How is this a story? Off season. Sigh.

They also plan on getting the $.05 back for all can and bottle deposits.

Speaking of recycling, I see all the same lame Bengal jokes have been posted once again.

County Auditor Dusty Rhodes initially supported the stadium deal—partly as a matter of civic pride. But now he feels differently about the costly legacy that has grown in the arenas’ shadow—and believes there’s plenty of blame to go around.

The county, he underscores, has used some of the tax dollars earmarked for the stadium on things like a road project and a new waterfront development. “They just went nuts spending this money for stuff that was not envisioned,” he says.
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I can’t possibly cover this whole issue in a comment. But the WSJ article is the definitive independent investigation of this issue, and is worth a read. They do blame the team, but put the bulk of the blame on the city, county & the surrounding counties and the state for not pitching in. Here’s a link:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704461304576216330349497852.html

But the difference here, of course, is that the Steelers know how to run a franchise whereas the Bengals only know how to run a franchise into the ground……

Note: They won’t do that.

I can see why Bengals fans would be put out by this.

of course, this assumes the team has a positive association with the fanbase. it also requires the team to invest (the real businessmen in the nfl know you spend money to make money) in the marketing of the team, and by creating value for your business partners.

the quotes from mike brown’s mouthpiece indicate he doesn’t spend much in this area, and he gets what he pays for…..

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Well we were sort of forced to do this after that Bengals/Ravens charity basketball game idea fell through. Shame that T-Sizzle could make it. Heard he ended up tearing his achilles “working out”

Since the Bungals open their season in Baltimore in the Monday night game they’ll need the extra cash for all the body bags they’ll have to buy for all their injured players”

At least until Ray Lewis retires it isn’t a bad idea to stock a few.

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The taxes the voters voted for to pay for the stadium has nothing to do with the deal over concessions, maintenance, etc. They city/county was insistent on dictating the site so could develop “The Banks” and what will be more tax dollars by the time the project is finished than tax payers shelled out for their portion of the stadium. The only difference is people voted for the stadium tax. The city just uses taxpayers money for the Banks, and leaves the rest of the city in shambles, over what amounts to an extremely unpopular project. If the city had the taxpayers interest in mind the deal wouldn’t have been so sweet. That deal was done for cronies of the County Commissioner, and City Planner. What Mike Brown did was assure the Bengals would stay in Cincy for years and decades to come, by ensuring that a sustainable maintenance and upgrade plan existed. One, unlike some other stadiums, that was designed to make it last and not let it rot like so many others.

2) Point it at your foot

3) Pull the trigger

That was easy

To the fan who was talking about the beverage vendor situation, wow…just wow. There’s frugality then there’s penny wise and pound foolish. Not to mention just plain WRONG to treat fans like that when the situation is really the fault of people you hired.

Baltimoresohard and chokes all the time. Arrow up. The bengals will beat the ravens twice this year.

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LOL, you bengal fans are so cute. Now run along and leave the football trash talk to the big boys, Baltimore and Pittsburgh.

To continue, this is the Bungles and they don’t know how to ask for money because they hardly spend a dollar on anything/anybody.
Welcome to Price Gouging 101 from the Browns!!!