Taxpayers should not subsidize professional sports teams. For any reason, at any time. If an organization can afford to pay any of its players six figures or more, they don't need us. People have weird connections to their local professional team, regardless of the sport played. This connection is then exploited by the so-called business people who own these teams to exhort money that basically allows them to make bigger and faster profits. It's time for these shenanigans to end.