07-26-2019, 06:35 PM
(07-26-2019, 04:00 PM)grampahol Wrote: There will never be a lack of local politicians more than willing to delude themselves into believing they could and should have an NFL franchise even if it means evicting half of a section of the cities residents to install all new parking lots not to mention a stadium itself. After all, what city wouldn't want to go deeply in debt for a few decades at least, put up with protests from non-football fans, go under the microscope of legal investigations, bribes and such to land one of the worst run franchises in the modern era? What a win-win for everyone, huh?
Think about what downtown Cincinnati was like before the stadium was built, and then think about what it is now. Over the last 20 years Cincinnati's become revitalized IMO. While I don't pretend to know the ins-and-outs of Cincinnati and Hamilton County politics, from the outside looking in on the Kentucky side of the river it kind of looks like what they've done has been working (outside of losing the Promowest music venue to Newport). Hell, even Kentucky's riverfront (Covington/Newport/Bellevue) have cleaned up in that timespan.
