How many Americans spend Thanksgiving Day watching football? The answer is millions. Football games have been a Thanksgiving tradition over the years. While high school students host their own games that day, many others spend the day at their hometown stadium or in front of television screens, watching an NFL or college league game while their precious school meals turkey are prepared at home. I used this example to highlight the importance of sport in our lives. Even on national holidays like Thanksgiving, American families find sports a rich topic to watch, discuss and gather together for a while. “Sport is bigger than life”, as an old proverb says (Bradlee). It's something that captures the attention of students in schools and universities, families at home and, of course, it attracts millions of people to the media, print and television. Sport has therefore always been at the center of economic investments, whether in the public or private sector. Over time, athletes became celebrities. We find their posters hanging on the walls of millions of children's rooms, their advertisements all over television. channels, and their images all over billboards in cities. In other words, they have become a kind of investment for their teams and their sponsors as well as for the media. This is why many cities have decided to use this cash cow. They realized that the popularity of these athletes was growing and they knew that any city that hosted a group of these celebrities would attract thousands of fans to watch, meet and cheer them on, which would turn a city into a tourist center ; with thousands of people coming in and out, generating millions in revenue for lo...... middle of paper ...... happened elsewhere in the city. Furthermore, the number of new jobs generated is not enough to justify spending half a billion in city funds to implement the new megaproject. Additionally, demographic factors and relationships between the city and surrounding counties will impact the feasibility of the project and the projected revenues that could transform the city into a tourism and sports center. Perhaps the only supporters of such a project are local coalition groups who can influence the city to fund the project to revive their businesses and use public funds to create new businesses for themselves . In summary, public financing of a new stadium is not recommended, and its impact on the local economy is small enough that it will not boost local economies and local government revenues...