Re: World Police & Fire Games brought more than $83.85 million in economic benefits to the area
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Date: August 01, 2015 02:34AM
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> > Do you really think that these piddly little
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> The World Police and Fire Games had 12,000
> participants. That's already over 1/3rd the number
> of those directly in attendance for the Boston
> Marathon. Do the restaurants and hotels cost more
> in the core areas of FFX county? Do more people
> travel to see their friends/family compete in this
> event vs that compared to the Boston marathon? I
> don't know.. but it all seems reasonable.
You don't read very well either. It would be about 1/3rd of the direct participation in the Boston Marathon (35,000) yet they're counting the dollars generated at more than half. Not counting that there are many more spectators and visitors for the latter. If you'd ever been to Boston around the time of the marathon then you'd realize just how ridiculous the comparison is. The whole area gets spun up for it vs just a few areas being blocked off in Reston that nobody other then the people living nearby even notice.
And you completely ignore the +70,000 attendees (+6X) at the Superbowl which, at least according to their numbers, would result in less than 3X what this supposedly did. Or the 500,000 people at Indy over a longer period of time. Again, ridiculous if you've ever been to either. Shit, on any given Fall weekend a major college football game gets +100,000 people with as many or more alumni and visiting fans travelling in.
> Do you think the county just pulled numbers out of
> their ass and completely fabricated them? Your
> logic seems a lot more delusional.
No, I think that they came up with very generous counts in a very intentional way in order to try to justify all of the effort, expense, and promotion that they put into it. That's not particularly unusual.