The Bengals Will Need A New Stadium

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(05-05-2022, 09:48 PM)Emeritus Wrote:

After all this time of making team friendly deals for his organization after losing year after year.. Your now suggesting to me that Mikey can't get a deal with the county or another city for what he wants. After making an improbable run to a SB that energized a region! If you weren't laughing you'd be serious.

It's a different time now from when the Paul Brown Stadium deal was made. Here's the NFL stadiums opened since 2010 by % of total cost being publicly funded...

Rams/Chargers: 0%
Jets/Giants: 0%
49ers: 9%
Falcons: 17%
Raiders: 38%
Vikings: 45%

...Mike Brown is going to have to pony up huge amounts of money if he wants a new stadium. If he wants to move, he'll have to pony up even more, so that threat rings hollow. Having a good run for 1 year out of 31 doesn't suddenly give you "a position of power" to get hundreds of millions/a billion dollars from taxpayers.

Nobody is going to look at the 11yr/$110b TV rights deal they just signed and think "oh hey, these guys need OUR tax dollars". That's not even counting all their tickets, merchandise, concessions, gambling money, sponsorships (the NFL got $1.8b in sponsorship money in 2021)...

In 2001, the NFL had about ~$4b in revenue. In 2019, that number was ~$16b, before the new $10b/yr TV rights deal. The tolerance for paying for stadiums for a league that will be raking in WELL OVER $25b/yr in revenue by 2023 is small and getting smaller every year.