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Bleeds Orange

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  1. I don't care if he was conceived at the 50-yard line at Three Rivers Stadium and raised in an apartment at Heinz Field, next door the Stealers locker room. As a member of the Bengals family, you do not associate with or wear the colors of that franchise, much less take actions to help them win games. I will forever be pissed at one of my all time favorite players for this (Ken Anderson).
  2. Sadly, the logo and colors are not changing. I've also heard rumors that the shoulder panels on the side are going to have mountains on them. I shit you not. Getting rid of the 90s side panels and other craziness will be an improvement, but it sounds like an overall failure is in the works.
  3. Well, the league has never had any problems with rules that involve the "subjectivity of the call", now, has it? I'm confident that every official will see it the same way and call it the same way every play, every game, and that point spreads will, in no way, enter into the decision-making process.
  4. I just don't get this one, AT ALL. The current trend is (thankfully) toward brighter colors, and this is going the opposite direction, eliminating the red numbers. Royal blue with generous amounts of red would have worked so much better. Glad I'm not a Texans fan.
  5. That 1980 team was a lot better than they get credit for, and that season was a foreshadowing of what would happen in 1981. They started 0-2 with losses by 5 points and 1 point, then defeated the defending champion Stealers, who came in at 2-0. The Bengals had been 2-8 against them the previous five seasons. They followed that up with two more losses, by 3 points and 5 points to drop to 1-4, setting up a Week 6 rematch with Pittsburgh, who was now 4-1. The Bengals beat them yet again, this time at Three Rivers, meaning that at that point, the 2-4 Bengals' only two wins were against Pittsburgh and 4-2 Pittsburgh's only two losses were against the Bengals. The Bengals four losses were by a combined 14 points. They were a good team that found a way to lose in the end. After a 14-0 shutout of the Vikings, they were 3-4 and it looked like a first winning season in three years could be possible, but five straight blowout losses put them at 3-9 and it looked like a third straight 4-12 was in the works. They did win three more straight to get to 6-9 before losing a close one at home to Cleveland in Week 16. That was the game Pat McInally got injured on a cheap hit - I'll bet some of you remember it. Does anyone remember if there were extenuating circumstances (injuries?) that led to that five-game losing streak? There was a night and day difference in their performance for those five games compared to the other 11 games.
  6. Yeah that's what I was thinking (and hoping). It hadn't even occurred to me to be worried about Burrow's career until I saw that, and it was kinda stomach-turning. I guess that's exactly the reaction he was seeking.
  7. It's hard to imagine that an NFL franchise would have these conditions, assuming it's true. They could've temporarily solved the outlets problem with one of these, and plumbing is easy enough to fix, no? (I'm guessing this is the first time a picture of an extension cord has been posted on this site. 😄)
  8. The leaping tiger and the head are good logos, but they'd be better if they'd turn them around to face the same direction as almost every other logo in sports (except for the Eagles, who do the same thing). Yes, they look a bit odd, but only because we've been used to them being backwards for so long.
  9. All the replies to the various tweets about the new turf are saying that this stuff causes more injuries, which seems to contradict the press release. Can someone go against the Twitter grain and reassure me that Burrow and other top players aren't going down with ACL injuries by week 4?
  10. There was perfect symmetry before the stupid 17th game was added: four divisions (per conference) of four teams and four 4-game fourths to the season schedule. And there was history. You could compare each team's season with the record of teams past. Now there is no accurate comparison. It's apples and oranges, or something.
  11. These were the preseason odds just three short years ago: 2021 Preseason Super Bowl Odds Tm Super Bowl Odds ▼ W/L O-U Record Houston Texans +30000 4.0 4-13 (push) Detroit Lions +25000 4.5 3-13-1 (under) Cincinnati Bengals +15000 6.5 10-7 (over) New York Jets +15000 6.0 4-13 (under) Jacksonville Jaguars +12500 6.5 3-14 (under) Philadelphia Eagles +10000 6.5 9-8 (over) Atlanta Falcons +8000 7.5 7-10 (under) Carolina Panthers +8000 7.5 5-12 (under) Las Vegas Raiders +8000 7.5 10-7 (over) New York Giants +8000 7.0 4-13 (under) Chicago Bears +6600 7.5 6-11 (under) Denver Broncos +5000 9.0 7-10 (under) Pittsburgh Stealers +5000 8.5 9-7-1 (over) Miami Dolphins +4000 9.0 9-8 (push) Minnesota Vikings +4000 9.0 8-9 (under) New Orleans Saints +4000 9.0 9-8 (push) Washington Football Team +4000 8.5 7-10 (under) Arizona Cardinals +3500 8.5 11-6 (over) Indianapolis Colts +3500 9.0 9-8 (push) Dallas Cowboys +3000 9.0 12-5 (over) Los Angeles Chargers +3000 9.5 9-8 (under) New England Patriots +3000 9.5 10-7 (over) Seattle Seahawks +2500 9.5 7-10 (under) Tennessee Titans +2000 9.5 12-5 (over) Cleveland Browns +1600 10.5 8-9 (under) Baltimore Ravens +1400 10.5 8-9 (under) Green Bay Packers +1400 10.5 13-4 (over) San Francisco 49ers +1400 10.5 10-7 (under) Los Angeles Rams +1200 10.5 12-5 (over) Buffalo Bills +1100 11.5 11-6 (under) Tampa Bay Buccaneers +700 12.0 13-4 (over) Kansas City Chiefs +450 12.5 12-5 (under)
  12. I'm not "for" either team, but here are the reasons I'm against the Chiefs more than I'm against the 49ers: Mahomes - I'd rather he not be in the conversation with the all time greats, his helmet is comically large and sits way too far up on his head and is distracting, he has an annoying voice, and he throws fits when things don't go his way. Kelce Kelce's goofy-acting girlfriend Nobody in the 49ers organization had anything to do with XVI or XXIII, so I've let go of that grudge. Purdy seems like a nice fella.
  13. I liked it as a kid in the 70s and 80s, especially when there was good Bengals representation and players took it somewhat seriously. I loved seeing the different team helmets on the field together. But haven't cared about it since the Bengals went on their skid starting in 1991. What they've done the past few years is pointless, and excluding the players from the two Super Bowl teams waters it down even more.
  14. Just the first couple examples I could think of to search for on YouTube. There are many more.
  15. By the looks of that photo, Travis Kelce has always been an asshole. I think I can safely say he's on my Mount Rushmore of NFL Assholes, along with Hines Ward. It's late and I don't want to try and think of two more. Roethlisassholeburger is probably a nominee.
  16. Well, hell, I'm switching sides. Turned the game on and saw Ray Lewis on the field and also started remembering that the only QBs to beat Kermit in the postseason are Burrow and Brady. I really don't want Lamar joining that group and I don't want the Ravens doing what the Bengals didn't do last year. It's probably better for Burrow and the Bengals for KC to win. So, go Chiefs, I guess. <throws up in mouth>
  17. Take away Mahomes, his wife, the pop singer, and the pop singer's boyfriend, and I'd be for Kansas City. But those four are still in the picture, so I can't be for them. A vocal minority of drunken fans chanting "Eff Joe Burrow" after a game doesn't trump the vomit-inducing behavior of Kelce and the two blondes in the box.
  18. I'm about Kelced out, and that includes the attention seeker in the box last night. I don't think it's just the Chiefs. I read somewhere a few months ago that opposing teams rank the visitors locker room in Buffalo as the worst in the league. The reports were of only one toilet working, cold water standing in the shower, etc. Apparently it's like a dungeon and it may very well be by design. If it's true, the league should do something about it. Demand they upgrade and then have inspectors on hand to make sure things work. Speaking of Buffalo, Mike McConnell shared on WLW that he went to a Bengals fan up there in the late 80s and they saw his Ohio plates and wouldn't let him park in any of the lots, one even going so far as to put his foot on the front of his car to demonstrate that he wasn't allowed in. He finally got into one because the attendance didn't catch his plates, but then got verbally assaulted. One Bengals fan had his car spray painted all over with the words "Ickey Sucks" and random lines of paint. I've always kinda had a soft spot for that franchise, I guess because the Bengals have a history of beating them in big games, but they may not actually be very likeable.
  19. If he goes, it needs to be somewhere besides Kansas City, Buffalo, or an AFCN team.
  20. Yep, exactly. I hate SF but I've already seen a Stealers fan on X fretting that they might tie Good O Stealer Footbawwww with SIX RANGS, so there would at least be that pleasure. But yes, the most important outcome is to see Mahomes, Kelce, Brittany, and the pop singer completely dejected, preferably sobbing, following a season-ending loss. It means as much to me at this point as seeing Pittsburgh suffer.
  21. Wasn't sure where to put this, so I guess here is as good a place as any... With today's announcement of the (apparent) death of Sports Illustrated, people on X are posting their favorite SI memories. That got me thinking about an issue and article that was significant to me. It happened during my favorite Bengals season of all time: 1981. When the December 14, 1981 issue arrived in my mailbox, I'm sure I couldn't believe what I was seeing, because there on the cover was an actual Bengals player, the first to ever be on the cover of SI, posed in the cool new jersey and striped helmet. But even more amazing than the cover was a quote from Collinsworth, where I saw the word "Bengals" and "Super Bowl" mentioned in the same paragraph for the first time in my life. At the time of that interview, the team had just beaten Houston to go to 6-3, one week before the shocking beatdown of the Chargers in San Diego. So to predict a Super Bowl for a team that had gone 4-12, 4-12, and 6-10 was pretty bold. I couldn't believe what I was reading, but I liked it. CATCH A CATCHING STAR: SI Vault - December 14, 1981
  22. You had to go and bring that up. My football knowledge is average, at best, but I spend that whole afternoon screaming "Champ Bailey!" at the TV and throwing things. Even with my limited knowledge, I correctly predicted he was going to be great and Akili wasn't, and it has frustrated me for decades that Bengals management didn't see it that way, too. Akili was the worst pick of the six picks made before Bailey.
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