๐จ๐ Todd Boehly on the need for super-stadiums in English football amid varying opinions over what to do with Stamford Bridge:
"America early on realised that these were more than just sporting competitions. They were gathering the people, and you had to think, 'How do I entertain the five-year-old kid? The eight-year old kid? The 10-year-old kid? The 12-year-old kid? The 70-year-old grandparent?' How do you figure out how to make all this work together?"
"No one does it better than the NFL. The Super Bowl is a pinnacle of an event. Every year, the Super Bowl gets bigger and bigger and bigger. It really becomes a week. Now there's a week-long celebration of the Super Bowl."
"If you look at the culture of football, over 140 FA Cups have occurred. We're at 60 Super Bowls. We had the benefit of starting later. We didn't have a lot of the history that still continues to drive the sport.
"Stadiums are now becoming entertainment environments, and in Europe, generally, stadiums were there to hold the fanbase or audience during the game."
"You didn't think about showing up early. You didn't think about staying late. Jerry Jones has turned 'Jerry World' (the AT&T Stadium, home to the Dallas Cowboys) into something that's active 300 days a year. Events, corporate retreats, all types of things. When he built that stadium, he had that in mind."
"You look at the stadiums here, and they're structures that don't have the entertainment elements. Weโre starting to see that change. Tottenham built a great stadium, theyโve got a lot of activity there. Arsenal have a good stadium. There's going to be more and more stadium development."
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