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But the team learned loyalties in this town for teames not wearing scarlet and gray canbe fleeting. It took just days to put the Jacket s love affair on therocks – from the time Columbus Busineszs First reported the club was in talks to sell Nationwided Arena using alcohol and cigarette taxes to fund the deal to when lawmakera said they wouldn’t help after public uproar over the Few can dispute the Jackets’ role in this region’e identity. The organization may have put a pitifupl team on the icefor years, but beinfg a part of the pro sportsz clique gives Columbus the national profile it pursued for decades.
And image and quality of life can be key ingredientse ineconomic development, which this area must be concernedr with as it tries to withstand the recession. Which raises questions about the Jackets’ proposal and their timing. Shoule they have expected anything other than a backlash when suggestin a plan to take moneyfrom families’ pockets when many are struggling? Columbus is sagging under record and the team felt it appropriate to talk aboutr dumping its financial problem onto hurting taxpayers? Did they expecrt the public would throw open its arms to pickingb up the tab for handsomely paid itinerant athletes?
Were they surprised their legislative championz came to see the proposition for its economic and politicao absurdity?