Today in Indianapolis, WhoDeyRevolution is launching Project Mayhem Task #5 and has recruited over 150 comrades to hold up these signs, demonstrating the importance of how hiring a competent general manager is instrumental in a team's success.
Mike Brown and Colts owner Jim Irsay have a lot in common. Both won the gene lottery and had successful fathers who owned an NFL Franchise, taking control of each team upon their deaths. The difference? Jim Irsay realized that he shouldn't be making football decisions so he hired Bill Polian as General Manager to control all player personnel and day-to-day operations for the team. Mike Brown remains in charge of thes issues for the Bengals. The results speak for themselves: The Colts are one of the winningest teams over the stretch, with an NFL record 5 straight 12+ win seasons and a Super Bowl. The Bengals, on the other hand, are a combined 97-186-1 over the last 18 years, the worst record of any team in all 4 professional sports.
For today's task, over 150 Bengals fans will be bringing in signs that are similar to the billboards that we have put up around Cincinnati calling for the Bengals to hire a GM, but instead for Colts fans to hold thanking Jim Irsay for hiring a GM. The Bengals fan sitting next to this sign will hold an orange and black sign that askes Mike Brown to take notes.
The purpose of Task #5 is similar to the billboard campaign, to bring national and local attention to the most fundamental reason why the Bengals are perpetual losers: non-football minds making football decisions. If the Bengals ever want to consistently compete in the NFL, Mike Brown needs to hire a competent GM and let him have control of player personnel decisions.
So today during the game, please watch for these signs around the stadium. And who knows, maybe some of the signs will be held for Mike Brown to see.
Sweet personal foul, Chris Henry. And now you've officially done more harm than good.
Posted by: Ben | December 07, 2008 at 02:16 PM
Have the signs made it on the TV broadcast? I've only been watching off and on.
Posted by: Kevin | December 07, 2008 at 03:06 PM
Appreciate the effort, but were mikey to actually admit defeat and hire a GM, he would simply be a puppet and we wouldn't be much more successful than we are today. I'd like to know who you think would actually come work for the puppet master....instead, we should focus our efforts and getting mikey to sell the franchise or move it elsewhere.
Posted by: John from Cincinnati | December 07, 2008 at 04:47 PM
Ooops - I meant "instead, we should focus our efforts ON getting mikey to sell the franchise or move it elsewhere."
Posted by: John from Cincinnati | December 07, 2008 at 04:49 PM
You just got a mention on NBC, but the video was of y'all leaving, not able to see the signs. They just cracked a joke that you had the signs backwards. Ha ha. I really hate to be the butt of these douchbags' jokes.
Posted by: VegasKev | December 07, 2008 at 07:38 PM
I was watching Football Night in America just now. As Keith Olbermann finished up the litany of ineptitude against the Colts, he pointed out that the Bengals fans "couldn't even get their protest signs pointed in the right direction". All we could see were the plain backs of a blue and an orange sign in the accompanying shot. I'm sure they were being deliberately pointed at the box seats at the time, but Keith is never one to pass up a cheap joke.
Posted by: psychostats | December 07, 2008 at 07:51 PM
John From Cincinnati,
Please finish what you started with Deadwood.
Posted by: Sly Vramavomovich | December 07, 2008 at 09:50 PM
I think P.M. #5 would have been more sucessful, if it were not 'revealed' until after the game was over...I'm pretty sure the WDR is now under surveillance, ever since the Billboards went up, and got put on national TV...
Posted by: HofbrauNow | December 08, 2008 at 08:37 PM