Fans describe the Cincinnati Reds as “professional” and “family-oriented,” while tagging the Bengals as “profit-maximizing,” according to a survey (h/t go-bengals) by sports consulting firm Turnkey Sports & Marketing.
Approximately 200 local fans also described the Bengals as “fun,” indicating that either a wry sense of humor or masochistic tendencies are rampant in Bengaldom.
Bengals owner Mike Brown was “mystified” by the perception that the Bengals put profit ahead of other considerations.
Seriously. Mystified.
“Profit is not a bad thing. It’s a good thing,” he said. “It’s good for the fans to have a healthy business. I should point out that we have been down here at Paul Brown Stadium for, what, this is our ninth year. Over that whole time, we have not paid out any of our profit to shareholders beyond what is necessary to pay taxes. Every penny of the rest has been put back into the team.”
Sigh. Gee, Mike, I don’t know where people might have gotten the idea that it’s money uber alles in Cincy. Maybe that whole releasing Willie Anderson over a lousy $2 million pay cut thing? Being about the only team in the NFL without an indoor practice facility, like the one even your dad’s old high school now has? The whole suing ticketholders bit from the previous post? Or, of course, any of the “classic” examples, such as one of Marvin Lewis’ first actions being getting you to buy footstools for the locker room, or not providing towels large enough to cover Anderson’s ample bubble?
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I could do this all day.
But to do so would be to emphasize what’s secondary. The primary issue was nailed by go-bengals poster USN Bengal:
It’s just unbelievably sad that Mike Brown cannot see that even though the team “puts all the money back into itself”, that if you keep having the same dumbasses make the same bad decisions, that it won’t matter what you do with the money.
Game. Set. Match.
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