06-14-2023, 01:38 PM
(06-14-2023, 10:45 AM)Graphicguy Wrote: That ain’t happening….at least not in the next 10-15 years, if ever. Bengals, particularly the Brown kids, grandkids, etc, are more forwarded thinking than Mike and even Paul is/was. There’s no one…no entity…that I’ve even had a sniff of who would offer the Browns enough money to move. Even if they did, Browns consider Cincinnati home. They see the Bengals as a spotlight on the the Riverfront and a draw from probably Central OH down into KY, to VA/WVA, and that doesn’t include the ever growing support from Europe, whose fans spend money on Bengals Merch.
Maybe back in the day (as Mike did) it was threatened to move the team to get a new stadium. I don’t see that as a viable option for this team for no other reason I don’t see the Brown family (who will own this team for a very long time) making a move like that to go to another city where they may not be embraced nearly as much nor as well as Cincinnati does.
The Bengals were founded here. Impossible to see how that history would play out anywhere else.
Covered stadium? Meh….if they’re refurbishing Paycor, I don’t see them tearing down and building another stadium just to get a dome. Swimming pools? Seriously? ½ the season is played in the cold here. Not feeling that.
Refurbishment should take Paycor into the 2050s. I don’t particularly like the way it looks, but as others stated, putting up some large video boards, making the concourses a little more festive (vs the drab concrete and beer stands), adding some attractions like end zone “clubs”….and things of that nature would help.
A roof? I like football….I like it when it’s cold. I like it when it’s played in the elements. Putting on a dome, in addition to being crazy costly would make it too sterile. That takes the history, the soul out of this team.
It’s not who we are. We’re an AFC North team. WE’re gutty and gritty. We don’t need nor want any kind of dome for our home stadium.
I agreed with you when I was younger. At 64, I don't especially like sitting in the rain nor the cold. Putting a cover over most of the seating and leaving the field uncovered would suit me just fine. That said, I do not go to as many games as I used to so I don't really care if they enclose it or not.
