To be fair, it wouldn't have mattered who the Browns took.
With the price tag for new arenas pushing $2billion, shaking down local governments is getting a lot harder. As often happens MLB owners are behind the curve. The A's owners shit all over Oakland and upped sticks before they had the deal done with Las Vegas. Tampa Bay's owner went one better (or worse) he signed a deal with St. Petersburg/Pinellas County, then backed out. Unlike the A's the Rays run a superb baseball operation, but I'm damned if I know how these supposedly smart owners can be so tone deaf, ham-handed and totally clueless when it comes to dealing with politicians. The former president of the Miami Marlins, David Samson, has an interesting Youtube channel called "Nothing Personal". He is the only commentator I know of who actually has experience in extracting the money from local governments to get a stadium built and he put it very succinctly: if you're asking a local politico to give you hundreds of millions (or billions) of dollars of taxpayer money, it behooves you to act like you give a shit that they have a lot of other things that may be just as important (okay much more important) than funding a project that will further enrich them.
The Alamodome in San Antonio says "hi".
