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STEELERS, PIRATES WEIGH OPTIONS FOR THEIR PART OF STADIUMS

          The Steelers are considering the use of a 5% surcharge
     on tickets and the sale of PSLs "to make up a hefty portion"
     of their $76.5M contribution toward a new football stadium,
     according to Tom Barnes of the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE.  The
     Pirates are looking at three potential revenue sources to
     make up their $40M contribution -- ticket surcharges, PSLs
     and the sale of naming rights to the ballpark.  Most of the
     money for the $803M project, which includes stadiums for the
     Steelers and Pirates, is coming from the city, county, state
     and teams.  But a "small part of the financing is also
     earmarked from a controversial source: a proposed tax on the
     salaries of out-of-state baseball and football players who
     play here" (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 6/23).  In Pittsburgh,
     columnist Bob Smizik, on the Pirates: "A new stadium will
     draw fans on its own for a short period of time.  But
     baseball is what has to draw people over the long haul and
     there is no large body of evidence to suggest that baseball
     by itself can do that" (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 6/23).

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