20 - Years since the Bengals have won a playoff game
0 - Total number of playoff wins in Mike Brown's tenure as owner
.359 - Bengals regular season winning percentage since Mike Brown took over as owner (115-206-1 in 20 seasons)
29-34-1 - 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.
The funny thing is that this is Fat Ben when he's stone sober.
Posted by: Sly Vramavomovich | February 01, 2009 at 04:56 PM
You're interesting when you analyze the failures of Bengals management. You're pitiful when you whine about a QB with two rings. Two more than the Bengals franchise has, isn't it?
Posted by: KH | February 02, 2009 at 02:18 AM
you should also make a point to Google image search "Jeff Reed" or "Santonio Holmes".
NSFW. Classy. Wonder how long it'll take for these to hit mainstream media now that he got the mvp.
Posted by: yourmom | February 02, 2009 at 04:13 PM
I agree with you, KH. All I have to add to what you wrote is that in the above picture, Rothlisberger kinda looks like my balls.
Posted by: Rich | February 02, 2009 at 04:41 PM
You guys got it only half-wrong...
Of course it's interesting when this blog analyzes the failures of Bengals management, however
it's definitely even more interesting (not to mention creative) when the Steelers get dogged...
I used like the Steelers, back when Bradshaw QB'd for them, until I grew up and realized what a bunch of roid-crazed meth-heads they are...
Himes Ward is like someone stole the statue from a Frisch's Big Boy, and put a Steelers uniform on him...I bet he stands just like that, quite often (it's where they got the idea for the Heisman Trophy, from the Frisch's Big Boy statue's pose)
Posted by: Hofbraunow | February 03, 2009 at 12:04 AM