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(06-04-2020 11:55 AM)converrl Wrote:  

(06-04-2020 07:45 AM)skylinecat Wrote:  

(06-04-2020 05:57 AM)converrl Wrote:  

(06-03-2020 05:26 PM)Cataclysmo Wrote:  Wow your plan for destroying UC football would completely devestate the Clifton economy

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No..the clifton economy rides on the back of something called "tuition" and "state taxes" as well as the endowment. UC wouldn't close if FB became FCS, and the Clifton economy would still thrive because of the significant student body that enrolls annually at UC and NEVER attends FB games (but donates to the AD with their tuition $$$ to the tune of 45% of their annual budget).

I’m surprised you didn’t fall over with how fast his joke went over your head. But to your ridiculous point that the downtown economy would somehow collapse without 10 Sunday’s worth of Bengals games every year, pre-covid downtown (away from PBS) was flourishing. You just had the new GE building built, the massive great American building was built, people are actually starting to live downtown again, and the restaurants have been pushing from OTR into downtown proper because the demand is there. None of which has anything to do with the 2-14 Bengals.

Your are hilarious! Does the development on either side of the Riverfront get built without a major league presence? No. Do you lose millennials and young professionals without major league presence? Yes. Does that cut into the downtown economy? Yes.

Find me a major metropolitan area without a major league presence...they are few and far between. The fact that a franchise is not successful does not mean that it will remain so...ask the New Orleans Saints or the Philadelphia Eagles or Denver Broncos...all of which were perennial doormats at one time...hell...throw in the Cubs and Braves if you want an example from MLB.

I know you hate MB and the Bengals, but MB will be dead soon and new ownership will take over...at that point, anything can happen. Major league sports are a DRAW, plain and simple. They aren't the sum total of the economy, but they certainly contribute.

Like I said, I don't want to turn Cincinnati into Dayton.

The city that I live in, Portland, has one of the most thriving, livable urban cores of any North American city. We don't have pro football or baseball. Columbus is another example. And Sacramento. And San Antonio. Plenty of smaller cities - Asheville, Portland (Maine), etc - have great cores without baseball and football.