PayCor is Fine

Who needs a dome?

Look, we all know that Jabroni Jimmy Haslam is playing hardball to get a dome in Brook Park for the Cleveland Browns.

Very few people, other than Haslam Shine Boxers, want this dome. This is Ohio, home of football! AFC North, regardless of your team. We play outdoors, like football was meant to be played.

But, because Jimmy Haslam is a politically connected pig at the trough, whom if he weren’t so rich and well connected, would probably be facing prison if he personally robbed those truckers, he might be getting some taxpayer cash.

Naturally, Cincinnati sees this and goes: “we gotta get ours.” I get it. But you guys don’t need a dome, either.

As a Clevelander, and thanks to my wife who bought us tickets, I got to go see my annual Browns loss in person this year when they came to town last month. It was my first visit to PayCor.

My impressions are, like GABP, you all didn’t invest in escalators like Cleveland did. Perhaps that is why they think Cleveland Browns Stadium is a dump: escalators don’t age well! And while I didn’t like my circuitous hike up to the cheap seats, it was old school.

When we got there? I don’t know if it was the bowl shape or the seat angle, but not a bad view. Better, in fact, than FedEx (currently NorthWest), M&T, or Cleveland.

We ran into a rare owner of a Phil Dawson jersey. My late mom had this custom made. Imagine the team captain, somebody they put the franchise tag on to keep his salary down, and imagine no jersey for sale. That’s how Cleveland and the Haslams treated perhaps one of the greatest New Browns. No wonder he left for San Francisco.

My brown paper bag had two messages: 1.) SELL THE TEAM JIMMY and on the back, 2.) NO DOME.

Netflix was there with this creepy inflatable promoting the Squid Games, Season 2. Never got into that, but they’re also doing a Call of Duty takeover leading up to its release.

As we went to the game with my sister in law’s husband and his brother and wife, visiting from down under, of course we had to pose with Cincinnati’s equivalent of the “FREE STAMP”, the Sing the Queen City sign.

According to the Library of Congress:

The sculpture, by Tommy Sheehan, features the words "Sing the Queen City," a line from the last stanza of the poem "Seven Hills and a Queen to Name Them." In the early 1900s, residents often referred to the booming new city along the Ohio River as the "Queen City of the West."

It wouldn’t be AFC North football without shirtless fans, would it?

We’ll see if Jabroni Jimmy’s shakedown happens, but if it does and Cincinnati gets a cut, may I recommend not making it a dome and spending that money on a new arena for the Cyclones?

PayCor is fine.