We fight our political battles in stadiums. Because they're large, because they can accommodate all sorts of people, ... they become ideal places to stake your claims on what you want the United States to be.
This notion that stadiums are places that help generate economic development ... [has] been debunked over and over and over again.
I would argue that most of these facilities feel like no place, because they all have the same sort of arrangement of ads and same types of scoreboards, same sorts of rituals.
The country's first 'stadiums,' which took the form of circus tents or wooden ballparks, arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and were typically funded by entrepreneurs.
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