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.
I nominate WDR for:
Best Motion Picture Soundtrack
( "Chariots of Fire" gets a nod for runner-up )
Best Motion Picture Involving A Plane, the FAA, Urinal Cakes, Dennys, Ginger Kids, and COFFEE PLEASE
( no 'also-rans' ever came close )
I nominate Mike Brown for:
Best Supporting Athlete
Posted by: Hofbraunow | January 29, 2010 at 12:54 AM
As I said,
I nominate Mike Brown for:
Best Supporting Athlete...kind of like Atlas, but instead of one...
Posted by: Hofbraunow | January 29, 2010 at 01:03 AM
Unrelated note: and heeeeere we go again. ESPN reporting that Maualuga is charged w/ DUI. Remember when we had that good season in 2005, and then lost our first playoff game, and then everyone started getting arrested, and then we had to deal with three seasons of complete heartbreak and suck?
Posted by: Ben | January 29, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Your link is fucked and I'm lazy, but I want to vote for you, please fix it so I can do that.
Posted by: CurseofBoJackson | January 29, 2010 at 11:27 AM
Click on the first link, the 2010 Best of Cincinnati. That link works.
Posted by: LeeRoy Jenkins | January 29, 2010 at 11:43 AM
Congrats to everyone at WDR. You deserve the nominations.
@Ben, I saw that on Lance's page and had an immediate flashback myself. A few weeks after a cup of coffee in the playoffs, a stand-out rookie linebacker gets arrested for DUI. The parallels are spooky.
Posted by: Major Payne | January 29, 2010 at 12:15 PM
I wasn't sure where else to post this comment, but did anyone else notice that Bill Simmons' latest column (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100129&sportCat=nfl) on the 15 most tortured teams DOES NOT include the Bengals but does include teams like the Eagles, a team with numerous playoff appearances (and wins) over the past decade as well as a Super Bowl appearance? Maybe Simmons should be a target for the next Project Mayhem effort....
Posted by: Mr. Random | January 30, 2010 at 02:37 PM
2009 Best Clutch Shank-er Who Is Franchised:
Shaynk Graham
Posted by: Hofbraunow | January 31, 2010 at 12:32 AM