07-19-2021, 05:40 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.
That entire thing falls on the one and dones. I was there in the '80s. Riverfront was full and rocking. Super Bowl in '81 and '88 meant that playoff games were being won and there was some hope.
I'm not sure how it was in 2005 but i'd have to think that after such a long drought, it had to be pretty full and loud then too. The Dalton/Green era was filled with one and dones and came off the Palmer/Johnson era, more specifically '06-'10.
If this team gets a playoff win or two, plays in a CC or SB, you can be sure the stadium will be full and loud, no problem.
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