02-16-2025, 02:31 PM
(02-15-2025, 03:53 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: They're not cash poor. They're just cheap and archaic in the way they deal with contracts, saving as much as they can and 'dealing' with the money now. I've said it before...if anyone doesn't think the Bengals have mountains of money 'in the bank' operating the way they do over the last 4+ decades, they're just not paying attention. Especially recently with the way the NFL has pumped loads of money to each and every NFL team.
They are near last in amount of revenue they generate (around 70-80M or so), yet receive over 400m in revenue sharing last year or 2023. They are also still last in the league in total value per Forbes. Lions and Bills are 31st and 30th (this year over 5 billion in value, yet still last)
Anyways the NFL (Cowboys, Rams, Patriots, Giants etc) made the Brown family billionaires, so yeah they have money. The 'small market' argument that a few use to defend them is a bunch of horseturds these days with that amount revenue sharing, and as you said with their model-model of contracts and such.
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