Paul Brown stadium deal ending in 2026- will the Bengals stay

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(08-20-2020, 12:29 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: Portland has been mentioned as a possible move.. have you been to Salt Lake lately ?? going non mormon and they already have a NBA team... Chicago is the 3rd largest city with that market they could if they wanted... Columbus has also been mentioned as possible expansion.. it is way more than just OSU... I really could see Omaha though.. my bet though would probably be San Antonio or Austin

SLC is definitely a booming city. A good amount of tech companies are there now.

I doubt Columbus would do well with a team. And it's not because of OSU, but because ~60% of the football fans there are Browns fans, 25% Steelers fans (east side of town) and remaining 15% are Bengals fans. Or at least it seemed that way when I lived there 2008-2018.
If the Browns fans stuck by that crappy team for 25 years now when they've been abysmal, I doubt they'd switch their allegiance to a Columbus team just because they were local.