Is MB Cheap really?

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(09-04-2019, 04:17 PM)McC Wrote: Okay, let me put it this way---even if he is a lousy businessman, and I'm not even saying he is, how many great businessmen have a business worth a whole lot less than 2 billion?  And he sure seems to always come out ahead in any business transaction.  I'm drawing a blank on the last time somebody bested him in a money deal. The point is, it doesn't really matter what kind of businessman he is. Now, you want to talk GM, that's a whole other discussion.

The NFL is an oligopoly so you can really only compare Mike Brown's business acumen to his peers within the NFL.  According to FORBES the Bengals' value is 30th out of 32 with the franchises worth less being the Detroit Lions and the Buffalo Bills.  Now, these 3 franchises are owned by two people who inherited the business and one guy who purchased the business in order to further a bit of an upstate NY monopoly on various sports.  It could be argued that the bottom-rung of value in the NFL is controlled by people who are less interested in football and more interested in making money (no sin there, just calling it what it is).


Additionally, the Bengals being worth less than multiple teams that have either moved once or more and/or expansion franchises could also be seen as a bit of a damning factor, as well.  But of course the Patriots are the flagship example of brand development as they were even more of a joke than the Bengals when Robert Kraft (a detestable, but self-made man...I think...I'm not looking it up now) bought them and increased their equity and his investment by actually providing a better and more marketable product.

So...at the bottom it's MIke Brown, another blue hair who inherited the team in Martha Ford, a guy who owned an NHL team first in Pegula, and above them are the new Houston Oilers and the new extra crappy Browns.  Not the most glorious company, I'd say.