The Relationship Between Ownership and Fans is on Life Support

[Essex Johnson]

(09-16-2019, 11:45 PM)samhain Wrote: We have much to do in this city is your reply?  LOL.  It's nothing compared to true metro area like Dallas.  Suburbs like Plano and Frisco are the size of Lexington or bigger.  The Banks project took forever to materialize and people here treat it like an entertainment miracle.  It's nothing compared to similar sites in Dallas/Nashville/Chicago, etc, some of which have several similar districts.  We're a cow town compared to those places.  Trust you.  Sure.

And perhaps people here wouldn't need to travel to see other teams if they had a product worth viewing here in Cincinnati.  Maybe if the owner worked to put out a better game day product, they'd stay put and go to PBS.  

People aren't going because the team sucks, the ownership has the public persona of a debt collection agency, and the game day product is well below sub par when it doesn't have to be, due to the fact that the owner sucks at what he does.

It's not the city, it's not the economy, it's not location.  It''s a flea market quality football team that has lost all interest from the casual fan.

I make a valid point that the main viable if you going to use as to best compare teams is city/metro size and some of throw in variables that very hard to support interests etc.. I can argue Cincinnati has more to do in a 2 hour drive than Houston  but again size of the city or metro area is a much clearer pictures besides if a city like dallas cant sell out a stadium because of other interests that makes them look like a very weak fan base over us with our size and interests.