Event Date: July 1st
Event Description: Breakers May Move
Source: United Press International
The Breakers' days in Boston may be numbered unless a stadium owner nearby is willing to make a deal that would keep the USFL club from seeking a home elsewhere, team officials say.
“We're at the point where if we can't get a substantially better situation, a better facility and a better stadium, we probably would go,” team president Bob Caporale said Thursday. “Given the current situation, we'd be hard-pressed not to.”
The current situation is this:
Officials at Harvard University apparently are not going to give up any space at their stadium and Nickerson Field at Boston University - where the team is currently housed -- is unsatisfactory. Billy Sullivan's asking price at Sullivan Stadium is too high.
To use the Foxboro facility -- home of the New England Patriots - the Breakers would have to pay at least $33,333 per game to the Sullivans. That is basically the same deal the Patriots have.
“It makes no sense whatsoever for us to pay the same as the Patriots,” Caporale said. “I'm very disappoionted. I don't think those numbers are even close to what we'd accept.”
But the Breakers are not totally forlorn.
“They (the Sullivans) may feel we have absolutely no alternative, so they may not want to be flexible. What they don't realize is we have a fair number of other options. They're just not in this area,” Caporale said.
The other interested cities reportedly are Memphis, Indianapolis, Orlando, Tulsa, Seattle, Portland and New Orleans -- but there is nothing firm.
“Even though right now it's looking bleak in Boston, we're here. We don't have a stadium deal in any other city,” Caporale said.
2 comments:
Regarding the Breakers situation, I would assume that Alumni Stadium in Boston's Chestnut Hill neighborhood, which is used by the Boston College Eagles, would also seem unavailable for the Breakers as a future home field for at least the 1984 season, even though the UPI article didn't mention it by name.
Any thoughts?
BM,
Thanks so much for commenting..........I think you are correct regarding Alumni Stadium...........Breakers are running out of options..........at least with regard to the Boston area......comments are always welcome and much appreciated...........thanks again!
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