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Originally Posted by alnorth
Well yes, but when a city builds a stadium, they are doing it only with the guarantee that the team remains in the city for X years. There is no guarantee of 8 games a year played in that stadium.
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Well they're pretty stupid for not writing that into the lease, and apparently the Bengals old lease
was written that way.
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Originally Posted by alnorth
If you don't like it, fine. Don't build/renovate your stadium, and lose your team to a city that will.
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And that's what I meant when I said "held hostage". Then again, I don't think the list of cities that are ready to poach a team is really all that long.