AmishBengalFan

By the way, I passed my FAA Medical Exam this afternoon. My flight status has been restored, I'm a pilot again. :)

FYI..... This might be a situation that's unique to MY season ticket account (since we have to square the books across different households), but in case anyone else is curious about the single-game pricing breakout for season tickets, here's the run-down for my seats in Section 104 (Lower Bowl, Field, ~10 yard line): Excluding preseason, there are THREE price tiers this year: Suck Teams Nobody Should Pay Actual Money To See: JAX NYJ NEP ARI - $166.25 per seat Teams That Bring Their Own Bandwagon To Paycor: PIT CHI BAL CFT - $183.75 per seat Local NFC Opponent With A Bandwagon That Might Also Be A Superbowl Preview: DET - $218.75 per seat ....and the preseason suck-show against IND is $131.25 per seat. Season Total = $1750 per seat. PRESEASON $131.25: 8/23 (Saturday 1pm) - Dolts REGULAR SEASON: $166.25: 9/14 - Jugulars $218.75: 10/5 (4:25pm) - Loins $183.75: 10/16 (Thursday 8:15pm) - Stealers $166.25: 10/26 - Jests $183.75: 11/2 - Da Bearssssk $166.25: 11/23 - Pathetics $183.75: 12/14 - Raisins $166.25: 12/27 (Sat) or 12/28 (Sun) (Time TBA) - Card-Anals $183.75: 1/3 (Sat) or 1/4 (Sun) (Time TBA) - Clones FWIW, There ya go.

Isobel Hamilton

Those under 40 might not know that at one time Saturday Night Live was funny and entertaining, rather than the cringeworthy mess it is today. Here are the Blues Brothers, Jake and Elwood, singing their version of the song we sang at Riverfront Stadium every time our TE caught a critical pass. The song is "Rodney Holman", which they changed to "I'm A Soul Man" for the NY-based studio audience.

For me, it was the holding penalty on the 49ers on the kickoff after Breech kicked the go-ahead FG with 3+ left in XXIII. SF was backed up to the 9 and our D had only allowed one TD to Montana, Rice, Craig and Taylor. It was in our hands.

Jeff Saturday is available if the Dolts need a QB.

Thanks to everyone who voted. Here's the final tally: 14 Lemar Parrish (1970-77) (b.1947) 11 David Fulcher (1986-92) (b.1964) 10 Bob Trumpy (1968-77) (b.1945) 10 Reggie Williams (1976-89) (b.1954) 8 Dave Lapham (1974-83) (b.1952) 3 Jim Breech (1980-92) (b.1956) 3 James Brooks (1984-91) (b.1958) 2 Max Montoya (1979-89) (b.1956) 2 Cris Collinsworth (1981-88) (b.1959) For the ties, I've arbitrarily ranked them in order by oldest age

Denver..... hmmmm..... I've only been to DSAFoFACMaICSMHSbtybPtcoang (Denver Sports Authority Field on Frontier Airlines Coors Mountain at Invesco Champs Sports Mile High Stadium, brought to you by Pepsi, the choice of a new generation), once. That was back in 2011, several naming rights sponsors ago. Okay, a few questions, as Denver has clearly changed in the decade since all the displaced Californians moved in: 1 - Is pot smoking optional or compulsory? I'm retired and no longer have random drug testing, but I like my few remaining brain cells and dont want to mess anything up. 2 - Since all of the apartment buildings are controlled by TdA, does that extend to all of the hotels or just most of them? 3 - Can I opt out of the LBGTQ stuff and instead enjoy a tasty GQ BLT? .... yummm Otherwise, sounds like fun. Am I crashing on your couch? :)

Season Ticket Holders: The Stripes are doing their annual Open House / Field Day events, starting next Friday. Attendees get access to the new locker room and weight room, on-field access and activities, etc. It's free, but tickets are required, and they're available to STHs - check your email for the link. Parking avaialble in the stadium lots for five or ten bucks (I forget how much, sorry). June 13 (Friday), 14 (Saturday), and 21 (Saturday) only. 10am - 530pm..... start times every 90 minutes I've done it more than once, it's cool. Even caught a TD back in 2012. Recommended. PS - If none of my households claim our tickets, I'll make them available here. I can get 4.

^ bump We are entering the final week of voting. If you have not voted yet, please hurry. There are three guys running neck-and-neck, plus two more who are just a couple of votes from being dangerous. Your vote will matter. Poll closes at midnight ET this Thursday night.

They need to ask me. Staying with the same original list of 17 players at some point would either run dry, or would result in those still on the ballot being passed over year after year. Also, making it 100% dependent on fan voting introduces bias. I would begin adding new names to the list, maybe add four at first then add another each year for a few years. Guys like AJ Green, Geno Adkins, Rodney Holman, Sam Wyche(!), or even Andrew Whitworth or Takeo Spikes. The point is, I believe there are many names deserving of consideration beyond the 7 that will remain after this years' voting. Further, I fervently believe that at this point fan voting should be deemphasized, allowing the team, players, vets, local long-term beat writers, and other enshrinees to weigh-in. Maybe even alternate... fans pick one player in odd years, "insiders" pick in even years. Or establish a minimum number of votes needed to be enshrined, and a lower minimum to remain on the ballot. Bottom line - the process has reached a point where the ballot AND the voting need revamping.

FWIW, the households that share my seats also conducted a vote, and the results were all over the place. To help with tiebreaks, I asked everyone to list THREE names in 1st-2nd-3rd order. Whomever got the most top-2 votes would get in, with all sorts of tiebreakers (most total votes, then most 1st vs most 2nd vs most 3rd, and finally player age) to break the ties. We picked Trumpy outright, and Parrish on tiebreak: Player: 1st-2nd-3rd TRUMPY: 1-2-0 (3 top-2 votes) PARRISH: 1-0-1 (1 top-2 vote, 1st place vote, 2 total votes,1947) Williams: 1-0-1 (1 top-2 vote, 1st place vote, 2 total votes, 1954) Montoya: 1-0-0 (1 top-2 vote, 1st place vote, 1 total vote) Lapham: 0-1-1 (1 top-2 vote, 2nd place vote, 2 total votes, 1952) Breech: 0-1-1 (1 top-2 vote, 2nd place vote, 2 total votes, 1956) So we voted for Trumpy and Parrish, who just happen to be the two senior guys on the ballot.

Done. And didn't know about the FB page ... done as well. 🙂

If I weren't a 5 hour r/t drive to Cincy I'd be all over this. Maybe if I ever get this relo done....

Oh, there are easily 5-6 dudes we could add to that. AJ is definitely on the short list IMO.

I gotchu.

I expect this is because we have only one home night game on the schedule this season. The Open in Orange will be week 2 regardless of lights, but if the team is looking for fan guidance regarding the TNF game against the Stealers.... both choices are excellent, but the team will wear White Bengal for the White Out game, and that needs to be at night. For me... White is the obvious answer.

I'm expecting the new "Open In Orange" tradition will continue against Jacksonville in week 2, and since we have only one home Primetime game, that'll likely be the Ring of Honor Induction night (meaning the reception will be the Friday or Saturday prior), and it'll probably be a White Out.... though a Stripe Out is also a possibility.... both effects look 23x better at night than during the daylight.

? x3 vs Stealers 8:15pm Mountain Time is 10:15pm ET. Do the networks know that?

You're right.

2024 Go-Bengals poll results: Linky: https://forum.go-bengals.com/index.php?/topic/92829-bengals-2024-ring-of-honor-nomimees/ 18: (*)Tim Krumrie 9: David Fulcher 8: (*)Corey Dillon 3: Lemar Parrish 2: Bob Trumpy 2: Reggie Williams 1: Jim Breech 1: James Brooks 1: Max Montoya 0: Cris Collinsworth 0: Dave Lapham (*) = Enshrinee 2023 Go-Bengals poll results Linky: https://forum.go-bengals.com/index.php?/topic/87834-2023-ring-of-honor-nominees/ 16: Tim Krumrie 11: (*)Boomer Esiason 10: (*)Chad Johnson 8: David Fulcher 3: James Brooks 3: Corey Dillon 3: Dave Lapham 3: Max Montoya 2: Lemar Parrish 2: Reggie Williams 1: Cris Collinsworth 0: Jim Breech 0: Bob Trumpy (*) = Enshrinee So apparently, our track record shows that our third place finisher, plus one of the top two, end up getting into the Ring.

Time to Revote! I stupidly didn't set the prior poll to allow multiple selections, and everyone who voted before I caught it were not able to vote again.... so it's do-over time! Okay boys and girls, it's that time of year again! Pumkie has just asked ME (and a few other people) to help the team decide who the next two inductees in the Ring of Honor will be. Just like last year, voting is weighted in favor of those with longer/older accounts. It used to be just a popularity contest, but the implied recency bias that this introduced, with those who played more recently or who had more national exposure, has been somewhat removed. The email: This means old farts like LT and me, who actually saw PB prowling the sidelines at Riverfront, will have our votes given preference over youngsters who think Chad was a veteran nominee. I've added a poll. Actual voting ends June 6th, our poll closes at midnight (ET) June 5th. This is on the honor system - please vote for exactly TWO nominees, just like the actual ballot.

That's not Ja'marr..... I have proof.... He even signed autographs because parents fell for it....

Well.... this will make Isobel happy. Bengals Join NFL's Global Markets Program in Canada Linky: https://www.bengals.com/news/bengals-canada-nfl-global-markets-program We share Canada with 5 other teams, although I'm uncertain why Arizona is one of those (unless that's an error snuck in to poke fun at Canada's Catholic Cardinals that were part of the recent Papal selection process.) Seattle's marketing focus is on BC, Minnesota gets Manitoba, Buffalo gets lower Ontario (the Toronto/Hamilton/St Catherine's region around Lake Ohio), Detroit gets upper Ontario (everything else), and we apparenltly get Quebec, the Maritimes, Alberta and Saskatechewan.

We should go 8-1 against the other animal teams, based on this very accurate graphic showing which mascot would win in a fight