The Bengals Will Need A New Stadium

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(05-05-2022, 11:34 PM)Whatever Wrote: The Raiders are also a historically a cash poor team and had no issues coming up with their share of the stadium funds or relocation fees.  The other owners also go a lot easier on the cash poor teams when it comes to those relocation fees.  The Raiders paid half of what you're talking.  Not to mention that Brown could just build the stadium across the river or in another Ohio county and avoid relocation fees altogether while depriving Hamilton County of the tax revenue from the team and it's employees.  Team revenue is also going to jump with the new tv deal and he could sell minority shares(which would be a hot commodity right now) if he desperately needed quick cash.  Brown isn't stuck, by any stretch.  

It isn't going to come to that, though.  He doesn't want to move and the county doesn't want him to move.  Both parties have been working on an agreeable split of costs for awhile now.

Where would work? Newport/Covington is in no position to pay hundreds of millions/a billion dollars to anyone. Newport has a population of 14,000 people, Covington has 41,000. What other county in Ohio (that wouldn't be encroaching on the Browns) could afford to pay hundreds of millions/a billion dollars for a football stadium? One of the typical ways they raise money for a stadium is increasing sales tax, and increasing hotel taxes. Clermont/Butler/Warren county couldn't possibly create enough revenue through those means to cover that kind of money or have the infrastructure to support having visitors.

I did mention his only real answer to getting out is selling shares, which is lessening his (and his family's) control on the team. He's been spending years buying out minority owners to put the team more under their complete control, so he'd basically be just removing decades of his work.

The "position of power" that was claimed just isn't really so. He's a little late to be getting leverage by threatening to move. Where would he actually go? San Diego? St Louis? Neither of those places wanted to build stadiums for their previous not-Mike-Brown-owned teams. LA and Vegas were the big threatened locations the NFL used, and now they're used up. He's not going to get the outrageous sweetheart deal he got last time, there would be literal riots in Cincinnati. It's a different time.