Florio revives old narrative

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(02-09-2022, 11:34 AM)ochocincos Wrote: I'm still trying to understand how Cincinnati is somehow a worse destination than places like Detroit, Cleveland, or Buffalo.
DET gets to play in a dome, but everything else is worse.
CLE really is a more miserable city than southern Ohio, and they've lost far more than the Bengals the past two decades.
BUF also is not growing. I was there this past Summer visiting family. Other than seeing Niagara Falls and maybe the short hop over to Toronto, there's not much in BUF other than some good food.
Plus, the weather is terrible in all three of those other cities compared to Cincy.

I don't really understand the narrative that the franchise is terrible either.
Sure, there's no indoor practice facility right next door owned by the Bengals, but they only need to use it a few times a year, so I don't think it's a big deal to share with UC.
The stadium itself, while lacking some features, shouldn't really matter to the players.

Anecdotal, but when I lived in Colorado the Denver sports talk scene often talked about how players should come to Denver because of the great Colorado weather and environment (excluding the bad hail and snow) and it never failed, they always took a jab at the cities you listed including Cincinnati. "Why would anyone want to play for and live in..." DMac, Vic Lombardi, Mark Schlereth, Alfred Williams (the former Bengals player), Joel Klatt and other respected guys who were enjoyable to listen to always defended beloved Colorado at the expense of other places. I found it to be a strange narrative.