Posted on 10/18/2024 7:19:21 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The National Football League’s Cleveland Browns are leaving the shores of Lake Erie.
The Browns plan to leave their current open-air stadium in the city of Cleveland for a yet-to-be-built domed stadium in Brook Park, Ohio, according to a press release from Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb that was later confirmed by the Browns owners.
Jimmy and Dee Haslam, the principals of the ownership group that owns the Browns, notified Bibb of their plan to move on Wednesday night, according to Bibb. He announced the news in a scathing Thursday press release in which he called the Haslams’ choice “driven by a desire to maximize profits rather than positive impact.”
“They had the opportunity to reinvest in Cleveland, transform the current stadium into a world-class facility, enhance the fan experience, and remain highly profitable,” Bibb said. “We put those options on the table in good faith. Unfortunately, that was not enough.”
In a joint statement, the Haslams said it was essential that the team had a domed stadium for “year-round activity,” and the economics of building a dome on some designated land that was still on the lake in the city of Cleveland did not make sense.
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It seems nowadays many teams get only 20 years or so out of a stadium , before it’s time to build a new stadium.
Yeah but it's stupid to build a dome in Cleveland. No one wants to go there. (No offense to yinz living in that great town)
The real issue is no one wants to watch Deshaun Watson play football.
Disgusting waste of tax payer money. They should have put the roof on it when they built the present stadium, which by the way is good as new.
Disgusting waste of tax payer money. They should have put the roof on it when they built the present stadium, which by the way is good as new.
The Browns need a football team before they gay new stadium
It's only bad during November and December. So that's just four games per season.
If I'm you, I'll go to a game before November.
Note that after reaching 4 Super Bowls while playing at The Met, the Vikings haven’t been back to the Super Bowl since.
* Plastic video game. Very dom. Dom doms
vs.
* Green Bay
The Ice Bowl
* Soldier Field
* Cleveland Municipal Stadium
* Man Football
Dead
Skirts
“The Frozen Tundra”
Indoor stadiums are just another example of how the NFL went wrong in trying too hard to gain female fans.
Looks just as sterile as all the rest of the indoor stadiums.
Usually that’s when I turn the channel.
Those teams were tough guys.
I remember when Pittsburg played at Municipal Stadium years ago - both the town and the stadium were packed that weekend.
Sorry, but I couldn’t care less about the NFL, their millionaire owners, their prima donna players, or their fans wearing their $100 replica jerseys.
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