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(12-15-2018, 04:17 PM)wolverine515151 Wrote: Hamilton county tax payers paid for the stadium and its upgrades. The Hamilton county taxpayers should get teams profits and voting rights for any decisions that are made.

Any hiring of coaches, signing free agents and draft picks, should be voted on by the fans in Hamilton county. The Hamilton county tax payers should file a class action lawsuit against the Brown family demanding most of the teams profits and decision making with the team.

The Packers fans own the Packers and they get voting rights to select a board of directors, who in turn select an executive committee that runs the team.  The executive committee selects the teams management.

The Packers fans, that own shares, get to voice concerns with the teams board of directors and team management at the annual meetings. 

It seems unbelievable that Mike Brown stuck the Hamilton county taxpayers with the stadium bill and its upgrades, then rules it like he's Genghis Khan.

He has promised an indoor practice facility and has not followed through on it. According to an article posted on this site the stadium has severe food safety problems. That indicates Mike Brown trying to save money by hiring the cheapest and most incompetent employees he can find. 

He also won't hire a gm or enough scouts so he can save money and put more of it in his and his families pockets

Article quotes :

"But Paul Brown Stadium alone ended up costing $459 million, including $51 million in cost overruns. In 2011, stadium costs made up 16.4% of Hamilton County’s budget, according to the Wall Street Journal. "

"We can’t afford for the fund to go bankrupt,” Driehaus said. 

Via Amansa Seitz of WCPO.com, the taxpayers in Hamilton County, Ohio already have coughed up $920 million for Paul Brown Stadium, which opened in 2000. With the county beginning to foot the bill for some of the team’s game-day operating expenses in 2017 (to the tune of $2.7 million per year and growing) along with other expenses will put the total cost to $1.1 billion through 2026, when the lease with the team expires.

The stadium bill and the upgrades have basically bankrupted Hamilton county, cost totals close to 1 billion dollars, and yet all the Bengals fans get is this hot garbage of a team.

The team is probably only worth 1 billion  so the Hamilton county tax payers should own the team. 

It is outrageous that Bengals fans get no profits from the Bengals, and no say in any decisions that are made. The only way to deal with a blatant asshole like Mike Brown is in the courts.

The Bengals have actually been recently footing the bill for stadium renovations even though Hamilton County is required to pay for all renovations per the lease agreement.  For example, the new scoreboards were primarily paid for by the Bengals.

Hamilton County was in breech of contract on the Riverfront lease.  They agreed to the PBS deal because Mikey had them over a barrel because of it.  They agreed to those terms to keep the Bengals in Cincinnati.  Hamilton County did try to sue the Bengals, and it was dismissed.  You can't just decide after you signed a contract and got what you wanted out of it that you don't like those terms and it shouldn't be binding.

Hamilton County can't even get their part of the stadium leases right.  When you look into it, they've breached the PBS lease several times.  If Mikey wanted to move the team by dissolving the PBS lease due to breach of contract, he could.  I'm trying to figure out how PBS cost so much and is so outdated compared to stadiums like the Browns and Ravens that opened around the same time and cost half as much. They paid twice as much for a stadium that wasn't even considered top of the line when it opened and was outdated within a decade of opening. They overpaid up front for a worse building by a huge margin.  Hamilton County is even more incompetent than the Bengals are.  Why would you want them to run anything?

NFL rules state teams must have a majority owner.  Green Bay's situation was grandfathered in.  Mike Brown couldn't hand the Bengals over to Hamilton County even if he wanted to. It's not going to happen.