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Cincinnati Bengals (2011 Season)

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JCOSU86;1895897; said:
Let's start the talk about 2011, the Bengals Super Bowl Year!
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Palmer's house now on market in Cincinnati

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Your move, Mike Brown? If you've got $2.1 million and are in the market for a five-bedroom, two-story property in Indian Hill, Ohio, then Carson Palmer's house is just for you. The Palmer house has finally hit the market after the process of getting it ready for sale started early last month. Located at 8885 Whisperinghill Drive, the house, which is made of stone and brick, sits on five acres and also features a gourmet kitchen, 5 1/2 bathrooms, solarium, swimming pool, spa, golf green and pond. The real estate listing calls Palmer's house "an exceptional home that exudes comfort, character and privacy." Since word of Palmer's house going on the market first surfaced, Marvin Lewis has said that the team is moving on without Palmer, taking him at his word that if he is not traded then he will retire after eight seasons.

Read more: http://cincinnati.com/blogs/bengals/2011/03/30/palmers-house-hits-the-market/​
 
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Meanwhile Mike Brown has threatened to sue the St. Xavier Marching Band if they so much as look on HIS field, demanded that season ticket holders also buy a parking space in his lot and renew their ticket licenses three months in advance of the season or he reserves the right to move their seats to the south end zone, and demanded that Hamilton County buy him a jeweled spittoon valued at 2.3 million as a part of the stadium contract. (please note use of sarcasm font)
 
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Bucknut24;1908347; said:
so I was reading on the Bengals message board that they would love it if the Bengals drafted Stanzi, apparently Palmer didn't throw enough pick 6's last year
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Hard to take that message board seriously. There must be something in the water in Cincy.
 
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The Bengals have contaminated Hamilton County with their intense level of Suck. I think it's high time we sell Cincinnati to Kentucky before it spreads further north......

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704461304576216330349497852.html?mod=e2tw

A Stadium's Costly Legacy Throws Taxpayers for a Loss


By REED ALBERGOTTI and CAMERON MCWHIRTER

CINCINNATI—Here in Hamilton County, where one in seven people lives beneath the poverty line and budget cuts have left gaps in the schools and sheriffs department, residents are bracing for more belt-tightening: rollback of a property-tax break promised as part of a 1996 plan to entice voters to pay for two new stadiums.

The tax hit is just the latest in a string of unforeseen consequences from what has turned into one of the worst professional sports deals ever struck by a local government—soaking up unprecedented tax dollars and county resources while returning little economic benefit.

With a combined estimated cost of $540 million, the stadiums—one for football's Bengals, the other for baseball's Reds—were touted by the teams and county officials as a way to generate cash and jobs. The Bengals, who had threatened to relocate if they didn't secure a new home, drove negotiations. And it is that deal—the more lucrative arrangement struck with the teams—that has fanned the county's current struggles.... (cont'd)
 
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But according to research by Judith Grant Long, a Harvard University professor who studies stadium finance, the cost to the public was closer to $555 million once other expenditures, such as special elevated parking structures, are factored in. No other NFL stadium had ever received that much public financing.
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Robert Boland, sports business professor at New York University's Tisch Center says that while the Cincinnati deal was skewed, it's important to remember there were two sides at the table. "You can't blame the Bengals at all for negotiating the most favorable deal they can," he says. Hamilton County was a "willing participant."
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Negotiations between the Bengals and the county were ultimately handled by a three-person county board of commissioners. One of those commissioners, Bob Bedinghaus, joined the Bengals in 2001 and is now the team's director of business development.
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