Cincinnati Bengals could be moving to another city, warns owner's daughter

The Cincinnati Bengals could relocate retired of The Queen City if the franchise does not unafraid a caller lease for their stadium.

The Bengals person played successful 3 antithetic venues since their founding and person called what is present the Paycor Stadium location since 2000.

Paycor was constructed with the $555 cardinal successful nationalist financing the Bengals secured aft threatening to determination to different city. Hamilton County taxpayers refused to subsidize the project.

Years later, the squad looks to beryllium returning to the aforesaid leafage arsenic their existent lease nears its conclusion.

According to The Cincinnati Inquirer, enforcement vice president - and girl of proprietor Mike Brown - Katie Blackburn did not disregard the thought of uprooting the Bengals from Cincinnati up of the lease expiration adjacent summer.

'We play it time by day, and similar everything else, we conscionable proceed to person discussions, spot wherever things are, and past person to marque decisions astatine the due time,' Blackburn said astatine the caller league meeting.

'We emotion wherever we are…I deliberation that's a large happening for the city. I deliberation [the] determination [of the] stadium close present is good. Our stadium evidently needs to proceed to beryllium maintained appropriately, and you privation to support it astatine a definite level that's important, conscionable truthful that we're competitory with others,' she added.

'But you know, astatine the extremity of the day, we're playing it 1 time astatine a time, and it's conscionable we person to spot wherever it each goes.'

The outlet noted that the Bengals could widen the lease for 2 much years.

If they don't, Blackburn threatened that 'We could, I guess, spell wherever we wanted aft this twelvemonth if we didn't prime the enactment up.'

The hold is linked to the stadium renovation connection Hamilton Country floated past year, which could outgo astir $1.24billion. However, some parties person not agreed connected who pays the lion's stock of the bill.

While negotiations astir the lease renewal continue, determination is nary denotation of wherever the Bengals volition determination if don't scope an agreement.