Michael "Mike" Brown (born 1937) is the franchise owner of the Cincinnati Bengals, an American football team in the National Football League. He is the son of former Cleveland Browns, Ohio State University and Cincinnati Bengals coach/co-founder, Paul Brown. Mike Brown assumed ownership responsibilities upon his father's death in August 1991.
In 1996, Hamilton County voters passed a one-half percent sales tax increase to fund the building of two ...
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Michael "Mike" Brown (born 1937) is the franchise owner of the Cincinnati Bengals, an American football team in the National Football League. He is the son of former Cleveland Browns, Ohio State University and Cincinnati Bengals coach/co-founder, Paul Brown. Mike Brown assumed ownership responsibilities upon his father's death in August 1991.
In 1996, Hamilton County voters passed a one-half percent sales tax increase to fund the building of two new facilities for both the Bengals and the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds. Brown felt Riverfront Stadium's small seating capacity and lack of luxury boxes prohibited the Bengals' success. In 1995, he announced that Cincinnati had breached its lease agreement when it was late by one week in paying $167,000 in concession receipts. He threatened to move the team to Baltimore if Cincinnati or Hamilton County would not fund a new stadium. The leverage of this threat proved successful as Cincinnati’s City Council and the Hamilton County...
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