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City Gives Back to Fair-Weather Sports Fans

By Burt Safer | Dealer staff writer

Tue, Apr 29, 2008

Fair-weather Trail Blazers fans
wait for the streetcar in Portland

CINCINNATI - In approving the streetcar plan last week, the City of Cincinnati is making a bold change in its approach. Over the years, both Reds fans and Bengals fans have been coddled by the city, with over half a billion spent on two stadiums, when one stadium would have worked perfectly fine.

But what about Cincinnati's fair-weather sports fans? They haven't really been Reds fans since 1990, and many still haven't gotten over Super Bowl XVI. By approving the streetcar plan, Council member Chris Bortz says the city is repaying these fair-weather fans for venturing downtown, despite the lack of a winning sports team.

"It is time that the city recognize that fair-weather fans are people too," said Bortz.

"Although Reds fans and Bengals fans are also welcome to use the streetcars, this was really for the fair-weather sports fans," continued Bortz, "Well-meaning people who will most likely never go to Great American Ballpark or Paul Brown Stadium."

"And we can understand why the fair-weather Reds fans and fair-weather Bengals fans would want to avoid the stadiums as much as possible," he said, "That's why we designed the streetcar route to go in the opposite direction, all the way to Uptown."

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