Steve King: The Browns raising ticket prices is brazen

Look, I get it.

I get it all, in fact.

I really, truly do.

I get it that Browns season ticket prices, and their ticket prices overall, are among the lowest in the NFL, and have been for a while. They will remain so as well.

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That's a real positive for the Browns in a league where some teams' ticket prices are about the same as the gross national product of a few Third World countries.

But at the same time, I am offended – completely turned off – that the Browns, as they announced recently, are raising season ticket prices for the fourth straight season.

It's a bad look. It's a really, really bad look – a terrible look, a horrible look, an embarrassing look.

The Browns, based on their talent level should have contended – seriously – for a Super Bowl berth last season. That they didn't win the AFC North championship, didn't even make the playoffs and failed to post simply a winning record, or, more specifically, just a .500, break-even mark, making 2021 one of the most disappointing seasons in the entire history of the club, dating all the way to the Browns' inception in 1946.

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It's inconceivable what happened. Moreover, it's unacceptable, completely so. No excuses.

Realizing that, then, the Browns raising ticket prices is brazen. It's tone deaf.

In fact, it, too, is inconceivable, and completely unacceptable..

Think about it, if you hired the XYZ Construction Company to build you a house, and XYZ, at the time that the job was to have been completed, had finished less than half of it, and what was done was shoddy work, would you jump at the chance to re-up with the company to finish the job the way it was intended, and at a slightly higher price?

Of course not!! No one in their right mind would!

But that's exactly what the Browns are doing. They didn't hold up their end of the bargain, and yet they want their customers to pay more.

Wow.

Less really is not more in this case, and it never will be, nor should it be.