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(06-12-2017 08:21 AM)dsquare Wrote:  

(06-12-2017 06:00 AM)Not Duane Wrote:  

(06-09-2017 10:57 PM)levydl Wrote:  

(06-09-2017 07:58 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  Maybe not, for L.A. or Oakland. But for a smaller market such as Cincy, the loss of an NFL franchise would be a big blow to our civic self-esteem. And I don't say that as a Bengals fan. The decades of their drip, drip, drip water torture performance on the field have made me totally apathetic about their product. But they are an economic engine for this area and losing the stature of having two big league professional franchises diminishes our national profile as a city.

The "civic self-esteem" argument is what the crony capitalist billionaire welfare queens have turned to now that the "economic engine" argument has been completely discredited. It would be weird if Cincinnati lost the Bengals, but we'd adjust.

I would rather the county randomly hand out money to people than give a penny of taxpayer funds to the Brown or Lindner families.

Would you feel differently if the County bought the franchise from the Brown family instead of paying for a new stadium?--thus having the season-ticket holders vote on personnel such as GM to run the franchise?

This would be a set-up similar to what Green Bay has....

Unfortunately the County could never get a billion dollars together, and the Bungles would refuse it anyway out of being difficult.

And the NFL will never allow another team to be publicly owned even if you clear those two hurdles.