|schotzee| Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 I kinda like it as is as weird as that might sound.They keep it exciting and they keep us on our toes. Winning a Superbowl may be a downer. Am I crazy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.A.B. Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|schotzee| Posted January 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 To expand ..what will keep you excited to remain a Bengal fan after they have won a championship? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkansas Bengal Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 On a similar vein, will you keep buying tickets if you win the Powerball? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalRep85-9 Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 To expand ..what will keep you excited to remain a Bengal fan after they have won a championship? I was born and raised in the Cincinnati area. I'm a fan for life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cincity Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 I was born and raised in the Cincinnati area. I'm a fan for life. Yep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkansas Bengal Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 I was born and raised in the Cincinnati area. I'm a fan for life. Me too, unless they pack up and move to another city someday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cincity Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 Me too, unless they pack up and move to another city someday... Which I'm getting the feeling with as polarizing the rhetoric has been with this team, I can see that happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 11, 2015 Report Share Posted January 11, 2015 To expand ..what will keep you excited to remain a Bengal fan after they have won a championship? Another one. Duh. :). We have a long way to go to catch up with Urineburgh and the forty-noners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|schotzee| Posted January 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Let me break it down a little further. How long do you stay high as a fan after winning any big game in general? For those who have talked about being a fsn for life and all and a championship wouldn't change that. I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeds Orange Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 The one "down" side to the Bengals winning the Super Bowl is one that I've thought of more than once in the past few decades. In my area of Kentucky, I can count on one hand (well, okay, maybe two if I think hard enough) the number of true Bengals fans I know. The majority are for either the Cowboys or Stealers. If the Bengals won one, "fans" would all of a sudden come crawling out of the woodwork, and they'd surely get on my nerves, as all bandwagon fans do. I do hope they win one (or three) though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|SF2| Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Seattle fans don't seem very depressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COB Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Dealing with success is actually not easy, as us Bengals fans wouldn't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRAPradio Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Being a Lakers fan I'll say it is kind of weird. The moment they win championship it's great...they you realize you don't get anything as a fan and it's kind of weird when people congratulate you b/c you really didn't do anything. Then when next season rolls around you forget everything and start rooting for the team like they've never won anything. It's one of those things where I hate my team losing more than I enjoy them winning...if that makes sense. For me it's more of a relief when they win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 uhm let's try winning a playoff game before we talk about what happens after we win a championship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khatmandude Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Seattle fans don't seem very depressed. That's because WA is a medicinal marijuana state and there's access to herb, edibles and concentrates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 That's because WA is a medicinal marijuana state and there's access to herb, edibles and concentrates. meanwhile broncos fans have their pitchforks and torches all fired up.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khatmandude Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 meanwhile broncos fans have their pitchforks and torches all fired up.. Torches will be used to fire up spliffs, then all will return to calm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|kennethmw| Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Most of the fans on here are happy as it is. The current situation allows them to bitch incessantly, and that is the way they like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|schotzee| Posted January 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Torches will be used to fire up spliffs, then all will return to calm. So we have our answer. Legalize marijuana in Cincy. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 as for the topic(well kinda).. as a fan you get a year of bragging rights, cool gear to wear the next year, a place in history forever that you were the best team in the world that year.. and you then have a reasonable assumption that you can be that good again the next year, etc..lots of excitement.. not to mention free agents might give you the time of day.. OFFTOPIC ticket sales/fanbase evaluation: having season tickets for the last 10 years+ has taught me that cincinnati, being the size market that it is, has about 20,000 die hard no matter what bengals fans. so worst team in the league, 20k people are still going to show up. the next group is the "team good enough to win/reason to watch(includes opposing teams fans in ohio)" crowd, which is 20-40k crowd, the reason it can double is based on my next group, which when activated, doubled the previous group. so the 20k die hards come no matter what. 20k more come if they win early, or if they draft a decent name in college, or play a good team(broncos, pats, etc), etc. Lastly is the showstopper/big name/flashy palyer crowd, this group is also about 20k fans, if you have a Palmer, heisman big arm guy, a ocho cinco, big name, flashy guy, makes predictions, etc. when you are winning, have a flashy player, and obviously have the die hards, there is a crowd of 75-80,000 fans in cincinnati area wanting tickets.. any combination of the two, and you are going to have trouble selling out games, lowering TV expectations so you dont need kroger and 5/3 bank to bail you out, etc.. we only have two of those..currently.. while we have some vast talent, none of them are flashy, except hill, and only kinda flashy, green is a top WR, but quiet, same with dunlap, peko, etc.. burfict is flashy, but defense is a different beast.. nfl is an offensive game, QB's fill seats.. Most of the fans on here are happy as it is. The current situation allows them to bitch incessantly, and that is the way they like it. present company especially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Most of the fans on here are happy as it is. The current situation allows them to bitch incessantly, and that is the way they like it. Yeah and those very same guys are talking about making changes, what are they thinking? Doesn't make any sense. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Numbers| Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 Beat Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Baltimore twice each season ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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scharm Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I've always wanted to attend an AFC Championship game with a rockin home crowd. AFC Championship tailgate the whole works. Then if fortune would have it see if I could chase them down and follow them to a Superbowl. Relating to Go's assessment: that seems like a reasonable break down. Explaining the hype and the feeling of the hype can only be explained if you lived through the 1988 season and the subsequent runs. Then recreated when the Bengals beat the Chiefs and that continued through winning the division in 2005. If you think about how consistent winners these past few teams have been then compare to 03-05 it's shameful. 03-05 had everything Burger King bobble heads, enquirer coins, special news segments. 1988 era was even more hype. 2011-2014, IMO, has been met with a collective yawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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