After a bill to fund the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Miami Dolphins, and the creation of a new Orlando soccer stadium failed, the NFL and the MLS have “shut out” Florida from their business dealings.
The NFL awarded the 2016 Super Bowl to the San Francisco area and the 2017 championship game to Houston, while the MLS formally announced that New York, behind a partnership involving the New York Yankees and English Premier League powerhouse Manchester City FC, would be awarded the league’s 20th expansion club, the Jacksonville Business Journal reports.
Read more on the NFL and MLS’s decision here.
[…] When Orlando Mayor Dyer wanted a new $110+ million soccer stadium built, Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs was rightfully hesitant. The deal needs at least $30 million from Orange County tourist tax dollars. County staff said just weeks ago that new stadium talks were “nebulous” – hazy, ill-defined and unclear. They also said the lynchpin of a deal depended on the state legislature passing tax breaks and incentives for a new stadium. That legislation failed. […]