So does it make sense for a city perennially short on cash to help build an expensive stadium?

If this agonizing lockout drags into the fall, lots of big, expensive stadiums will be sitting around empty, unused and doing no one any good.

It is the notion of using public money to build an expensive stadium that steams him.

Prozone and Amisco are expensive stadium based camera installations focusing on player movement and patterns.

At a construction cost of approximately $1.6 billion, it is the most expensive stadium ever built.

But if football wins the day, the city and state are prepared to spend at least $600 million to help erect the most expensive stadium in the nation.

But that does not mean it makes sense to build an expensive and possibly unnecessary stadium just to keep the Olympic bid alive.

In many cities, money in the form of high salaries and expensive stadiums can buy good sports teams.

It's easy to take the view that in the face of such a disaster, building an expensive new stadium would be a sign of misplaced priorities.

But the most expensive big-league stadium is now being built in Seattle, for a projected $417 million.