Perfect Opportunity for Bengals to Build Indoor Facility

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(02-21-2021, 02:05 PM)Pat5775 Wrote: Does anyone have any idea why Mike is so against building an indoor facility? At this point, it feels like he’s against it only because people have been hounding him for it for so long.

I don't know that he's against it, per say.  They added the little walk through field to the weight room at PBS.  

Mike's #1 priority since his dad died has been buying up all the minority shares.  Paul only bought enough shares in the team to have a 51% controlling interest.  While it gave him control of the team, it denied the family a ton of profits.  Ever since he took over, Mike has been trying to buy those shares back and only within the last few years has he consolidated ownership of the team. It may seem silly, but most of the other owners are independently wealthy from non-football related businesses. There's a huge difference between 51% and 100% of an NFL team's profits.

There is also a big snag in building an indoor facility at PBS.  Katie has explained that they can't build it there because the city ran the power lines for PBS underneath the practice fields and it's not really feasible due to that issue.  The facility would have to be off site.