The boosters and newspaper editors are warning of mass corporate exodus if we do not build stadiums and build them soon. Supposedly, the captains of industry will move the corporate headquarters if we do not furnish them with opulent skyboxes. This is pretty weak stuff even for sports hucksters. First of all, it's an insult to business leaders.
Business people have a tendency to go to the ends of the earth just to get it done.
60 and 70-hour weeks are typical. Silicon Valley might be the most apt example for these times, as home to the most important industrial revolution of the past half-century. Silicon Valley was devoid of major league sports when the computer revolution began. Pro sports was not even on the radar. The people who were transforming business didn't seem to care much about new stadiums.