Mike Brown I love You.

[grampahol]

If football had never been invented nor developed none of this would matter. The truth of the matter is that it really doesn't matter except for the parts of our brains that thinks it matters.
Other than it's a bunch of other guys out playing a game none of us even get to participate in who seem to represent the city of Cincinnati only in the abstract does it matter in the least. 
They don't actually represent any of us except for losing an inconsequential game that makes billions in profits that none of us (or very very few of us) gets to enjoy . We as fans never get even the slightest cut of the absurd salaries paid to guys who don't even live in the city. (Well most don't anyway) The team owner is not answerable to really anyone in the city and for all intents and purposes can at any time decide to leave town along with the entire franchise and say tough luck Bengals fans and good luck ever getting another NFL franchise again. And for all these wonderful benefits we get a losing team that hasn't ever won a championship nor a playoff game since the current owner has actually owned the team and for all of your loyalty and support over the years we get exactly nothing in return except for some mildly entertaining fun every once in awhile . Yup, that's certainly worth the billions in profits Mike Brown and family have extracted from the good people of the city . So the question begs, does any of it really matter one tiny iota?  Not nearly as much as many of us thinks it does. If the team were to leave town I suspect that the city of Cincinnati would be ok. There might be a short period of adjustment while the loss of revenue was made up in other ways, but in the long run the city and county would likely be better off without this team with its perpetual broken promises and baggage of being known as the city of losers..  You know you're not losers, but you'd never know it by thinking that the Bengals actually represent you.  They represent their own profits and little more  .