Monday, January 1, 2018

No, the Outback Bowl Did Not Rain $55 Million on Tampa Bay



A more conservative estimate pegs the Outback Bowl economic impact at $30 million a year. But that figure came from the non-economist "economist" Mark Bonn, who I previously exposed for using bogus and inflated numbers.

Real economists suggested the impact is closer to 1/10 of Bonn's estimates. But that's not the kind of number that gets tax dollars flowing to your private bowl game and funding the $993,000 salary of said bowl game's CEO.





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3 comments:

  1. Great reporting and thoughts Noah. Keep this blog going this year. It's make or break for the new stadium and really MLB in TB. Thanks.

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  2. The Bucs averaged only about 46K at their games this year (actual in-house attendance). From looking at that photo, there can't be more than 30K there. That upper deck is almost empty!

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    1. For the 2017 NFL regular season, the Bucs averaged 51,912 in-house attendance, 59,952 paid attendance, and 8,040 no-shows per game.

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