Game Attendance = Awful

[kevin]

(01-23-2018, 11:28 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Peaked in '05-'06, when a SB was a thing people could realistically dream of.

Then they realized that no matter how good they are in the regular season, they will never win anything with Marvin, and Mike will never give them the last player or two they need. Then they lost to Mark Sanchez, TJ Yates, Matt Schaub.... got ran over by Ronnie Brown... etc..... and yet Marvin and Mike are still here, doing their thing over and over. Why would people want to pay large sums of money to see that?

It also doesn't help that the average ticket price has risen 50% and concession prices have risen 30% the last decade.

Actually the Bengals are near the bottom on NFL ticket and concession prices. Most NFL more expensive.  The problem must be the product on the field.  Since 2015 play-off season resulted in around 500 thousand fans in 2016, we must assume 2016 poor season caused near 20% or 75 thousand fan drop off in season ticket sales for 2017.  2017 not much better will cause poor off season ticket sales for 2018.  This is why they need to improve blocking and tackling and get more wins in 2018 for 2019 ticket sales. They should also consider adding a corporate name to the Paul Brown name on stadium, such as GE Paul Brown Stadium or CHASE Paul Brown Stadium to keep Paul Brown name but pump some corporate money into front office now in 2018, a millions making compromise on stadium name. This would not be the time to anger fan base more by going with cheaper players and even worse team, or raising ticket prices. If they could get some millions calling it 5th/3rd Paul Brown or Disney Paul Brown or Cinergy Paul Brown, just do it and take the extra millions ASAP.