As WDR projected last month, the sellout streak will end with the Bengals-Bills game on November 21st. This will mark the first home game not on local television since November 9th, 2003 vs. Houston.
In a story posted on Bengals.com, Geoff Hobson goes on to say that the only game the team is somewhat confident about selling out is December 5th vs. New Orleans. Even Cleveland on December 19th is in serious jepoardy. Not sure the last time a Bengals-Browns game did not sellout, but it has been a long time.
So, how will Mike Brown and company respond? What if the final four home games in 2010 fail to sellout...less than one year after an AFC North division championship?
Sadly, without a doubt, it will be more of the same absurdity that made Mike Brown the fastest owner ever to 200 losses, and the slowest ever to 100 wins.
Now this is something Bengals-related I can actually celebrate!
Is it official? No last minute extensions to sell out or anything, right?
Posted by: O'JTSullivan | November 12, 2010 at 12:02 AM
...Probably by selling out the remaining tickets prior to the game (using discounts to charities (so MBB can write it off of course) but ensuring that it just didn't happen prior to the TV blackout rules. He will still claim it as a sell-out. He probably also will bust 'Buffalo Balls' by blaiming them for being so horrible that 'they couldn't hold up their end of the bargain!'
What I am really waiting for, is if there was anything in the contract with the county (Gee, I am glad I am only indirectly affected now as I've moved northward) that gave him (MBB) penalty monies from said county because there wasn't a sellout by a certain time. You'd have thought that as outstanding of a 'sweetheart deal' that 'Bedingcrud' gave his now BOSS (A double SOB btw), he would have engineered in even MORE that the Bengals would get from the county in the event of a non-sellout -- even though the cause of such things has nothing to do with the county but rather the teams' performance!
Oh well, let us wait. Maybe there 'might' be a God if we find out that none of this was figured into the lease. Lord knows we, the county, got screwed over the taxes etc. Why not this?
Posted by: wch | November 12, 2010 at 01:24 AM
I am sending this in clear text...we need to, shall we say, get a WDR logo on the Jumbotron at PBS..that shouldn't cost anything should it...
How much for a 5-second spot on local TV...just to flash the WDR logo? 1 second? 1-1 thousand? 1 misissippi?
PS I saw that SWB fired Brat...I saw that...I read it...so I'm thinking that was it...but you know, Mike will probably let him hang around the clubhouse, you know, just to jaw and steal jerky
Posted by: Hofbraunow | November 12, 2010 at 03:03 AM
PS that's "1-Mississippi"....had to add an "s"....
I am from here
Posted by: Hofbraunow | November 12, 2010 at 07:47 AM
It might be a small victory, but any victory is welcome.
This franchise does not deserve sellouts. Mike Brown does not deserve sellouts.
Go former tickets buyers of Cincinnati! :-)
Posted by: BMN | November 12, 2010 at 03:57 PM
Just something that I forgot to comment on... ...You can project (an opinion) all you want and... ...you may be right. But to state it as fact... That's wrong!
I see this happen a LOT on this website. Speaks volumes for and ABOUT the writer.
Posted by: wch | November 15, 2010 at 08:05 PM