03-11-2017, 09:01 PM
To be fair Brown doesn't owe fans a thing. Loyalty isn't a commodity you can take to the bank or even take someone to court over. If he bankrupts the team it's on him and not anyone else and so far that isn't in the cards. It's a profitable business and the only people he actually owes anything to are the stockholders of the Cincinnati Bengals. If you want demand that Brown owes you something buy stock in the team when and if it becomes available.
Sure, you can say he took advantage of the county for the stadium deal and he did, but that was with the blessing of the county elected officials. Hold their feet to the fire come election day, but chances are they're all out of office anyway by now.
Truth is that nobody has to like Brown. You are not and never have been required to be a Bengals fan. You don't even have to like football, but thanks to county officials if you live and work in the county you have to pay for part of the stadium. The only thing Brown owes you as a tax payer is to have a team play football in the stadium a minimum of 8 days a year. Sadly that is where his obligation to you ends. They're not even required to win a single game. From Brown's perspective I assume that is about as good as any business deal could ever get other than making a law requiring every single citizen of the county be required to buy season tickets every season as long as they live.
I'm not defending him, far from it, but man, you can't get much of a better deal than he got when Paul died and made Mike the king of the franchise.
Sure, you can say he took advantage of the county for the stadium deal and he did, but that was with the blessing of the county elected officials. Hold their feet to the fire come election day, but chances are they're all out of office anyway by now.
Truth is that nobody has to like Brown. You are not and never have been required to be a Bengals fan. You don't even have to like football, but thanks to county officials if you live and work in the county you have to pay for part of the stadium. The only thing Brown owes you as a tax payer is to have a team play football in the stadium a minimum of 8 days a year. Sadly that is where his obligation to you ends. They're not even required to win a single game. From Brown's perspective I assume that is about as good as any business deal could ever get other than making a law requiring every single citizen of the county be required to buy season tickets every season as long as they live.
I'm not defending him, far from it, but man, you can't get much of a better deal than he got when Paul died and made Mike the king of the franchise.
In the immortal words of my old man, "Wait'll you get to be my age!"
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.