or Auburn University football to support a professional team – look at the Jackonville Jaguars. The population is too small in Jacksonville and people are more interested in University of Florida football to support the pro team. The Jaguars want to draft Tebow just to increase fan support. Birmingham pro team would fare even worse. The city officials are stupid to even entertain the idea and the county was smart enough to bail out. Birmingham should fix the streets and build better transportation centers.

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By: plugher

plugher — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:01:59 +0000

Don't leave us hanging, what are the errors? If they are so glaring, you should be able to mention at least one or two...

And why can't Wikipedia be considered a valid, accurate source? Yes, some (a tiny minority) are badly inaccurate, but most of those are on controversial topics. The rest of the articles, especially the strictly factual ones, are usually at least as accurate as a 'real' encyclopedia and are usually more up to date. Usually checking the edit history will show which ones are to be trusted.

Also, are you denying that the dome is a really stupid idea for Birmingham? It looks like it exists simply to be the latest conduit to get tax dollars to the families/friends/business partners of the elected officials in charge of doling out the money. I'm sure the papers will be talking about the 'dome scandal' in a couple of years just the same way the JeffCo sewer debacle is now

By: jcmrebel

jcmrebel — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:43:26 +0000

Do you actually check facts, or just throw things out there? There are several glaring errors in this “factoid.” You do know that Wikipedia can not be considered a valid, accurate source, right?