01-18-2025, 03:25 AM
(01-18-2025, 01:41 AM)BengalsLUFC Wrote: Hate to say it I love the place genuinely I’d move there tomorrow.
But what is there downtown? You’ve got the Bengals, Reds an old arena and Fc Cincinnati.
If the Bengals leave they would lose millions and millions of dollars a year. The international visitors are gone the people living out of state won’t come.
You can laugh all you like but if the city ***** this up Cincy goes from a must visit place to just a regular city.
Dude, you're talking just 10 days a year, 2 of which nobody cares about, and 1 of which is going to probably be in Europe this year.
I think because you are one, you're vastly overestimating how many international visitors are traveling to Cincinnati each year to watch a Bengals game. That's a "there's dozens of us, dozens!" moment.
4x as many people attend Reds games as Bengals games. Sure there's less people per game, but that doesn't matter when we're talking benefits to the city because that's 81 opportunities for people to get hotel rooms or go to restaurants vs 8. We get 5,000+ people per game coming in from Chicago 7x a year (because getting good seats here for a 3 game series even with hotels and such is often cheaper than going to 3 games in good seats in Chicago), and to a lesser but still significant amount with St Louis, Milkwaukee, and Pittsburgh, all 7x per year.
Hell, only 100k less people went to FC Cincinnati games than Bengals games, so it's not like the Bengals are single-handedly keeping this city afloat with hotel room booking and restaurant patrons.
If going from 3 professional sports teams to 2 in the city because we don't want to give our tax dollars to a guy worth multiple billions of dollars, so be it man. Cincinnati has probably never been and probably never will be a "must visit" place, and the Bengals absolutely do not move that needle on making it so.
Interesting how quickly it went from the city being "finished" if they leave to just being a regular city. Even though even without the Bengals there's only 26 cities in the country would have more major professional sports teams than our 2. We'd be fine.
Send Mike Brown all your English Pounds if you're so worried about him going broke if he has to tap into his billions of dollars of net worth to pay for his team rather than starting to argue on how we should spend our tax dollars on it. A whole lot easier to spend other people's money.
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