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Thunderbeast

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2. I am pretty sure that some small settlement in Florida or Texas is kicking their chops...

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2022, 05:06 PM

Jun 2022

...just waiting to starve education and healthcare enough to find a cool billion for a stadium. Public investment to subsidize gazillionaire owners and players is nearly ALWAYS a losing financial proposition. Stadium blackmail is the business model.

Sorry, Cleveland. Either your local taxes are going up so that $300 tickets to football games can be had for eight days a year, OR you can take your team swag to Goodwill and watch the team evacuate.

Some lucky fans in the sunbelt should start saving up for those $30 beers!

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Cleveland Browns reportedly want new $1 billion stadium, likely publicly funded [View all] Auggie Jun 2022 OP

If the owners had to pay Casady1 Jun 2022 #1

I am pretty sure that some small settlement in Florida or Texas is kicking their chops... Thunderbeast Jun 2022 #2

With all the championships they've brought home to Cleveland, it's no wonder Bristlecone Jun 2022 #3

and they just spent a quarter of a billion on a QB with dozens of sexual assault accusations fishwax Jun 2022 #5

They've had 4 winning seasons since 1990, and the last time rsdsharp Jun 2022 #4