Dialogue among a few Cleveland City Council members got heated Thursday over a vote to approve naming rights of Browns stadium as Huntington Bank Field.
In its previous deal, the Browns received $6 million annually from FirstEnergy to name the lakefront stadium.
But now the Browns won’t say how much Huntington Bank is paying to name the stadium – and wherever the Browns call home for games in the future. The Browns lawyer refused to answer Cleveland City Council on Wednesday, saying the dollar figure is “proprietary.” The stadium lease includes no provisions that would require the Browns to disclose their profits from the deal publicly. The money — along with other team revenue sources, like the sale of broadcasting rights for games — goes to the owners, so they can use it to pay their share of the city’s 25-year-old debt for stadium construction.
Euclid High School's school board last week unanimously renamed the field at Euclid Community Stadium after former varsity football coach Tom Banc, shown here in 2019. : Euclid’s school board last week honored former legendary varsity football coach and athletic director Tom Banc by naming the playing field in Euclid Community Stadium after him.the Panthers on Friday played their first game at the newly coined Coach Tom Banc Field, following the board’s Aug. 28 vote.
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