La Revolucion Question of the Week

Would you rather...

... Have the Bengals win the Super Bowl next year under the current regime and way of doing business?  (Option A)

OR

... Have the Bengals loss each of the next three years (5-11, 3-13, 4-12), and then Mike Brown finally changes the way the organization runs (GM, scouting, etc.)?  (Option B)

Option A - Gives Bengals fans what they want.  Gives the city a major boost.  But it also means that Mike Brown gets to hang his hat on his way of doing things, AND his family gets to hang their hat on his way of doing things.  Which could potentially lead to future and continued frustration that might never change because the Browns get to say: "Hey, we won a Super Bowl in 2009 (2010, whatever) this way, it works!  It will never change!", for decades!

Option B - Does not guarantee a Super Bowl, but the Bengals would finally be run like a big boy franchise.  We would be taking steps in the right direction.  But we could be the cateogory of the San Diego Chargers, Seattle Seahawks, or Atlanta Falcons (close, but not quite). 

Comments

[1-8 is no excuse]

The obvious choice is B, for the sake of the Revolution. But an argument could be made for A. I mean a world championship can turn a TEAM around, i.e. the Giants. And when I say TEAM I mean the TEAM, not the front office. But we all know the long term is better than the short term, so it has to be B.

[Leeroy Jenkins]

I am a schmuck and want number 1. I will allow 0-16 seasons for the rest of my life just to win ONE Super Bowl.

[Flash]

Give me the Super Bowl win. Ten years ago the Patriots were a laughing stock (people forget the Bengals beat the Pats in the first game of the first Patriots' Super Bowl year; Sept. 9, 2001 23-17 at PBS)

The Pats caughts some breaks; Bledsoe injury, Tuck Rule; easy division...suddenly they're a dynasty.

News flash; the Brown family ain't chaning their ways.

[Glove]

Gotta go with the Super Bowl. After that, it doesn't matter anymore.

[Keith]

Super Bowl. You can always look back and enjoy that. If you have a guaranteed Super Bowl win, you take it, no matter the cost/losing seasons. I still enjoy looking back at the WS in '90, despite the overall crappiness that has followed. I'll suffer MB for bragging rights for a year.

[cali bungles fan9]

Being a Bengals fan in california has been rough. All through school I was unmercifully picked on for wearing my Bengals gear by 49ers fans(5 rings) and Jokeland Raiders(3 rings). I am torn between option A and B so I have developed my own option... Release Charles Manson and a group of his followers from San Quentin for one hour at Mike Browns front doorstep(fully armed of course) and after that hour is up burn the house to the ground and piss on the ashes.

[BMN]

Think: Option B makes no guarantees, but Option A almost *ensures* that the Steelers will have more Super Bowls than the Bengals into perpetuity.

Could you really live with THAT on your conscience?

[Shame Guevera]

Anybody else remember the last game Dave Shula coached? Bengals take an early 21 point lead against the 49er's only to get shut out in the second half and lose 28-21. Bruce Coslet takes over the 1-6 team and wins 7 of the remaining 9 games.

That game was an important life lesson for me...sometimes you have to lose (the game) in order to win (a better coach). You're always better off picking the long-term gain over the short-term benefit and the wisdom comes in knowing the difference.

But here's the catch. That game was 1996. As in, after this pivotal turning point in the battle against futility, the Bengals posted losing records the next 6 years. The Bengals turned the corner, except they didn't.

The fine print of Option B is that no matter how many football professionals Mike Brown hires, he will still own the team. There is absolutely no guarantee that the Bengals would ever be run like a "big boy franchise" as long as Mike Brown is involved.

On the other hand, Option A would, in a very small way, validate my devotion to this worthless team for the past 17 years. And it would also give me a chance to quit the Bengals with some dignity. When they're on top.

[houshyomama]

u gotta go SB on this one. u made option A too good.

[Big]

snif....

snif....

sniff....

.... i smell Super Bowl !!!!!

give me the bling, ill take the ring. there is no way MB will ever change the Bengals, so we need to win it when we can get it

[Joe]

Option A. No question I want the Super Bowl win. I mean c'mon people, don't you love your team more than you hate Mike Brown? The whole reason we hate Mike Brown is because he runs a lousy organization. All I want is to watch my Bengals win. I always want the Bengals to win no matter who the coach is, who the players are, anything...

As incompetent as Mike Brown is, we can't let this be more about him than it already is. It's all about making the Bengals win, first, and so second comes getting Mike Brown out of the way because he has failed so miserably. But winning the superbowl, to me, is more important than continuing to embarass Mike Brown.