Bengals Strike 10 Year, $470M Stadium Deal to Stay in Cincinnati | Pat McAfee Show

Bengals Strike 10 Year, $470M Stadium Deal to Stay in Cincinnati | Pat McAfee Show

congratulations to the city of cincinnati and the bengals getting a $470 million renovation to payor stadium approved congratulations hamilton county and the bengals have agreed to principal terms for a new lease that keeps the team in cincinnati playing home games at por stadium through june 2036 with a 10 additional year option uh this is a significant day for the bengals in hamilton county as we secure the team’s future in cincinnati it remains an excellent venue yada yada yada okay good work go ahead tone
so uh i looked into it 470 million in renovations bengals will supply 120 million of that the other third 350 million is going to come from hamilton county uh that’ll be in taxes but there is no tax there is no tax increase though like everyone’s taxes are going to stay the same reallotting re re uh shuffling some tax money to go to a renovation for payor as opposed to going somewhere else
you know like
i’m not going to say it
but roads might as well no
potholes i mean i don’t know where tax money goes
in ohio i i have no idea where tax money goes out here we drive on the moon every day yes okay and i i in my head i’m like potholes is something taxes do they exist forever so i don’t know exactly where they all head to but if they’re just reshuffling some stuff i’m sure that won’t be met with any resistance
no i’m sure there won’t be any people that won’t be that’ll be okay with that whatever the case great venue great environment renovation will obviously do it some uh good i think every stadium getting renovated is good when does that start do you know anything about this aj i don’t know much about i know they’re i just heard them fighting for the last couple years but 470 million i’m guessing it doesn’t go nearly as far as we think it does what do you a new jumbotron and couple new seats like what can you do with 470 mil
i don’t know um miss blackburn is a tough negotiator yeah true
with trey hendrickson now jamar t feels like she was able to get a deal done uh they were able to get a deal done trey hendrickson feels like she’s uh you’re going to take this you’re going to like it she could do that with the jumbotron as well you know the good news is uh it did say any overages in cost anything over that 470 million the bengals will pay
okay so let’s make sure that’s going to be$469 million staying
under that is going to end up being 469 million we don’t need to be that’s bad business why do we want to do that and bengals fans fill that thing i mean bengals fans are gonna they’d fill up a
a dump yeah you know if it was a dump bengals fans would go that environment is a college atmosphere over there
yeah like i feel like to to your point right there with the fans they might add like suites you wonder if they add those field level suites or even uh kind of like what the pacers did with gamebridge where they put in like a whole another floor on the lower bowl of more
oh traffic yeah
everything is about traffic bathrooms in and out like toilets
yeah old buddy uh
balmer balmer saying toilets in his press conference obviously a lot of people mocked him for it we celebrated it because whenever you go to an event waiting in line to go to the bathroom is the worst part not only are you incredibly uncomfortable you’re also missing a lot of the action and if anytime you hear loud noise it’s like andrew in pain so that is a massive ordeal for a public outing especially whenever people’s home experiences have gotten so good
i mean we got quadbox with youtube tv obviously we have air conditioning we have to deal with people out there like people are cool with not going outside these days so like whenever you’re a venue you’re competing with a lot of [ __ ] these days you know gotta have high-speed internet for people got to have uh uh obviously convenience in and out you got to be able to like that’s all like a part of the live experience that everybody is going to have to kind of make a little bit better to keep people coming i think now granted bengals fans will probably tell me we’d go to anything and we saw that with the draft night where you guys went to the stadium and did a little run yep
on the hundreds or whatever
correct buy tvs we sold out
yeah we know the bengals fans are supported but we’re saying to fill these stadiums the nfl i think going forward understands i think everybody understands like hey we got to make this like a good experience for people this a lot of money and staying home we we love it because we’re getting tv deals but staying home is really good right now especially to watch sports and also like when we’ve been fortunate enough like when you go to a couple of these stadiums that are new or like are brand new it’s like every nfl stadium needs to be like this cuz like you go to like the raiders stadium like and granted we weren’t there for a football game it was wrestlemania but like that place is gorgeous it’s unbelievable and then you go to some of these other stadiums who need a facelift and it’s like these guys aren’t even playing in the same league here well just like everything there’s evolution you know the architects the design of stadiums like “hey we can build this one for sound we got this for this we found out if we do this.” like what ryan smith is doing right now with the the seats moving and then coming back so they can uh kind of handle the hockey rink as they have to move out for the utah mammoth and then just overnight if we got a jazz game let’s just go ahead and move that in here we’re good that’s going to cost so much money to make that happen but like that is what it is now like you got to create this [ __ ] you got to make it worthwhile for people to go like atlanta mercedes-benz dome that place has every seat has like a good angle of the field and then of course the the owner keeps all the prices for everything i mean you
the food is good the food is good
who is it who what’s the company
um not sedexo
we said the name of it like a thousand times when we were there
good food
aramark there’s i don’t remember but that you talk about atlanta though then you can go over to the hawks what the hawks did the hawks cleared out an entire section just made it like a standing room only free food free drink kind of mill around so you don’t feel obligated to sit in a tight spot it’s like people are getting creative now these stadiums are getting good excited to see what cincinnati hamilton county and the bengals come up with over there for payor stadium congrats to the bengals getting a lot of deals done anything with trey okay let’s talk a little bit about the nfl talking about hustle $120 million will be paid by the cincinnati bengals uh the other $350 million will be paid by hamilton county for renovations to payor stadium do we have any other information on this like is this supposed to happen this off season by next football season when is the renovation going to take place because anytime we see a stadium have to get worked on normally people aren’t allowed to be in the stadium while it’s getting worked on in stadium construction we assume long time so how do these renovations kind of work and did we know this was going to happen was there ever a chance cincinnati bengals were going to leave cincinnati
you know i i didn’t personally think there was a chance they were going to leave and i sort of lean on you know there’s a couple of of these other ones that are still like ongoing where it’s like there’s some doubt like cleveland’s doing one chicago’s doing one where it’s sort of like are they going to leave the city are they not and you know you can see like if you kansas city is another one if you’re some other place literally any other place you’re you’re dying for for a stadium right because of how many people come in because of what it sort of means for your area because you can build up all around with bars and restaurants and entertain i mean you can do you can do a ton of things so it’s like there is competition from some of these other places and what they do is they offer money right i mean they offer public money to say like we are going to lure you away and and that was obviously um that was going on here um i am happy just for me someone who i i like stadiums to be in cities i like cincinnati and where it is and i know for the fans like it’s a it’s a great spot um i was happy this got done um as far as the details i’m not sure but i don’t believe it’s going to affect anything football-wise like the only thing that really does affect football is when they are like materially changing the stadium um i think this is going to be okay because i haven’t heard that they’re going to play in another place but i would agree this is very very good news for cincinnati and then you know it’s it’s already been a place that people will want to play because they have joe burrow and they’re going to be very good and i think this helps

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