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.
Amen, Brother Klinglered. I want to see this on-the-field-crying, off-the-field-badmouthing, in-the-bar-ass-beaten turd get curb-stomped by the Bengals' D. Carolina is not going to the playoffs this year, no matter how hard Penis King wishes they would, and if the Bengals are going to build on the momentum from beating the Ravens (and prove that they are capable of beating a team outside their division, something they struggled with last year), they need to put this one away early.
Posted by: Wyatt | September 21, 2010 at 07:00 PM
PS - Notre Dame (and Domers) suck.
Posted by: Wyatt | September 21, 2010 at 07:01 PM
This is the greatest website ever. I've been lurking here for a couple of years. While I usually agree with everything that is written here, this couldn't reflect my thoughts any more precisely. We have to go into Charlotte and beat the Panthers mercilessly and earn some much needed legitimacy (assuming we are legitimate). Claussen needs to be smacked to the turf and taught by our D that he's not ever going to be more than an NFL practice squad scrub.
Posted by: stophman66 | September 21, 2010 at 09:18 PM
his girlfriend or mom or whoever told him to put his hair like that needs to be shot in the face.
no wonder carolina has quarterback troubles if they take chode's like this seriously.
Posted by: ickey's headband | September 21, 2010 at 10:14 PM
If this turd doesn't get hit at least 10 times and wake up sore Monday, I will be pissed.
Ickey and Stophman, I couldn't agree more.
Posted by: blesterov | September 22, 2010 at 09:16 AM
I want the defense to punish Clausen like Andre Smith punishing the buffet at Golden Corral. I want Zimmer to make him cry like a Jr High girl who just got gounded from watching Jonas. I want Michael Johnson and Geno Atkins to go all Ivan Drago on him... "I must break you."
My fear, however, is that Bratkowski knows that Zimmer is getting ready for this very thing, and so he has chosen to spend extra time this week catching up on that backlog of DeGrassi episodes on his DVR. "I know the pre-snap penalties have been coming at hurricane-force levels, guys, but I have some Degra... some demands too catch up on this week."
Posted by: Major Payne | September 22, 2010 at 09:26 AM
The last thing we need is to give the Carolina offense any type of "confidence" in this game.
Do I like Clausen as a player? Yes... simply because I am a Notre Dame fan.
Do I like him as a person? No.
Do I want the Bengals to hold the Carolina offense to -17 yards the whole game? YES!
I strongly believe I will have a heart attack at the ripe age of 27 if the Bengals allow more than 150 yards of total offense by the Panthers. There is no way that should happen. The D is the least of my worries but I will save that for a different post.
On a different note...
Check out Braylon doing "The Dougie". Listen to the commentary. This is hysterical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXsNq9eo0cM
Posted by: John Smith | September 22, 2010 at 01:58 PM
Pretty unrelated but I heard of this site espn.com/fanschoice where fans can vote for players to make it into the Hall. Not sure if its legit but I've been voting nonstop for Ken Anderson for a while now (he's the only Bengal on there)
Posted by: Big Gay Mike's Big Gay Football Ride | September 22, 2010 at 03:18 PM
It doesn't do or mean anything. The list of nominees for the HOF can potentially include fan submissions, and any fan can mail the committee with anyone they wish to nominate, and the Hall will add it to the initial list. Which of course has zero bearing on the semifinalists or eventually on who gets in at all.
The whole "Fan's Choice" deal has nothing to do with the actual selection process, and votes there bear no influence on the selection committee. The site doesn't even purport to have any link between fan voting and HOF selection. You're voting on people in a glorified internet poll that ultimately makes no difference.
Posted by: Mockenrue | September 22, 2010 at 07:11 PM
Kinda what I thought. Anderson seems kinda to be a long shot in more and more every year anyway.
Posted by: Big Gay Mike's Big Gay Football Ride | September 22, 2010 at 07:22 PM
Everyone knows that god hates Notre Dame.
Posted by: Sly Vramavomovich | September 22, 2010 at 07:32 PM
I hope this happens.
But......
The Bengals have a history of losing to QBs making their first start (Flacco, Hill, Gradkowski...)
It'd be nice to see that trend reversed.
Posted by: BMN | September 23, 2010 at 11:08 AM
To further what Sly said:
If God's not a Penn State fan, then why is the sky blue and white?
(Suck on that, Sweatervesters.)
Posted by: Wyatt | September 23, 2010 at 03:16 PM
That Dougie video almost made me shit my pants I was laughing so hard. "Illegal use of the Dougie." Holy shit.
Posted by: Ryag | September 24, 2010 at 12:11 AM