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(10-06-2017, 10:37 AM)grampahol Wrote: Which is why it's just a business to make money and not a business to satisfy the local natives desire to celebrate championships. If anyone thinks the Brown family would gladly give up their wealth in exchange for a championship I have some prime ocean front, mountain view property in Nebraska to sell you. lol

Well if it's only a choice between going broke and keeping wealth, then I'm sure a majority of Bengals wouldn't be ragging on Mike Brown. There are still ways to smarly manage a team in contention year after year and still make money hand over fist in the NFL. To make Mike Brown out to be a genius or even very very smart is to ignore a lot of realities about the NFL. He inherited a team from his dad, who actually was a genius, and there is practically nothing Mike could do short of hurting the NFL's bottom line before he would lose his team. And given that there's no competition for entry into the NFL, it's not like MB had to outwit any other successful billionaires to keep himself an NFL team (I'm not talking about his buying out shares from a minority owner of the Bengals here). If this was pure real world capitalism, I'm not so sure Mike in his stubborn ways could have kept his company from going bankrupt where other highly motivated, smarter run businesses would have just taken over for him. Mike has happened into a situation where he has excellent leverage being one of only 32 entities that American cities have to compete with each other over. The man is obviously no idiot when it comes to understanding his leverage and used it efficiently (dare I say ruthlessly) to get a sweetheart deal out of Cincy. 

I understand that the reality is that MB is the owner of the Bengals, and no amount of wishing will change that for any of us, and therefore we all might as well deal with it. I'm simply making the point that I'm not sure MB is as much a genius as he's cracked out to be business wise. He is certainly smart enough to manage his situation that he was born into, but more than that, I'm not so sure. IIRC, the Rooneys are also owners whose main business is their NFL team. Comparing their running of their business tells me that there's more options available rather than just "giving up their wealth" for a championship.