07-19-2021, 03:09 PM
(07-19-2021, 12:34 PM)Whatever Wrote: PBS has an official seating capacity of 65,500, so an average attendance of 60k is still a lot of empty seats. Also keep in mind that the club was buying large amounts of tickets during the Green-Dalton era to keep games on from being blacked out, so those attendance figures are heavily padded. For the sake of comparison, the Bengals were bottom 5 in attendance 3 times during the '11-15' and never higher than 24th in that span.
When you can't fill your stadium with a playoff team, you obviously have issues beyond just the product on the field. I can't fault them for trying to fix the fan engagement/experience issues while trying to fix the issues on the field.
Having the Colts 90 minutes away also has a lot to do with that. Keep that in mind. Why the NFL has Cincy and Indy both at home at the same time never made sense to me, but it happens normally for 4-6 games each year.
