I will buy one just to stretch out my legs

10/30/2009 1:28:31 PM #

I am one of those grabbing a sign and picketing.  Its not about trying to make you feel bad for going to a game.  We are trying to pressure the organziation to make change for the better.  I would love to see you put a post up answering these  questions?

1.  Are you satisfied with the last 19 years of football provided to us by Mike Brown?

2.  Do you want to see sustained success in future Bengals seasons?

3.  Do you trust Mike Brown to make the necessary changes for this franchise to become successful?

4.  Do you think the average fan, gathering in a group a la WDR, can pressure an organization to make changes?

ANSWER NO
A. are you still comfortable financially backing an organization with the success record of the Bengals organization? Please explain.
B. Can you give me an example of anything else you happily put your money into which performs at the success level of the Bengals organization? The Bengals essentially have correctly operated once in eighteen attempts. I would be shocked if you consistently and happily your money into a product that worked ten out of eighteen attempts. And then you would defend your purchase.

ANSWER YES
What do you suggest is a better way for the average fan to apply pressure on Mike to make the necessary changes?
*keep in mind WDR has already boycotted all Bengals merchandise, PBS tickets, and concessions. WDR has also effectively run an ad campaign in Cincy against the Bengals front office, which was significantly funded by WDR readers/fans. This ad campaign has been featured on nationally televised football games, the feature story on ESPN.com's NFL home page, and by dozens of nationally recognized newspapers, radio shows, and websites.


If ANYONE has a suggestion on how to more effectively show the Bengals organization the city of Cincinnati will no longer put up with anything less that sustained success PLEASE TELL US! We are not trying to be “right” and prove WDR haters wrong, we don’t give a shit about that. All we want is trust that the Bengals Front Office has the tools to put a playoff team on the field more often than not. All we want is sustained success. I would love for Mike Brown to be a hibernating football genius who comes out of his slumber this season and proves me totally and utterly wrong. It would make me extremely happy. Does anyone really think that is going to happen?...Anyone? How can’t you people learn from history?

All WDR fans want to go to games.  We are sacrificing these games becuase we hope that this will pressure Mike.  As the last 18 seasons have shown, blindly trusting Mike to provide us a winning team hasn't worked.  Even in Ocho's recently released book he says Mike needs to make changes.

Chad writes: "We don't have a general manager.  We have the fewest scouts in the league.  Yeah, we have some great players, like me, Carson Palmer, T.J., Levi Jones (now a free agent), Stacy Andrews (now with Philadelphia).  But we need more.  We need to keep more of the guys we have like Justin Smith (Signed by San Francisco in 2008) and guys like that.  Every time we start to make progress, we go backward (emphasis added).  We have Willie Anderson playing and we let him go over a little bit of money. ...

Mike Brown doesn't have any real help, he doesn't have enough help.  He doesn't trust anybody to tell him, 'Hey, we gotta change this.'  Marvin Lewis wants to help, but all Mike does is to tell him to coach. ... We need to get real help.  I've been here eight years.  I've seen it with my own eyes.  I've seen how it works.  After a while, you start to see where the problems are and you say to yourself, 'What can I really do?'  At a certain point, its out of your hands."
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Ho Chi Maier