While I don’t think that the city should (or can) pay for a new stadium, I’m not against some minimal element of taxpayer involvement. San Diego is one of only a handful of cities that is a good destination for a Super Bowl. The financial advantages of that are tremendous. And IF they were to build a stadium in a central location there at Qualcomm, the multi-use advantages are huge as well.
In general, though, I don’t think the public should fund stadiums at all. To your point creechrr, as rabid as the fans are in the Midwest, they still raped money from the public to finance new stadiums. Totally upside down logic.