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.
Was this a surprise? Up 31-14 at halftime I needed only to remind myself the Bengals have NEVER beaten the Bills under Mike Brown, and that a total implosion would be utterly Bengal-like. I was confident in their ability to find a way to blow the game. I don't understand why anyone wouldn't be by now.
Posted by: Mockenrue | November 21, 2010 at 05:47 PM
As I was telling somebody earlier, the worst the Bengals can be is a boring 7-9 or 6-10. I WANT them to be an embarrassment now that the playoffs are a dream. To lose by 18 points, after winning by 21? At home? Against a 1-8 team? A journeyman quarterback?
Really, the ineptitude is mind-boggling. And hilarious...
Posted by: Tibor75 | November 21, 2010 at 05:54 PM
Just a quick question... ...why not write to that 'turd' Goodell and ask him to remove the Bengals from the league because of inherent issues with the owner? What could it hurt?
Ya know why that won't work? I said it before, I will say it again, MBB WILL tell Goodell that the moment he tries any of that shit, MBB will go to Congress demanding investigations on the monopoly/anti-trust legislation that has given the NFL what it has today.
See ya guys FUCKED IT UP! You could've gotten rid of MBB over a decade ago if you weren't such spoiled children. Now you have someone actually saying that a practice facility is part of what would have made this team better (aside from my 'snide' remarks to that issue). Ye reap what ye sow. bwahahaha
Posted by: wch | November 21, 2010 at 05:57 PM
Well cryin about it is not gonna get any thing done! its time to take action. Im off to get a VOO-DOO Doll to use on Mike Browns ASS!
Posted by: Jeff Norman | November 21, 2010 at 06:07 PM
The NFL should have set/static salary spots/levels for each franchise.
These levels would be based on the franchise's previous year's revenue.
Example: let's say you're allowed 3 signs/drafts for the upcoming season.
You have three levels you can assign for your drafts, one/limited sign per level.
The *set/static* amount of each level will be based on your team's previous year's revenue.
This (or similar) would keep owners from spending too cheap on any player, and also from spending too much on any player.
This, coupled with the current NFL draft design, would eliminate the Mike Brown ownership model, and make the league much more interesting.
Posted by: Hofbraunow | November 21, 2010 at 06:09 PM
@Hofbraunow: It's not at all *about* salary levels.
It's about having scouts and a general manager and decent coaches picked by people who know something about football.
Posted by: DieDieDieMikeBrown | November 21, 2010 at 06:45 PM
I'm sure the above model would need more educated tweaking, but it seems to me that the two main points for argument, in any would-be function, are:
* an NFL team's record/ranking for the previous season
* an NFL team's revenue for the previous year/season
Based on these two points, the NFL could make a reformed model,
which would prevent the kind of ownership/franchise abuse we've witnessed, as with the Bengals.
I believe the NFL as a league is just as vested in this as Bengals fans (and players) are...
No promising NFL player should have to rot out their vital years on a losing team (ex. Barry Sanders)
Posted by: Hofbraunow | November 21, 2010 at 06:52 PM
Posted by: DieDieDieMikeBrown
'It's not at all *about* salary levels.
It's about having scouts and a general manager and decent coaches picked by people who know something about football."
That's true, but Mike Brown has the final say, and any scouts/staff (or warm bodies for that matter) have to work within Brown's constraints.
I believe such constraints would be discouraged or eliminated with key NFL reforms.
Posted by: Hofbraunow | November 21, 2010 at 07:35 PM
We keep reiterating the same point. All of us who use this site knows mike brown sucks. Time for a project.
Posted by: Neutered Bengal | November 21, 2010 at 08:16 PM
My son gave me this idea for a new project.
I don't believe that the Bengal's problems are the players. This year, I think we've lost more games because of coaching...both during the game and what is emphasized during practice.
So for our high draft picks this year we should be looking for new coaches. And if there's a good one available, a better *owner*.
Can you do that?
Just a thought,
Randy
Posted by: Randy | November 21, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Barry Sanders?
Barry Sanders?
Barry Sanders won a playoff game muvva fuvva!
The mike Brown - Cinci-Tucky striped PUSSIE'S have not.
I'll take Mr Ford's and Fontze's playoff record any day.
Jesus Fucking Christ. Really? This non-performance today (along with the last two Tampa games, and Oakland last year) is MFB epitomized (unless it's draft day) (Peter, kijana, Akili, Dan, David, Andre,........ Carson)
This cockstain spent 12 years fucking up and then finding a franchise quarterback. Remember????
Then he got one. And thoroughly wares his NFL existence. Carson is not a "has been" he is a "could have been" or "never really was"
FUCK
FUCK
FUCK
The only and I mean ONLY thing we have going for us now under MFB rule is that season ticket/luxury box sales are officially dead next year.
MFB knows he need he paper.
SO...........
He may be tempted to hire a big name and generate some hope. You know like 2003.
Oh wait it's MFB.
Breakdown let's do it Bengal style.
What's Bengal style?
-MFB- that Zimmerman can put a top 5 defense out there with my rotten produce. Katie lets............
Welcome head coach Zimmerman.
And another generation of bengals fans dies before Mike Fucking Brown.
It's not insensitive to hope.
Please Mike Brown
Please
DIE
Posted by: JM | November 21, 2010 at 11:10 PM
The problem here is that the product is extravagant, wherein lies the utility it offers certain stadium-goers.
It's similar to designer bottled water.
Why the *hell* would anyone pay $50 for bottled water?
Answer: because they can, *and* because it cost $50, and they want people to know it cost $50...
I know it's stupid, but some people are like that...
And, Mike Brown knows it
Posted by: Mikehail Gorbrownchev | November 22, 2010 at 10:21 PM
if you live, shop or work in the Dimond, i imagine you have seen their progress. it is hard to miss. i love it. what is perhaps more impressive is the work it has taken them to get funding, and their persistence. they have started the mural without enough funds to finish it, working on faith that they can make this happen.
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It's entirely possible that one or more of these ideas could have been a big success had we given it the college try. Instead, these ideas died on the vine -- usually in one minute of a 1:1, a couple minutes before a different meeting got a quorum, or in a hallway conversation on the way to lunch. Generating good ideas is only as important as getting buy in for them. If you come up with ideas no one wants to act on, you're about as useful as someone who doesn't come up with any ideas (but you'll be a lot more frustrated and bitter).
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