IN THIS TIME of perpetual Cincinnati Bengals incompetence and futility, with zero playoff wins in the eighteen seasons since the WhoDeyRevolution Godfather, Paul Brown, passed away in 1991 and handed the team to his fortunate son, the Despot, Mike Brown;
Introduction
WE, the members of the Who Dey Revolution, in our fervent dedication to the Cincinnati Bengals and fanatical desire to transform our hometown team into perpetual Super Bowl contenders, call for a popular revolution of fans to demand comprehensive reform to the managerial decisions and approach of Cincinnati Bengals ownership, management, staff and players, and hereby call for the adoption of the following Who Dey Revolution Manifesto:
Manifesto Demands
THAT the Mike Brown, Katie Blackburn, Marvin Lewis, along with every other member of the Bengals management, staff and personnel, state publicly to all Bengals fans, “I will do everything in my power to help the Cincinnati Bengals win a Super Bowl;”
THAT Mike Brown will hire a general manager, drastically expand the scouting department and relinquish all control of player personnel;
THAT all training, rehabilitation and medical facilities are considered best-in-class compared to other NFL teams;
THAT the management fill the team only with players who fit the system, both mentally and physically, and are not reluctant to makes changes to player personnel when needed, regardless of cost or loyalty concerns;
THAT offensive and defensive line depth is considered the top priority for all player personnel decisions;
THAT all decisions made by ownership, management, staff and players, both on and off the field, are judged only by this criterion: “Does this help the Cincinnati Bengals win a Super Bowl?”
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18 - Years since the Bengals have won a playoff game
0 - Total number of playoff wins in Mike Brown's tenure as owner
.349 - Bengals regular season winning percentage since Mike Brown took over as owner (101-187-1 in 18 seasons)
19-34-1 - Record since 2005 playoff game vs Steelers
6 - Seasons the Bengals have lost their first six games since 1991. No other team has more than two.
0 - Teams North of Cincinnati without an indoor practice facility
10 - Players arrested in a 14 month span from 2005-2006
32 - Mike Brown's ranking, out of 32, of the "Best Owners in the NFL" by Michael Silver of Sports Illustrated in 2007
458,000,000 - Amount, in dollars, that Hamilton County Taxpayers paid to build PBS
2032 - Year that Hamilton County will have finally paid off its debt on the stadium deal
3 - Total number of non-clerical employees employed in the Bengals scouting department, lowest in the league
747,000,000 - Amount, in dollars, paid in free agency by the Bengals from 1994 - 2005, second worst of all 28 teams in existence for the duration, behind only Arizona
118 – Ranking, out of 118 professional teams, of the “Worst Franchises” in professional sports, as ranked by ESPN the Magazine in 2003.
97 – Ranking, out of 98 general managers in all four major sports with three or more years of experience, of Mike Brown’s performance as a GM, as ranked by Forbes in 2007.
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Posted by: buy viagra | January 21, 2010 at 04:25 PM
we need to talk to mike holgrom about football operations and not let the Cleveland Browns do it. We are in dire need of a general manager and that is the whole truth. Mike Brown doesn't seem to get our messages and I can understand why he sucks. He is a terrable owner and it seems as though he should get that in his empty nogon. Sincerely yours Jane Davison Geneva, N.Y.
Posted by: jane davison | December 21, 2009 at 10:33 PM
just a note to say that the Bengals are my favoriate football team. I was happy that they beat Pittsburgh today. good luck with the rest of the season Jane Davison
Posted by: jane davison | November 15, 2009 at 11:13 PM
dear sir,
I feel that Kevin Colbert of the Pittsburgh Steelers would be a wonderful general manager for Cincinnati. Mike Brown and the rest of the family need to retire and move to Miami Jane Davison Geneva, N.Y.
Posted by: Jane Davison | November 15, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Keep doing what you are doing. WHO DEY!
Posted by: Chip Schoumacher | October 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Down with Brown!!
WHO DEY!
Viva la Revolution
Posted by: Donnie Richardson | October 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM
If the Cardiac Cats can keep it real for 11 more games, and I don't have a cardiac arrest. This could be one of the funnest Bengal season I have experienced in a long, long time. I am enjoying and savoring every last second of it!! Hated to see St. Louis go, but you are paid to do a job, and you were not doing it. Good Luck to you Brad in whatever you do in the future. Welcome Clark Harris, a Big East boy, to the Who Deys!!! Good Luck this week against your former team. GO CATS.....
Posted by: Bets Preston | October 13, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Hey mikey, I'm not the man my father is (or in your case was) either. But I know it, I'm getting closer everyday, and I'm doing my best to honor my father. I wish you could say the same. And if you are trying mikey, then the problem is more monumental than I thought.
Paul Brown is the most under-rated football mind in pro football history (at least he is appropriately, or at least adequately, recognized in the annals of both high school and college football history). PB deserves better, Bengal fans deserve better, football fans deserve better.
Posted by: Jeff Swayne | October 05, 2009 at 12:28 AM
I'm so sick of the losing. How can people still buy tickets to watch that crap?
Posted by: Charles Hertz | September 20, 2009 at 07:54 AM
The bengals have talent but the window is closing fast. Changes need to be made fast. Bratkowski should not be calling plays for Pee Wee football and Brown is a Douche. Been on this website a lot I have finally had enough.
Posted by: Steve Wallace | September 19, 2009 at 10:01 AM
I proudly support the Who Dey revolution!!!!!
Posted by: JoRetta | September 16, 2009 at 12:15 PM
If the masses do end up boycotting Bengals games, can Mike Brown still move the team to another city? If so, what are the chances the NFL will grant Cincinnati another franchise?? I'm curious to see if this is a possibility, and how we could convince Roger Godell to grant us another team.
I love the Bengals and have been a life long fine, but when something's not working, at some point you have to accept reality and cut the cord. Maybe a new franchise in Cincinnati with new ownership would bring the change we so desperately seek.
Posted by: Aziz | September 15, 2009 at 04:08 PM
I don't know who would be more ashamed of their son, Paul Brown who's son has taken the once proud NFL franchise he'd built and utterly ruined it for his own financial gain or my dad for supporting PBs son by buying tickets, jerseys, hats etc. From this day on I'm going to honor MY father and join the revolution.
Posted by: Billy Bengal | September 01, 2009 at 06:40 PM
Who Dey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Goetzie | September 01, 2009 at 11:02 AM
I hope the Brown family doen't think this revolution is a passing fad. I always have been and always will be a Bengals fan, but this shit has got to stop. Show some balls by admitting you're clueless and let someone more qualified take control of the operation of this team. I can't take it any more.
Posted by: Michael Jones | August 25, 2009 at 08:20 PM
Louie Fetch
Posted by: Louie Fetch | August 24, 2009 at 09:43 PM
Please hire a GM, and not a Brown controlled Puppet!
Posted by: Chris B | August 24, 2009 at 09:33 PM
Proud Bengals fan, living in San Diego, watching another franchise try really hard to "Win A Superbowl" and being sick of Bungle failure. 12/20 I'm going to a Bengal game (and rewarding the Chargers organization financially) and I hope we're 13-0 but I'll have revolution signs ready just in case (watch for me in a shopping bag mask with a "For Paul's Sake! Hire a GM!" sign)
Posted by: Chris Y. | August 24, 2009 at 05:22 PM
I've got to rep the Bengals in a two-team town. It's tough. I'm tired of making excuses to Pats and Giants fans about our terrible management. Let's see something happen. Keep the planes going. I hope HBO will show em
Posted by: Peter Haffner | August 24, 2009 at 01:35 AM
I think Mr. Brown should approve a free six month prescription for Zoloft for every Season ticket holder.
Posted by: Amy Deans | August 22, 2009 at 03:01 PM
Mike Brown and Katie are a joke. They'll definitely be one of the top contenders of "worst thing to ever happen to Cincinnati"
Posted by: orangeandblack | August 22, 2009 at 07:50 AM
I am proud to call myself a member of the revolution!
Posted by: Ben Erickson | August 22, 2009 at 02:26 AM
A storm interrupted my satellite reception, does Hbo re-broadcast the hard knocks episodes?
Posted by: Top Six | August 21, 2009 at 10:28 PM
If Mike Brown were to contract cancer, would he want to beat cancer or just "be competitive"? I think I would root for cancer.
Posted by: Kevin M | August 21, 2009 at 03:29 PM
Been reading for months and finally joining. No longer will I be a quiet bystander!
Posted by: Brett Compton | August 21, 2009 at 03:16 PM
Child Please Mike Brown! Viva la Revolution!
PS Hey can that Harrington kid play tight end? He can run really well!
Posted by: Donkey | August 21, 2009 at 02:25 PM
I have joined the REVOLUTION!!!!
Posted by: Kaleb | August 21, 2009 at 02:06 PM
Down with Brown! Viva la revolucion!
Posted by: Mark Burger | August 19, 2009 at 11:14 PM
This city and fan base deserves better than this...MIKE BROWN MUST STEP DOWN!!!
Posted by: T-Bone | August 17, 2009 at 12:35 PM
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
Viva la Revolution!
Posted by: Joe Malinsky | August 13, 2009 at 01:32 PM
WHO DEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
GET MIKE BROWN OUT OF THERE NOW!
Posted by: Matthew Hoke | July 15, 2009 at 05:00 PM
This site is the greatest ever.
Posted by: Michael | July 09, 2009 at 02:01 AM
Sort it out! In 1988 I was a skinny british kid watching american football in the UK on Channel 4. This was back in the day when all we had was four channels. Channel 4 was the freaky esoteric channel that showed all the foreign stuff. I was hooked on your shitty team from then. You remember Mike, we nearly won something called the super bowl? I have watched in horror from the other side of the atlantic for the last 20 years. I am no longer a boy but a man who supports a team in a sport no one likes. You don't even know people like me exist. Splash the cash or bugger off!
Posted by: DorsetBengal07 | July 08, 2009 at 02:42 PM
Hear the Bengals growlin'!!!
Posted by: Charlie | June 14, 2009 at 08:49 PM
I have been reading this site every day for a while now so its only right I post something... WHO DEY!!!
Posted by: Steve S | June 04, 2009 at 01:28 PM
Bengals fan from Canada here. Not hiring a GM is beyond pathetic. No franchise in the Canadian Football League would be without one, even though the budget for an entire team is less than what Carson Palmer earns in a year. To think that the Bengals organization is less professional than our home grown minor league outfits... well, that's just stupefying.
Posted by: Mr. X | June 04, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Who Dey need?
A GM!!!!!!!
Posted by: Noah Gausman | June 03, 2009 at 06:44 PM
you need to go to bengals.com and check out the quote by Andre Smith's former agent under the title "Thursday Quick Hits" basically saying Andre doesnt have the character to remain with their company
Posted by: Kevin | May 21, 2009 at 07:48 PM
We are finally free of the Houshmandzadeh curse! (For those of you who don't know, look at the win/loss record when he was the leading receiver from 06 to 08) Now all we need is a GM.
Posted by: Rob | May 17, 2009 at 08:53 PM
Viva
Posted by: Edge | May 14, 2009 at 08:28 PM
There is a standing bounty in Charlotte for Ole Mikey.
I'm sick of people seeing who i'm a fan of and laughing. I dream of the day when i can where my Bengals hat with pride and have people react like they do to Yankees fans. They hate you for liking a good team that's easy to root for.
Posted by: The Sontag | May 14, 2009 at 03:52 PM
Count me in. Who Dey!
Posted by: Brock Mangus | May 14, 2009 at 01:27 PM
I'm a utilitarian and the joy a well-run NFL franchise provides millions of fans is more important than the millions of dollars a single miserly sperm-Olympics-winning ne'er-do-well earns running that franchise into the ground.
(We'd do well to apply that principle to a lot of things, actually.)
Viva la Revolucion
Posted by: P. Simon | May 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Viva La Revolution!
Posted by: Thom Tadsen | May 14, 2009 at 08:41 AM
4th worst owner for the exact reasons this website exists from Sports Illustrated http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/nfl/05/08/nfl.owners/index.html
Posted by: Drew Hunter | May 12, 2009 at 08:19 PM
WHO DEY.... Well anybody the past 18 years.
Posted by: Airborne Grunt | May 08, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Let do it! Alll riiiight!
Posted by: Adam | April 27, 2009 at 03:06 PM
How about the draft? It is nice to know that we will possibly have more character issue problems in 2010. Mike Brown is a cancer...
Posted by: Steve Zacharias | April 26, 2009 at 10:44 AM
I cant beleive the Bengals drafted Andre"MAN BOOBS" Smith ...AKA MOOBIES with EUGENE MONROE still sitting there.The Bengals History in drafing overweight,weak,slow o lineman is killing them.Anyone Remember Freddie Childress?
Posted by: Cylon Steve | April 26, 2009 at 07:31 AM
Fight the power! Just found your site after 32 years of misery. Dropped my season tickets after years of paying for Mike Brown's lies.
Posted by: chad r | April 26, 2009 at 04:12 AM