07-21-2022, 01:06 AM
(07-17-2022, 08:53 PM)J24 Wrote: Seeing a lot of people online saying that the Bengals are Cash poor! Well if that's the case then why are they not doing a basic thing like selling the name PBS? If the Brown family is so poor and can not afford basic contracts then shouldn't they be doing more to add revenue?
Yeah, it's just ludicrous. I hate how this team does business sometimes. The truth comes out on the Bates offer ($17MM guaranteed on $75MM total... a paltry %) and now they can't vilify him anymore for being cheap and selfish. So they start talking about how they lack "liquidity" to offer guaranteed money since it needs to go in an escrow account. Round and round we go. One excuse after another. It's just ludicrous.
I mean, if any of that is even true, they need to sell the team. They're in the wrong business and out of their depth. There's a waiting list on season tickets, their merch revenues from across the country are presumably higher than ever- while their future couldn't be brighter- they still have $10-20MM in cap room depending on what happens with Bates... if you're crying poor like this, you need to sell the team. Full stop.
