Bengals are having stadium issues

[gonzo1105]

There was a thread awhile back when the Bills were finalizing their new stadium and Oakland was moving to Vegas about who the most likely teams would be to move in the future and I'm pretty sure I was on the Bengals amongst others.

[Mike in Horseheads]

So the Browns want a new place and the Bengals want a new place then they should build right in the middle say Columbus and share the cheapskate dome.

 

Hell I was at Riverfront in 1976 for a couple of reds games , I thought it was a great place!

[Augie]

17 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

So the Browns want a new place and the Bengals want a new place then they should build right in the middle say Columbus and share the cheapskate dome.

 

Hell I was at Riverfront in 1976 for a couple of reds games , I thought it was a great place!

 

I was in college there about then and spent many an afternoon in the upper deck where nobody cared what you were up to. Watch some baseball, watch some boats go down the river. Wondering what class I was supposed to be in. Ahh, those were the days! 

 

 

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Edited Saturday at 08:18 PM by Augie

[Dan Darragh]

The Bagels should move to Nippert Stadium at my alma mater

[ChrisWatson#21]

I hate that the division historically belongs to the Steelers and Ravens.  Those are the teams that get eyeballs on T.V. Bengals and Brownies get the short end of the stick being stuck there.

Edited Saturday at 08:17 PM by ChrisWatson#21

[Mike in Horseheads]

3 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

I was in college there about then and spent many an afternoon in the upper deck where nobody cared what you were up to. Watch some baseball, watch some boats go down the river. Wonder what class I was supposed to be in. Ahh, those were the days! 

I was 16, a company was wineing and dining us in the area to get my dad to move there.  The Reds were loaded then

[Augie]

3 minutes ago, ChrisWatson#21 said:

I hate that the division historically belongs to the Steelers and Ravens.  Those are the teams that get eyeballs on T.V. Bengals and Brownies get the short end of the stick being stuck there.

 

The Browns should be stuck with a giant stick! 

[billsfan_34]

4 hours ago, jcamm1966 said:

I drive by it all the time , it's like the Browns stadium, problem it's right downtown, you basically park under a freeway to tailgate

Sounds like the Ohio way to me 😂

[Augie]

Just now, Mike in Horseheads said:

I was 16, a company was wineing and dining us in the area to get my dad to move there.  The Reds were loaded then

 

One of my college buddies was religiously going to games to see Pete Rose get hit #3,000. Too much beer and he had to take a leak at the wrong time. He missed. Poor Al. Some people just get bad breaks. 🤷‍♂️

[Dr.Mantis_Toboggan]

25 years? Modern engineering must be abysmal, meanwhile the Coliseum is still standing. Ruins technically sure, but it must be safe enough that they still give tours. My point being it would be cool to see these stadiums built to last the test of time, as something impressive for our descendants to muse on about what it must’ve been like to sit there “in these very seats” and watch Josh Allen barrel and hurdle over defenders in the days when football was still legal. We need to stop being a society that just consumes and wastes, built that which endures.

Edited Saturday at 08:56 PM by Dr.Mantis_Toboggan

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

54 minutes ago, H2o said:

The St. Louis Bengals?

They've already had four teams.  ¡No más!

[Augie]

1 hour ago, H2o said:

The St. Louis Bengals?

 

Makes more sense than the Utah Jazz! 😂 

11 minutes ago, Dr.Mantis_Toboggan said:

25 years? Modern engineering must be abysmal, meanwhile the Coliseum is still standing. Ruins technically sure, but it must be safe enough that they still give tours. My point being it would be cool to see these stadiums built to last the test of time, as something impressive for our descendants to muse on about what it must’ve been like to sit there “in these very seats” and watch Josh Allen barrel and hurdle over defenders in the days when football was still legal. We need to stop being a society that just consumes and wastes, built that which endures.

 

We can’t afford to put a dome on it. We definitely can’t make it last 2,000 years. 

[C.Biscuit97]

Honestly for awful and cheap Brown is, they have had a nice 20 or so year run. 
 

but I think he is one of the legacy owners (Bears, Raiders, etc) who aren’t kinda “poor” by owner standards because their whole wealth is the franchise. 

[Warriorspikes51]

Columbus or Louisville would be the obvious nearby choices

 

how about the Boise Bengals.  Idaho doesn’t have a pro sports team

Edited Saturday at 09:27 PM by Warriorspikes51

[Don Otreply]

St Louis, Oakland? San Diego tore down the Chargers stadium iirc, wtf are they gonna go? Ya just can’t trust the NFL to not fuh k over yet another American community, 

[HOUSE]

The London Knights ?

The Toronto A's ?

The Mexico City Drug Lords ?

 

 

Edited Saturday at 10:11 PM by HOUSE

[PromoTheRobot]

6 hours ago, Low Positive said:

The problem isn't that it's 25 years old. The problem is that it was built as cheaply as possible 25 years ago. Kind of like the Sabres arena. 

 

People B word about Key Bank Center as an extension of the Sabres. I don't get the problem people have with it other than it's not a palace.

2 hours ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

Columbus or Louisville would be the obvious nearby choices

 

how about the Boise Bengals.  Idaho doesn’t have a pro sports team

 

Boise State?

Edited Saturday at 11:42 PM by PromoTheRobot

[jcamm1966]

4 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

People B word about Key Bank Center as an extension of the Sabres. I don't get the problem people have with it other than it's not a palace.

 

Boise State?

 

Think it's cold and snowy in Buffalo yikes

[djp14150]

If Cincinnati was going to mayflower— where would the trucks go?
 

 St Louis?

Toronto?

London?

Mexico City?

San Antonio/Austin?

[Albany,n.y.]

4 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

That is all a complete lie 

 

The '90s bills were called the million dollar bills.. we had some of the highest payrolls in the NFL 

 

Ralph also made OJ Simpson the first million dollar player.. made Jim Kelly the highest paid player in the league.  Bruce Smith was the highest paid defensive player 

 

And the bills had a higher payroll than the cowboys and Jerry Jones in the SB in 93

 

Ralph was never afraid to spend money.  He made derrrek dockery the highest paid guard NFL history 

 

He said money on the wrong people

Ralph was cheap at various points in the franchise history. Sure, he paid his players during the Super Bowl runs, but he also cheaped out big time numerous times. He may not have been afraid to spend money, but plenty of times the only way to open his wallet was with a crowbar. 

 

The Bills are still the only NFL team to lose the #1 overall pick to the CFL.

 

The Bills lost players to the upstart USFL including Jim Kelly & Joe Cribbs. 

 

The Bills were too cheap to pay Jason Peters & traded him to Philadelphia.  

 

The only name coach Ralph ever hired was Chuck Knox.  (Marv was JAG when he was hired by his friend Bill Polian). That's because attendance had dropped to about 35,000 a game & he had to do something to bring the fans back out of desperation. This was a common theme in the 70s & 80s.  Bad attendance, spend money, cheap out again when the attendance improves, then be forced to spend again to get the fans back, In the mid 80s his cheap ways had turned the team into a laughingstock & attendance dropped so low, he was forced to spend to get the fans back.  The Bills were a complete laughingstock when Ralph had to pony up the big bucks for Jim Kelly.  It was always the same cycle over & over again.  

 

Fortunately, by the time of Ralph's final drought, fans were still coming, otherwise there would have been another threat to move the team like he had done years before threatening to move to Seattle.  

 

Ralph did many good things for the franchise, but he also hurt the team numerous times with his miserly ways.