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 difference between a sellout or not is people like many of us who gave up their season tickets and will not go back.
If you go back then you are a sellout and MFB will benefit from the sellout.
IN SPITE OF MFB do not go back and spend your dolla's elsewhere.
GO ZIMMER!
Posted by: kotw65 | October 13, 2009 at 03:03 PM
Love the team, hate the Owner/"GM". The stadium has to remain unfilled. You can watch the game at a sports bar.
Posted by: MikeBrownMustGo | October 13, 2009 at 03:20 PM
@MikeBrownMustGo - If the game doesn't sell out then I can't watch the game at a sports bar anywhere near my house in Dayton. I would have to go to where they are receiving Columbus channels.
Posted by: Jeff | October 13, 2009 at 03:29 PM
You know they are in trouble when they have Cedric Benson pop up at the bottom of bengals.com asking fans to buy tickets for the game..... sad.....
Posted by: The Sontag | October 13, 2009 at 03:39 PM
Well in their infinite wisdom the Columbus CBS station is showing Browns Stillers instead of the first place Bengals this Sunday. We get to look at a 56-0 drubbing while the first place team plays, nonsense.
Posted by: JoseOle | October 13, 2009 at 03:51 PM
Disregard this nonsense. Buy tickets so that I can watch the game at home!!!!!!!!!! WHO DEY!!!!!!!
Posted by: Cya | October 13, 2009 at 07:32 PM
Or, if you want to join in the type of fun shown here, you could buy tickets to the game:
http://www.whodeyrevolution.com/whodeyrevolution/2009/09/cool-video-from-pbs.html
Posted by: top six | October 13, 2009 at 07:39 PM
I like Brad Johanson better than whoever they dig up to do play by play on TV anyway. WLW comes in great in my living room, combined with my laptop and nfl.com, I'll do just fine.
Posted by: Scott Ricketts | October 13, 2009 at 07:45 PM
That's right keep giving money to Mike Brown. Baa baa baa baa.
Posted by: MikeBrownMustGo | October 13, 2009 at 07:53 PM
yes, that way people cant enjoy the game from their own homes, as i prefer to do. what happens when they make the playoffs? gonna be rooting for a blackout playoff game if we hosted?
Posted by: dusty | October 13, 2009 at 08:02 PM
*If* the Bengals make the playoffs I still think boycotting is the appropriate action. Mike Brown earned with 20 years of good hard old fashioned incompetence. If the Bengals win a Lombardi trophy then maybe I'll spend my money. Until then no way. Not financing incompetence. Sorry.
Posted by: MikeBrownMustGo | October 13, 2009 at 08:43 PM
You would still boycott the bengals even if we make the playoffs? Thats rediculous. I understand your hatred towards Mike Brown, we all do. But to deny "your" team another fan in the seats is uncalled for. Don't worry. If the bengals make the playoffs, I'll be buying a ticket and driving 7 hours to go to it.
Posted by: Who dey fan from Illinois | October 13, 2009 at 09:41 PM
The perfect Mike Brown scenario for 2009 is go 10-6, get a wild card, lose in the first round again. Then he can say the team is "competitive" and there are no problems. No good free agents will need to be signed, no scouts hired, no GM needed, etc, etc. The bar has been set so low that you can almost reach it by accident. That's how he likes it. He's already won, basically, because not enough fans will stay away if the team occasionally jumps over the accidental height. This year's 4-1 start couldn't have been scripted any better to turn off the pressure. There is basically no way this revolution can succeed, in other words. I am not sure why people come here vowing to drive hours and hours to see a game and put more money in Mike Brown's pocket. Does anyone actually understand what the goals of the site are? How exactly does putting another fan in a seat get to those goals?
Posted by: MikeBrownMustGo | October 13, 2009 at 10:39 PM
We (I) come to this site because it's enjoyable to see you guys lament and they actually do a decent job writing some, not all, but some of the articles.
Posted by: Cya | October 13, 2009 at 11:31 PM
It's easy to say "don't support MB by getting tickets" When most of the contributors, including the founder live outside the area and can catch the game on the NFL package or at a sports bar.
Posted by: DCurtis | October 14, 2009 at 08:42 AM
Sweet pic, I want that as a poster for the man cave. The position the team finds itself in at this juncture makes sticking to one's figurative guns a difficult choice, here is my suggestion.
Do some research starting tomorrow afternoon (if we don't sell out) about where you can make a day trip to watch the game, you'll likely spend less money (unless you drive a HUmmer or something) and you'll get your fix. This will be my method, for I too am a crackhead for this god damned team, but won't give the man the money I really don't have anyway just because the coaches have been able to go far above and beyond the call of duty to make this season work.
Posted by: CurseofBoJackson | October 14, 2009 at 11:14 AM
what the f*&^ is wrong with you pricks, thanks to you if the game doesnt sell out im not gonna be able to sit at home and watch a product that i am proud of take the field, just because you fags think that doing whatever you think will help your bitch cause will cause mb to hire a gm is absolute bullshit. regardless of if you buy tickets or not nothing is going to happen, there were plenty of blackouts in the 03 years and before but hey look at us now. MIKE BROWN IS STILL THE OWNER AND HE IS NOT GONNA GIVE INTO YOUR WHINEY BULLSHIT, he didnt give in during the blackouts before and he sure as hell is going to now. so on behalf of the cincinnati fans that wont be able to watch the game, thanks a lot assholes
Posted by: brandon c | October 14, 2009 at 08:53 PM
I like the image in the top of the blog. The image of white tiger is scary and it looks real.
Posted by: Camera Accessories | October 15, 2009 at 05:15 AM
What started out as a great idea, has become as radical as PETA. Sad. Only thing you are teaching Mike is that spending money and providing a good product doesn't put people in the seats. He might as well close the pocket book back up.
Posted by: Jay | October 15, 2009 at 11:18 AM
This picture reminds me of an album cover...
...you know, the one with AquaBengal underwater in a swimming pool, being baited by a Lombardi trophy on a fish-hook...
...for the album "Nevermine", by that grunge supergroup, known as BrownVana
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