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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">https://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>
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No other sports league bilks the taxpayers as much as the NFL does, and 29 out of 31 current stadiums<ref>The New York Giants and the New York Jets share a stadium.  In 2020 the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers will also share a stadium.</ref> were built using millions of dollars in taxpayer funding.<ref name="HuffPost">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/taxpayers-nfl-stadiums_55f08313e4b002d5c077b8ac  One of the exceptions is MetLife 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>
    
As an NFL game ends and fans begin leaving the stadium, it is best to avoid the nearby roads.  One study showed that the ''average'' fan at many NFL games has a blood-alcohol level higher than safe level for driving as recommended by the NTSB.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/14/national-transportation-safety-board-drunken-driving/2158107/</ref>
 
As an NFL game ends and fans begin leaving the stadium, it is best to avoid the nearby roads.  One study showed that the ''average'' fan at many NFL games has a blood-alcohol level higher than safe level for driving as recommended by the NTSB.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/14/national-transportation-safety-board-drunken-driving/2158107/</ref>
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