ESPN.com's featured story by Elizabeth Merrill on the 2 decades long Bengals futility finally provides some direct, nationwide attention on Project Mayhem Task #9: Plane Banners at Bengals Training Camp.
Check out the whole story here.
For those of you new to WhoDey Revolution, the links to the various Project Mayhem tasks we have accomplished are at right. Or you can read every "Project Mayhem" tagged post here.
To give the new readers a quick overview, yes, we are all Bengals fans. But we are realistic, rational Bengals fans who understand that the Bengals management structure puts them at a competitive disadvantage to other successful teams in the league. They have the smallest scouting department in the NFL, with one full time scout. Check out their staff directory if you don't believe us. Also notice how many Browns you see. Maybe great for a local mom and pop diner, but it doesn't work for an NFL franchise.
So as fans, we decided to do what we could to try and get fans to understand that until changes are made, the Bengals will keep losing. We bought billboards around town asking for the team to hire a GM. We had fans sneak 1,000 urinal cakes into Paul Brown Stadium with the Bengals record under Mike Brown written on them, along with the words "Get Pissed!" And we flew banners over the Bengals training camp this offseason with the following messages:
1. "I can only see one scout from here!"
2. "$458,000,000 to build PBS = 0 Playoff Wins"
3. "101-187-1: HIRE A GM!"
4. "When is training camp for the front office?"
We are calling for a boycott on fans buying tickets and merchandise - which seems to be working. The Bengals pre-season games should be blacked out, and all home games except for Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh (where opposing teams fans are buying up the seats) have plenty of seats available.
And we will not stop broadcasting our message until the Bengals make these common sense changes.
"The Bengals are Brown's only business interest," from paragraph four of 'The family legacy section'.
Mmmm. That's false...
Posted by: Concerned fan | August 24, 2009 at 08:06 PM
Guys, I hate to be the dark cloud that the silver lining is wrapped around, but, to me at least, that article is overly sympathetic to Brown, and really kinda made the Revolution seem like we were a bunch of assholes, picking on a harmless old man. I think we all know that that's not the case, but the article spent a lot of time building up that Mike Brown does, in fact, know football, even if it's the way the game was played 40 years ago.
Posted by: Wyatt | August 24, 2009 at 08:29 PM
wyatt,
i don't think anyone, anywhere, who knows anything about football, would ever think that MFB has any clue about what he is doing. it is a scientific fact that a wet tube sock full of peanut butter could have done a better job running the Bengals for the last two decades... and you can't argue with science. a harmless old man goes to church and old country buffet and hands out hard candy to all the kids in the neighborhood. he doesn't spend all of his time ruining Sunday afternoon for millions of devoted fans.
the sooner we, as fans, realize that WE are the ones who have control of the money in MFB's bank account, the better the team will be. hopefully this exposes the Revolution to all the unenlightened masses. i can't imagine a fan with the long-term interest of our team at heart NOT supporting what WDR does.
Viva!
Posted by: Brian | August 24, 2009 at 09:44 PM
Just a note (there are so many things to address but why waste my time?) the problem with the Bengals not being televised is that we get 'shit' games involving 'shit' teams as a result -- andin some cases, we get just one game. Even to that point, Mikey Boy is fucking the city. hahahahaha!
Posted by: WCH | August 24, 2009 at 10:25 PM
WCH while you are correct that on some Sunday afternoons we will only get 1 game, you have miised on another point.
As someone who had season tickets for over 20 years and never missed a home game; shit games w/ a shit team was pretty much what I was watching.
I mean I literally left games to go home a rake leaves. How shitty is it to drop big bucks into Mikeys wallet only to watch him continue to crap all over the same fans who built him a stadium so he could in his words "compete w/ the rest of the league"?
Posted by: Comrade Robert | August 25, 2009 at 08:12 AM
Too bad they didn't link back to you. Kinda classless I think.
Posted by: Matt | August 25, 2009 at 08:19 AM
I find it amusing that there is no discussion of this on the Bengals message boards. Those jackass moderators must be deleting threads.
Posted by: hairymoe | August 25, 2009 at 11:09 AM
That's a great article. But given Brown's unwavering attitude don't you think it proves the futility of your efforts? I admire WDR a great deal, but it's obvious that no amount of mayhem is going to change Mike Brown one bit.
Sigh...
Posted by: Paul | August 25, 2009 at 02:01 PM
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