Have you ever been to Paul Brown Stadium?

[TecmoBengals]

(08-01-2022, 09:26 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Not attacking you, Tecmo, but I hear this a lot from fans, but more from visiting fans.

People have to understand what we are as a city and as a football team.  It is a small market, with a FRACTION of the population of places like Dallas, LA, etc.  Those mega-stadiums are incredible, but would we really want to share a stadium with another team like the Rams/Chargers and Jets/Giants?  That is one of the way they made those crazy expensive venues work.  They bring in double the revenue for one building.  

It just doesn't make sense to have a stadium for 8 home games (maybe 9, or even up to 11 if you count preseaon) that costs over $2 billion.  I believe it was built for less than half a billion and since it houses the corporate offices there are well, I think that is pretty reasonable for the area.

Little details that have been MASSIVELY improved since Elizabeth joined the fray (which I don't believe is a coincidence) like the WIFI, the sound in the stadium, the fireworks off the stadium roof, etc. are tangible upgrades that you can feel while not blowing the budget.  The Reds get this.  Really cool restaurants, themes (the big steam boat in the outfield with a roof viewing area), and the really nice concourses would not be hard to duplicate without breaking the bank. 

Sure, it may cost that much again to do a big overhaul of PBS, but if they get another 20 years out of it, the stadium should be a fun, competitive environment that brings money to the downtown and I also REALLY love the fact that you can walk to everything if you decide to stay overnight downtown.  The casino adding rooms (I think?) will only help make that experience more fun as well.

I have never seen a concert at PBS, but I have heard that the sound is really good which isn't always the case in some stadium venues (due to echo).

No attack perceived with your reply. 

I'm good with the stadium for its intended purpose, 8 NFL games a year with some other events or games peppered in. Comparing it to the latest expensive stadiums is just me dreaming big even though I know such a stadium likely isn't practical for Cincinnati.

Hopefully the Brown family ownership, seemingly through Elizabeth, continues to review ways to make the stadium an overall fun place to be for watching a game.