(04-03-2025, 12:50 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Here's the full text of the article

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6248228/2025/04/01/bengals-evp-katie-blackburn-stadium-deal/

(04-03-2025, 06:24 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: There's no way they don't exercise the 2 year option. It's all a negotiation.

Quote:“We’ve all been working really hard on looking at a lease extension and renovations that might be part of that,” she said. “And so there are a lot of great ideas out there. It’s just finding a way to bring it all together, make sure everyone’s on the same page, and pulling it together. We seem to have a lot of work to do to make that actually happen.”

(04-03-2025, 07:07 PM)QueenCity Wrote: The board is taking it in stride per this article - https://www.wlwt.com/article/hamilton-county-commissioner-paycor-negotiations-bengals/64380396?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&fbclid=IwY2xjawJb5cVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSOAtqXlkKHCXx7usDOwWgcFAp8Wb2HyX9UjzrK4vF5XL66jd7Wi-Gj96Q_aem_4yDViymYXoTfL5VbpY_eUw

Summerow Dumas thinks Blackburn's comments were designed to move the negotiating process along more quickly.

"I think it's really strategically to try to move us a little faster, but I'm very confident in the speed that we're taking," Summerow Dumas said. "We're doing what we need to do to be good partners with the Bengals."

(04-03-2025, 07:38 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: I used to think that there's no way any city would accept the Bengals because of Mike Brown and the way he operated things, but now, with Burrow, Chase, and Higgins, it does worry me a little that maybe Katie could move the team.

I hope the city sees how much money they'd lose by letting the team move and does what it takes to keep the team here, so let's just hope that Katie's smart, loyal, and reasonable.

I'd literally be destroyed if the team left.

(04-03-2025, 07:38 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: I used to think that there's no way any city would accept the Bengals because of Mike Brown and the way he operated things, but now, with Burrow, Chase, and Higgins, it does worry me a little that maybe Katie could move the team.

I hope the city sees how much money they'd lose by letting the team move and does what it takes to keep the team here, so let's just hope that Katie's smart, loyal, and reasonable.

I'd literally be destroyed if the team left.

(04-03-2025, 01:11 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Wouldn't the ownership have to first offer someone else to purchase the Bengals before it could be moved out of Ohio due to the Art Modell Law when he took the Browns out of CLE? Or would that not apply when the county taxes stop? I would think it would apply indefinitely if the County helped fund PBS and they would have to build a whole new facility that is not taxpayer-funded to get out of this law?

https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-9.67

EDIT - Honestly, I also really dislike how cold KB operates. Hardlines everything. Doesn't seem to have a compassionate bone in her body.

(04-03-2025, 03:11 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Bengals are stuck.

They have done zero due dilligence with even remotely thinking about moving the team. No city, plot, plan whatsoever. Plus the 500-600 million dollar relocation fee. There is just no chance. 

The city has them by the balls.

(04-03-2025, 08:12 PM)Frank Booth Wrote: those guys would be retired when and if the bengals leave cincinnati

(04-03-2025, 10:40 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: IF they decided to move tomorrow, there's a lot of steps they'd need to go through. Approvals. Studies. Negotiations with a new city, etc. It's 5 to 7 years at fastest and the league might shut them down.

They don't strike me as the type that would want to relocate too.

This is all about trying to get the state and county to kick in as much as possible.

(04-03-2025, 11:54 PM)sandwedge Wrote: Huh? Don't tell us her bluntness hurt your feelings

(04-03-2025, 01:20 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote:
It appears Bengals could not renew the lease and then give 6 months notice. The Bengals offering someone the opportunity to buy the team still gives the team control. They set the price so they could ask an outageous price, the same price they could get from another city to move.

(04-03-2025, 03:11 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Bengals are stuck.

They have done zero due dilligence with even remotely thinking about moving the team. No city, plot, plan whatsoever. Plus the 500-600 million dollar relocation fee. There is just no chance. 

The city has them by the balls.

(04-03-2025, 03:31 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I'm progressively hating Katie more with every time she talks to the media.

Lets say you leave, and you take the risk that nobody is going to buy the Bengals from you (which I don't believe you'd do while Mike is still alive). Where are you going that's going to give you a big piece of land and a taxpayer funded stadium? Not only is that time largely over with a lot of cities voters rejecting deals, but also give it to YOU, the Brown/Blackburn family specifically. Everyone knows how you operate.

You don't have the money to build a Patriots Place or Jerry World complex anywhere so you'd largely be in the exact same situation elsewhere soon enough. Hell, you won't even extend your sack king DE and one of only three great players on your team, how are you going to pay the hundreds of millions of dollars relocation fee?

Stop being putzes, you became billionaires thanks to tax dollars and turned around and made Bengals tickets the 7th most expensive in the NFL. F that. Now use your own valuation to pay for your own continued wealth increase. No more tax dollars to sports teams.

(04-03-2025, 08:12 PM)Frank Booth Wrote: those guys would be retired when and if the bengals leave cincinnati

(04-03-2025, 10:40 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote:
IF they decided to move tomorrow, there's a lot of steps they'd need to go through. Approvals. Studies. Negotiations with a new city, etc. It's 5 to 7 years at fastest and the league might shut them down.

They don't strike me as the type that would want to relocate too.

This is all about trying to get the state and county to kick in as much as possible.

(Yesterday, 09:08 AM)ochocincos Wrote: It doesn't "hurt my feelings." What she says or does doesn't affect me, personally.
She just doesn't seem to care about anything.
She operates like a robot.
Leaders are expected to show some empathy toward others.
I don't see empathy in the way she communicates.

(Yesterday, 09:39 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Why would you say that? They moved the Browns to Baltimore in the middle of the night. Takes two-year max to build a stadium somewhere and could probably get it done in a year if they pressed. 

(Yesterday, 09:42 AM)Sled21 Wrote: She would be a horrible leader if she showed empathy towards the city in negotiations. That's when sharks smell blood in the water.

(04-03-2025, 03:51 PM)Frank Booth Wrote: I look back and laugh when fans were praising katie blackburn saying she would save the bengals lol