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One of the exceptions is Giants Stadium, where taxpayers are still paying for the old stadium that was torn down.
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It is common for the NFL to receive massive taxpayer subsidies to build stadiums for it.  "Field of Schemes" is a website that exposes many of these ripoffs of the public by the NFL, such as how the [[Democrat]] governor of [[Missouri]] is "proposing to hand $400 million to [the] Rams owner," including $100 million to pay off the debt on the last stadium that was built for the team.<ref>http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2015/10/07/9912/st-louiss-taxpayers-hidden-rams-stadium-costs-arent-quite-worth-215m-but-theyre-still-pretty-bad/</ref>
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No other sports league bilks the taxpayers as much as the NFL does, and 29 out of 31 current stadiums were built using millions of dollars in taxpayer funding.<ref name="HuffPost">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/taxpayers-nfl-stadiums_55f08313e4b002d5c077b8ac  One of the exceptions is Giants Stadium, where taxpayers are still paying for the old stadium that was torn down.</ref>  "Taxpayers have spent nearly $3 billion on the 16 stadiums that" hosted the NFL games that opened the 2015 season.<ref name="HuffPost"/> "Field of Schemes" is a website that exposes many of these ripoffs of the public by the NFL, such as how the [[Democrat]] governor of [[Missouri]] is "proposing to hand $400 million to [the] Rams owner," including $100 million to pay off the debt on the last stadium that was built for the team.<ref>http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2015/10/07/9912/st-louiss-taxpayers-hidden-rams-stadium-costs-arent-quite-worth-215m-but-theyre-still-pretty-bad/</ref>
    
The league is composed of 32 professional [[American Football|football]] teams from the [[United States]]. Teams play sixteen regular season games. Each team also receives a "bye" week in which it doesn't play, resulting in a 17-week regular season. Twelve teams qualify for the playoffs, which culminates in the NFL's championship game, the [[Super Bowl]].  
 
The league is composed of 32 professional [[American Football|football]] teams from the [[United States]]. Teams play sixteen regular season games. Each team also receives a "bye" week in which it doesn't play, resulting in a 17-week regular season. Twelve teams qualify for the playoffs, which culminates in the NFL's championship game, the [[Super Bowl]].  
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