Thirty years after the Browns left Cleveland because they couldn't get a new stadium, the Browns are attacking the law that was passed to keep the Browns from leaving Cleveland in order to get a new stadium.

Thirty years after the Browns left Cleveland because they couldn’t get a new stadium, the Browns are attacking the law that was passed to keep the Browns from leaving Cleveland in order to get a new stadium.

  • @jqubed@lemmy.world
    11•6 days ago

    Even if the Browns manage to circumvent the Modell Law, they still need to strike a deal for public financing for a domed stadium at Brook Park. And they need to make it happen without the issue being put out to vote, because the citizens of very few if any cities, counties, or states would vote at this point to devote taxpayer funds to the construction of stadiums for sports teams with values approaching, if not exceeding, $10 billion.

    I still “love” how the Rams left St. Louis because they couldn’t get taxpayers to build them a new stadium, but went to Los Angeles and spent $2 billion building a stadium themselves, without taxpayer money.

    But they tried to stay incorporated in Missouri to avoid California taxes and labor laws.