Can't resist posting this photo and commentary from yesterday's game from reader Matt. Take it away Matt:
I know a lot of folks back in Cincinnati didn't have to watch the game due to the black out, but because I live in Texas I was able to see it on Sunday Ticket. I thought Id pass along the highlight of the game. As they came back from commercial after the saints went up 20-6 in the third, Fox showed that guy that we've all seen a thousand times, the #1 Fan. Behind him to the right though was a guy throwing caution to the wind sporting a WDR T-shirt. You could see his face but I took a photo of it obscured in case Mikey Boy sent his thought police after him.
"But SWB you are boycotting the Bengals this guys is killing the cause not supporting it your a hypocrite I hate you are selling out blah blah blah"
Okay okay, I get it. This guy shouldn't even go to the game. Just suspend your fervent, fundamentalist dedication to The Cause for a moment and take some time to laugh. Some folks are always going to go to games, assholes that they are, and at least they can wear our damn shirts to mock Mike Brown.
(also, for those trolls in the comments who will condemn us for simply exploiting fan sentiment to make a buck ourselves, please note we've actually made TWO whole bucks off our t-shirt sales. seriously, that's an audited figure. i can put you in touch with our accountant holyshitaccountingisboring@wdrisrippingyouoff.com should you wish to verify it)
It is very funny to me that someone can rationalize spending their hard earned dollars on a Bengals tix and wear/take a Paul (Derby or whatever it is) / Mike (Brown bag), just amazing. Would LOVE (read: be extremely exxasperated by) an explanation of that.
That guy represents us every time we play on TV, especially during prime time. SO the wife watches 16 and pregnant all the time (Uggh, spare me I know) and I oblige to watch with her sometimes as requested. They had this episode where the girl is from the Greater Cincy Area, and all I could think was, "Fuck, this is how we look to the nation, like a fat ugly highlands high school idiot, and her fat ugly UK gear wearin baby daddy, great."
This is how I feel about this guy. As pathetic as the Jets "fireman" guy without as much psycho fervor or necessary success.
Posted by: CurseofBoJackson | December 06, 2010 at 03:39 PM
Come on SWB, I fully intend to rip into you supporting buying season tickets.
Sadly, I was expecting to see many more of those shirts or the fire Brat shirts. Didn't see more than a couple.
The atmosphere at the games has changed. Sure, people cheer, but the outcome of the game does not seem to matter. People just don't care as much it seems.
Posted by: WhoDeyFans | December 06, 2010 at 05:03 PM
What some people don't understand is that sometimes extraordinary measures are called for...like when an undercover cop has to take drugs to avoid a blown cover...
What is seen here may seem counter-intuitive, until WDR shirt guy is witnessed in the same frame as #1-douche-wannabe-guy... : ) : ) : )
that is both beautiful and priceless
Posted by: Hofbraunow | December 06, 2010 at 05:20 PM
btw, blackout schmackout; I watched it on a webstream...but in hindsight, as is often the case,
I don't know why I bothered... :(
Posted by: Hofbraunow | December 06, 2010 at 06:13 PM
Looks like Yahoo! Sports noticed the latest Bungle as well.
You get what you pay for.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Saints-try-to-bait-Bengals-into-jumping-offsides?urn=nfl-292035
Posted by: Hofbraunow | December 06, 2010 at 06:35 PM
What happened to the orange Storm Trooper that used to show up at all the games?
Posted by: Brian | December 06, 2010 at 06:55 PM
Mike Brown has stopped the entrance of the orange storm trooper guy into PBS for copyright infringement. Mike inherited an NFL team whose colors include orange and he will not allow some guy to deface his teams integrity and ability to win in the stands while wearing a different uniform (storm trooper) in the color orange.
It appears, only members of the inherited NFL team on the field wearing the uniforms selected for them including the color orange can deface the team and it's integrity and inability to win.
Posted by: kotw65 | December 06, 2010 at 08:19 PM
The Bengals were "masterfully-baited" into jumping off sides by the saints.
They are master baiters.
Mike Brown masterfully-baits us into financially supporting his team every year without altering the way he does business.
MFB is also a master baiter.
The taxpayers of Hamilton county, the city, and the fans?
Just the master's clean up towel.
Posted by: JM | December 06, 2010 at 08:40 PM
"What happened to the orange Storm Trooper that used to show up at all the games?"
Well, Brian, I'll tell you...he was born from a tree in Florida, in a galaxy far, far, away, and then he came to PBS, and got busted for Chewin' George Lucas Chocolate:
(btw, GibB Haynes is not flipping you off, he's flipping me off....for admitting that he's flipping me off)
Posted by: Hofbraunow | December 06, 2010 at 09:04 PM
ahem, he was busted for Chewin' George Lucas' Chocolate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG56PPrNf3w
Posted by: Hofbraunow | December 06, 2010 at 09:09 PM
And I quote:
'Holy crap, Pat Sims' indeed
Posted by: Vlad-a-mere Puntin' | December 06, 2010 at 09:27 PM
Maybe he got the tickets free.
Posted by: Mark Luedtke | December 06, 2010 at 10:00 PM
WhoDeyFans wrote:
"The atmosphere at the games has changed. Sure, people cheer, but the outcome of the game does not seem to matter. People just don't care as much it seems."
WhoDeyFans, that's because Mike Brown is the Grinch Who stole Cincinnati, and the people at those games are from Who-Ville (aka Cincinnati Gardens),
as opposed to Burgerville (which was located at Crosley Field, though now exists only in our hearts)...Burgervillians would never stand for Mike Brown's shennanigans...and neither should we...
...Beer Summit *not* required;
Beerhall Putsch not really practical,
because some failed artist ruined it...
Posted by: Boris YellowSprings | December 06, 2010 at 11:52 PM
"Maybe he got the tickets free."
And, maybe he blasted a bunch of rebels, for a certain Sith-lord (and for the Emperor of course)...
...yeah, he got them free allright...
...these rebels just happened to have tickets, and so he 'got' them from their fried rebel Franklin Planners (the most likely explanation)
...And, maybe we'd all like to twiddle Princess Leia's futuristic side-knob/hair-buns,
instead of any Tokyo-tuners...(the least relevant possibility)
Posted by: Mötley Krüschev | December 07, 2010 at 12:27 AM
Did I say 'futuristic'?
I meant primitive, exotic, ancient, and antiquated...
...kinda like the Bengals at the Superbowl
Posted by: Mötley Krüschev | December 07, 2010 at 12:38 AM
For me, it's NEVER been the cost, it has been the content -- 'bagging' MBB and 'hatting' PB when the reality PB wasn't a better coach/GM either in the command of the Bengals. Want to criticize both of them, go ahead -- that would be both truthful and apporpriate -- but honest-to-God, quit trying to make it look like Paul Brown was a saint with the Bengals -- he was a moron of the first order.
But considering that this comes from people who were nothing but big babies (I want my teaaammmmmmm WAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!), I shouldn't expect any different.
We need a new team owner and an indoor practice facility!!!!! WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Posted by: wch | December 07, 2010 at 01:02 AM
I want to hear Carson Palmer say it,
say it at a press conference:
Holy crap, Pat Sims
It'll prolly go something like this, "I'm frustrated; it's my fault that HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS"
Posted by: Mötley Krüschev | December 07, 2010 at 02:14 AM
T.O.(takes sunglasses off):
Let me look you in the eyes.
We are HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
We find ways to HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
It's not fai- HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
We lost as a te- HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Posted by: Mötley Krüschev | December 07, 2010 at 02:19 AM
JFK: Ask not what your country can- HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Patrick Henry: Give me liberty or- HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain: This document means peace for our- HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Winston Churchill: We will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in a house with a mouse, we will fight them in a box with a fox, we will HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
FDR: today is a day which will live in HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
FDR (again): the only thing we have to fear is HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Thomas Jefferson: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Ronald Reagan: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Marvin Gaye: And when I get that fee- HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Little Richard: Good Golly Miss HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Sly & the Family Stone: I 1 2 thank you fa lettin' mee bee mice elf HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Charlotte Church: AAAAAAVVVEE MA-REEEEEE-EEE- HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
The Waltons: Good night John-Boy...Good night Jim-Bob...Good night gramp- HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Mick Jagger: I see a red door and I want to HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
H.A.L. (from 2001: A Space Odyssey): I'm afraid I can't do HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
David Bowie: This is ground control to Major HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Dr. Seuss: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue F- HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Shel Silverstein: And the tree was HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
'I am tired', said the boy
HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS
Posted by: Mötley Krüschev | December 07, 2010 at 03:00 AM
From the movie, "Carson the Barbarian"
Subotai: "He is Carson, Captaimmerian. He will not cry, so I cry for him. HOLY CRAP, PAT SIMS"
Posted by: Mötley Krüschev | December 07, 2010 at 03:47 AM
The storm trooper guy sits in section 128 and was there this sunday as always.
Posted by: asdf | December 07, 2010 at 06:41 PM
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-the-season/09000d5d81cb8b5a/The-Season-Blank-s-commitment?module=HP_cp2
An interesting video about Arthur Blank and the job he's done with the Falcons for the past decade, despite the Vick/Petrino fiascos.
The money line: "I try to surround myself with people frankly who are smarter than me, brighter than me, and then just get out of their way and let them do their jobs."
The Falcons are 10-2. The Bengals are 2-10. The Falcons have 3 consecutive winning seasons now dating to 2008. The Bengals haven't had 3 winning seasons in a row since 1975-1977. Juuuuust saying.
Posted by: Mockenrue | December 07, 2010 at 06:51 PM
Mock,
Ah, but they did have FOUR consecutive NON-LOSING SEASONS from 2003-2006. Arthur Blank WISHES he could say that.
Okay, no, he probably doesn't, but remember when 2003 and 2004 were seen as a sign that things were changing? Isn't is sad now, looking back, that an entire fandom could get so excited for simple mediocrity?
Posted by: Wyatt | December 07, 2010 at 08:24 PM
Now, I wonder, what are we supposed to take away from the Redskins' Haynesworth Fiasco?
That it's smart to spend cheap on players?
Or, that it's dumb to spend tons on sucky players?
Should we feel better about the Antonio Bryant screwup now?
Posted by: Hofbraunow | December 07, 2010 at 08:56 PM
'The storm trooper guy sits in section 128 and was there this sunday as always."
The [orange-and-black] storm trooper guy also posted here yesterday : )
Posted by: Hofbraunow | December 07, 2010 at 09:05 PM
Holy crap
They would have lost anyway
Holy crap
Mike brown has been losing since Pat Sims' dick was smaller than his son Katie's.
Holy crap you are a fuck tool
Holy crap
Holy crap
Holy crap, dude we are all grown ups here. Quit sounding like a Mormon and just say "holy shit"
Posted by: JM | December 07, 2010 at 09:51 PM
What we should learn from Albert is that he is still 10 times better than our best defensive player and that he will be available for well below fair market value.
However since Mike Fucking Brown doesn't believe his own bullshit.
Because his bullshit is a bullshit excuse not to spend money, then we won't get anywhere near him.
Make sense?
Posted by: JM | December 07, 2010 at 09:57 PM
Holy crap, yes, and now I've got to get back to my Mormon wives, and try to deal with that strange underwear they have to wear
Posted by: Mötley Krüschev | December 08, 2010 at 07:06 AM