Sep 23rd 2008 12:28PM by Sportz Assassin (author feed)
Filed under: Bengals, Bills, Lions, Raiders, Saints, NFL Fans, NFL Real Talk
So, I’m driving around running some errands and decide to listen to the local sports talk radio. I live in Cincinnati now, so most of the talk is pretty bad. Fans are tired of talking about all the little reasons why the Bengals are bad. The main reason is something that cannot be fixed: owner Mike Brown.
Brown is one of those cheap owners who inherited his organization (from his legend of a father) but doesn’t know how to organize it. The story keeps on going, but it just ends with him being a bad owner (just one winning season in the 16 full seasons he has owned the team). Even his Wikipedia page says he is one of the worst owners in professional sports.
On the radio today, they were discussing the sad fact that fans would actually be cheering Mike Brown dying and the team being run by someone else. What? You’d cheer a man’s death just so your football team can be better?
It happens. Remember how fans booed during a moment of silence for Chicago Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz a year ago? Wirtz was very unpopular and fans viewed his death as a great moment for their hockey club.Continue Reading
