Gruden and Zimmer extended....

[CrashDavisSports]

...now they are working on Marvins extension with the team. Also, Thompson is signed, which makes for the second year in a row since the new CBA, all Bengal rookies are under contract before the first day of camp. So far the CBA is working like it is suppose to.

Mike is hiring a couple more scouts, I am sure per Marvin's request, extending two of the better coordinators that we have had in a very long time (withstanding they don't get offered a head coaching job somewhere), improving drastically in the draft, and moving camp back home where it should have been to begin with. Outside of the practice bubble, I think Mike Brown and Marvin Lewis are really changing the culture of this team, minus Mikey boy still being a bit on the cheap side (but those pockets have dropped a bit of change in the last few years, starting to develop some small holes).

Let's hear it for a future!! Hip, hip, hooray! Hip, hip, hooray! Hip, hip, hooray!

 

[flamingrey]

On not taking advantage of the 85% capacity blackout rule:

“We’re going to stick with the old rule," Bengals owner Mike Brown told the Cincinnati Enquirer. "What we want to see are sold out houses and we want the stadium full with 65,000-plus people. We don’t want to get to just 85 percent or 55,000. If you think back when they passed the sales tax to finance the stadiums they did it so people could come downtown to the stadiums and watch games. They didn’t do it so people could sit at home and watch games on television."

Aside from the fact that Brownie boy has no idea what fans really want (if they wanted to come to the stadium they would, regardless of the game blacked out or not), if he were to take advantage of the rule, the blackout would be lifted once 85% of the tickets were sold. The Bengals would "lose" part of the revenue for any additional seats sold beyond 85% - which would go to the opposing team. Hypothetically, if every home game were to sell out, he wouldn't make about $500,000 in ticket sales over the course of the season. That's minuscule compared to the $16,000,000 in salary cap he'll be pocketing this season.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he still doesn't get it.

 

[DanBengalfan]

If you look up "stubborn" in the dictionary, there is a picture of Mike Brown.

 

[CrashDavisSports]

On not taking advantage of the 85% capacity blackout rule:



Aside from the fact that Brownie boy has no idea what fans really want (if they wanted to come to the stadium they would, regardless of the game blacked out or not), if he were to take advantage of the rule, the blackout would be lifted once 85% of the tickets were sold. The Bengals would "lose" part of the revenue for any additional seats sold beyond 85% - which would go to the opposing team. Hypothetically, if every home game were to sell out, he wouldn't make about $500,000 in ticket sales over the course of the season. That's minuscule compared to the $16,000,000 in salary cap he'll be pocketing this season.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he still doesn't get it.

Yeah, I can't afford to go to a game no matter what, so that didn't make me real happy, but when you consider he already discounted a lot of other seats, it sort of makes sence on his stance with this, even if it does make me mad.

The league had given teams the option of televising it with 85 percent capacity. But with the Bengals reducing the price of more than 14,500 seats (27 percent of Paul Brown Stadium), they weren't expected to also reduce capacity for a sellout.

 

[Cincyfan78]

Yeah, I can't afford to go to a game no matter what, so that didn't make me real happy, but when you consider he already discounted a lot of other seats, it sort of makes sence on his stance with this, even if it does make me mad.

The league had given teams the option of televising it with 85 percent capacity. But with the Bengals reducing the price of more than 14,500 seats (27 percent of Paul Brown Stadium), they weren't expected to also reduce capacity for a sellout.

They also have 2 sell-outs already, I believe.

With the cheaper tickets in the higher sections, as long as the team wins, I think they should get at least 6 of the 8 home games sold-out.

 

[kramer1]

They'll sell out every game. No worries.

 

[flamingrey]

I don't really care if he took advantage or not. That wasn't the point.

His actions + his response (as highlighted) = a man who still doesn't get it. That was the point.

 

[jwil007]

good home schedule...we will sell them all out