They should have no claim whatsoever on the public purse. When people like DeVos make a bad investment or mismanage their sports business, it isn't up to the taxpayers to bail them out. Professional sports today, the province of billionaire owners and millionaire players, are like transnational corporations. They have no loyalty to the place where they happen to be located and no loyalty to their fans. They have to employ public-relations people to simulate some interest in the community and the fans, but it's just that, simulated.
Sports fans owe team owners and players no loyalty.
A sports team is just a business dressed up in hype. Fans should pressure their politicians to resist the shakedown routine. Let the team owners build their own facilities. That's what other businesses do. The St. Augustine Record and Morris Digital Works .