11-28-2016, 12:22 PM
(11-28-2016, 12:13 PM)grampahol Wrote: In Mike Browns defense his job as the owner of a business and this team and game IS a business is to turn a profit for himself and the stock holders. It's NOT a democracy where you get to vote on anything that happens with the business. Do you like the product? No? Don't buy. It's that simple. There are more than plenty of other products you don't buy that come from very profitable businesses. You don't have to like Mike Brown, don't have to buy his products and nobody is forcing anybody to be a loyal Bengals fan. That's the bottom line.
But from every angle I can see Mike Brown is a very successful businessman. From the time his father and himself founded the team /company it's done nothing but make money for him and his shareholders. There are 31 other products from the same league you're free to choose from at any time or choose none of the above and spend your time during football season doing other things . I'm pretty sure there will be no hard feelings from the Brown family. They wont send a thug to your house to say, "Buy our stuff or we'll break your legs."
Yeah - Unfortunately normal 'business' constraints don't apply to the NFL since there is revenue sharing. If the stadium sat empty he still gets a percentage of the pie. Said stadium was also largely paid for by the taxpayers.
So the - He owns the business and can do what he wants...doesn't apply.
And...to say an NFL owner doesn't care about his customers and then call him a good businessman... Good business people ALWAYS care about the customers.
Have you ever heard of an NFL owner losing money? It doesn't happen, because the salary cap is set at a percentage of total revenue. The owners are essentially guaranteed a profit.
The good owners, who want to win...manipulate the salary cap and invest a little more into their product so they can field a better team.
