Would you publicly fund another stadium or let the franchise leave Cincinnati?

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(01-14-2017, 01:22 AM)Benton Wrote: Vegas will take whoever. There's other cities that will throw money at an NFL team, especially one that stays competitive. Heck, look wt Jacksonville.

Not sure I buy it. The Greater Vegas area is actually about 100k less people than the Greater Cincinnati area, and a lot of them are transplants from other places. I'm not sure I see a franchise succeeding there. Will visiting Jag/Redskin/Pats fans REALLY want to go see the Bengals vs Cardinals or something?

$550m for the transfer payment, another $1b-$1.5b for a stadium (both the stadium and practice complex need to be indoors), not to mention the cost of actually purchasing the land.

I don't see anyone shelling out $2b+ to get Mike Brown's 26 year playoff win drought.


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CINwillWIN
Two cities in the past two seasons now have moved. On a perspective, I wonder how the fans of St. Louis handled not having a team to watch this past season...

As of right now, 32 teams. Needs to be expanded (in my opinion) to 40.

I do not live in the Cincy area anymore, but I do miss not being in the mix of things during the season. It is a void I tried filling by helping out our local semi-pro team here. Lasted for about three seasons. My heart just wasn't in it compared to the Bengals...yup, strange.

I would feel bad if the team moved, left Cincinnati without a team, much like the new dis-enfranchised fans of St. Louis and San Diego.




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That would mean eight more starting quarterbacks who are worse than Brock Osweiler/Jared Goff/etc. The quality of play would be so terrible in a 40 team league.