More on the Rubber Bowl

[Blue & Gold]

Ohio.com on the sale of the Rubber Bowl. New owners still thinking USFL franchise.

[Zipmeister]

Ohio.com on the sale of the Rubber Bowl. New owners still thinking USFL franchise.

Thanks for posting B&G. I needed a good laugh to get my day started.

[LZIp]

35 million in updating the stadium

If there is any insurance for this, I sure hope these guys are getting it.

[pat]

There is no way this is going to happen. Riiiiight... a dome over a reconstructed Rubber Bowl! Sounds like a typical Akron/Canton boondoggle to me. Looks like zipsnation.org let some of its favorite Kooks out of the cage. How Akron can some people get? Can we say Ben Suarez or Gary and Karen Taylor anyone?

[LZIp]

There is no way this is going to happen. Riiiiight... a dome over a reconstructed Rubber Bowl! Sounds like a typical Akron/Canton boondoggle to me. Looks like zipsnation.org let some of its favorite Kooks out of the cage. How Akron can some people get? Can we say Ben Suarez or Gary and Karen Taylor anyone?

except the guy is from my area, which doesnt surprise me at all

[skip-zip]

I don't get it. How can anyone expect any return on investment by putting 35 million in that place? You can build a brand new football stadium for a minor-league football team for that amount.

[Zipmeister]

I don't get it. How can anyone expect any return on investment by putting 35 million in that place? You can build a brand new football stadium for a minor-league football team for that amount.

Beer sales.

[Dave in Green]

@skip-zip, I think they sincerely believe that they are not minor league. The term that comes to mind is delusions of grandeur.

[ZachTheZip]

Get the USFL associated as the official NFL minor/developmental league and that's chump change.

[infofan]

While i wont argue this is dilusions of grandeur, their idea isnt just a minor league football team. It is to create a new venue to rent out for entertainment and sports. If domed it would be the largest indoor arena in Ohio. therefore basketball would be a possibility as well as football and concerts and graduations and trade shows. Maybe even soccer and hockey. The idea has some merit. To build an 8000 seat arena would cost us 60million plus.

However, With Akron Fulton still operating the same issue remains that they cant build higher than a certain point ( the light poles on field instead of on top)so Im skeptical that the FAA would ever sign off on such a plan. And as for 35Million? Can you say cost overruns? This will quite likely go the way of the Massilon sports arena back in the 80s