Richard Sherman Comments on Publicly Funded Stadiums, Defensive Rules and More

June 8, 2016   ·   Tim Daniels   ·   Jump to comments

Seattle Seahawks superstar cornerback Richard Sherman stated this week that one of his top priorities if he were running for president would be eliminating the use of public money to build new stadiums.
Eric Mandel of MyNorthwest.com passed along the outspoken defender's comments, which he made during a radio appearance with John Clayton on 710 ESPN Seattle. Sherman believes wealthy team owners should be the ones footing the bill.
"I'd get us out of this deficit," Sherman said. "I'd stop spending billions of taxpayer dollars on stadiums and probably get us out of debt and maybe make the billionaires who actually benefit from the stadiums pay for them. That kind of seems like a system that would work for me."
He made those comments Monday. On the same day, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was in the Buffalo area, talking about how the Bills could use a new home field in order to "stay up" with other facilities around the league, per Tyler Dunne of the Buffalo News.
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