07-27-2021, 04:46 PM
(07-27-2021, 04:25 PM)Essex Johnson Wrote: So actually less money than most owners when you account for the plus stadiums, endorsements etc.. most teams have. If I was an owner of bengals it would not be very hard to move the team and make big $$ , we will be lucky they stay after lease is up, most owners would take the $$ and run, if the Browns stay a credit to them.
You're leaving a ton out.
While the Bengals do not make as much revenue from their stadium they also didn't pay a cent for it either. Teams near the top, like the Cowboys, Giants, Jets, those are primarily privately funded stadiums. Jerry Jones for example paid for over 600 million of the Cowboys stadium's cost. There's also operations costs the Bengals have been spared as well. Hamilton County has picked up the bulk of those expenses as well.
This is before we even get to the fact the Bengals would make more if they had a better product, and did a better job marketing it. You're also looking at a snapshot of revenue when attendance was down. If you were to pull our attendance revenue from, say, 2003-2007, or 2012-2105 you'd find we'd be close to the middle of the league.
I don't think you can say with any certainity that if you switched the Bengals with another team in another market that they'd see an identical amount of revenue as the current team does. And the reverse is true as well. If you plopped the Chiefs franchise down into Cincinnati, with everything exactly the same outside of the teams themselves, they'd make more money.
Lastly, to give the Bengals credit for if they elect to stay is downright offensive. It would be borderline criminal for them to abandon this city after the sweetheart deal they were given by the county, and the return they've provided. And if you think they're going to find some other magical market that's going to provide them tons of more money you're sadly mistaken. Where would they go? St. Louis? Portland? Omaha? San Antonio? Even if they did decide to make the move, it's going to require a lot of investment on their part. A new city isn't going to gift them a stadium outright. Those days are gone, especially now coming off Covid reaking havoc on cities and counties budgets. There also going to expect investments into a practice facility and a modern front office. All of this comes with an extreme cost when totalled up.
