With the new rumors surfacing of a rebuilt Cleveland Browns Stadium, along with lakefront development surrounding it, there is really only one pertinent question: will the stadium have a roof or not?

The reports coming out don’t specify if the rebuilt stadium will include a roof, but to me it seems silly to spend $62,000,000 on a land bridge for access to a stadium that will only have 10 games (8 regular and 2 preseason), and maybe a Taylor Swift concert in the summer, if there is no roof-like structure in place.

Cleveland weather can be brutal like Minnesota, who has a beautiful roofed facility in US Bank Stadium. However, this is not about football and home field advantage with weather elements, this is about the economic vitality of Cleveland, Ohio.

Cleveland should be hosting B1G Championship games, Final Fours, WrestleMania’s, and other gigantic entertainment events instead of Indianapolis, Detroit, Minneapolis, and other comparable cold-weather Midwestern cities.

Why spend billions on developing only to make the major attraction of that development for a handful of dates? Just put a lid on it and that will make the stadium useful all year long.

-Ed in Columbus

@Ed_In_Columbus

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