This is intended to be a lighthearted thread with all the anger/bad news lately.
Simple question. Do you believe in curses? Is this city cursed?
As I reflect back on 2020 Cincinnati sports, I can't help but laugh at another lousy year.
Cincinnati Bengals - Draft a player that will change the face of this franchise only to see his knee get shredded. Team finishes with another top 5 draft pick and we are bringing back ZT and Lou.
Cincinnati Reds - Storm back to make the playoffs only to lose 0-2 without scoring a run. The first team to ever do that.
Cincinnati Bearcats - Historically great football season. Highest rated G5 school only to get leaped frogged by 2 loss teams at the end. Then they cap the season by blowing a big lead in the Peach Bowl.
So what do we do? Do we have a public seance on fountain square? Do we bring in a voodoo witch doctor to exorcise the demons?
Here is my proposal. We bring in Bo Jackson and make him honorary captain for the 1st game. Here he will publicly absolve Cincinnati from inuring his hip. He will then literally bury a hatchet outside of the stadium. WEBN 102.7 can sponsor the event.
(01-05-2021, 12:42 PM)BleedNOrange Wrote: This is intended to be a lighthearted thread with all the anger/bad news lately.
Simple question. Do you believe in curses? Is this city cursed?
As I reflect back on 2020 Cincinnati sports, I can't help but laugh at another lousy year.
Cincinnati Bengals - Draft a player that will change the face of this franchise only to see his knee get shredded. Team finishes with another top 5 draft pick and we are bringing back ZT and Lou.
Cincinnati Reds - Storm back to make the playoffs only to lose 0-2 without scoring a run. The first team to ever do that.
Cincinnati Bearcats - Historically great football season. Highest rated G5 school only to get leaped frogged by 2 loss teams at the end. Then they cap the season by blowing a big lead in the Peach Bowl.
So what do we do? Do we have a public seance on fountain square? Do we bring in a voodoo witch doctor to exorcise the demons?
Here is my proposal. We bring in Bo Jackson and make him honorary captain for the 1st game. Here he will publicly absolve Cincinnati from inuring his hip. He will then literally bury a hatchet outside of the stadium. WEBN 102.7 can sponsor the event.
What is your proposal?
I said about 6 months ago I thought WEBN should sponser something where Bengals fans all get to go into the stadium with burning sage and cleanse it. Of course, covid kind of prevents that now.
(01-05-2021, 12:42 PM)BleedNOrange Wrote: This is intended to be a lighthearted thread with all the anger/bad news lately.
Simple question. Do you believe in curses? Is this city cursed?
As I reflect back on 2020 Cincinnati sports, I can't help but laugh at another lousy year.
Cincinnati Bengals - Draft a player that will change the face of this franchise only to see his knee get shredded. Team finishes with another top 5 draft pick and we are bringing back ZT and Lou.
Cincinnati Reds - Storm back to make the playoffs only to lose 0-2 without scoring a run. The first team to ever do that.
Cincinnati Bearcats - Historically great football season. Highest rated G5 school only to get leaped frogged by 2 loss teams at the end. Then they cap the season by blowing a big lead in the Peach Bowl.
So what do we do? Do we have a public seance on fountain square? Do we bring in a voodoo witch doctor to exorcise the demons?
Here is my proposal. We bring in Bo Jackson and make him honorary captain for the 1st game. Here he will publicly absolve Cincinnati from inuring his hip. He will then literally bury a hatchet outside of the stadium. WEBN 102.7 can sponsor the event.
What is your proposal?
For the Bengals, publicly apologize to all sports fans for being the team that ended the career of an absolute freak of nature. Since he also played baseball at an All Star level, they may have brought the Reds down with them.
(01-05-2021, 01:07 PM)TecmoBengals Wrote: The Bengals need to bring in Bo Jackson to Cincinnati to atone for past transgressions and sins.
Screw that..... the hit on Jackson was clean. I think they should go the other direction and put a banner of the hit near the 50 yard line along with video clips of him being run down from behind by Rod Jones and the look ot astonishment on his face that someone caught him....
(01-05-2021, 01:09 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Screw that..... the hit on Jackson was clean. I think they should go the other direction and put a banner of the hit near the 50 yard line along with video clips of him being run down from behind by Rod Jones and the look ot astonishment on his face that someone caught him....
It's not about whether it was a clean hit, but rather that it ended the NFL career of a sport legend. That moment in history is clearly what cursed this franchise. We must ask Bo for forgiveness. The Bengals can even retire #34 in honor of Bo, you know before doing something completely obvious like retiring the numbers/having a ring of honor for their own franchise greats (Ahem, #78 for Munoz being the most obvious).
(01-05-2021, 01:09 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Screw that..... the hit on Jackson was clean. I think they should go the other direction and put a banner of the hit near the 50 yard line along with video clips of him being run down from behind by Rod Jones and the look ot astonishment on his face that someone caught him....
That's some kind of ific idea.
Not sure if it's terrific or horrific, but it sure the hell is ific.
(01-05-2021, 12:42 PM)BleedNOrange Wrote: This is intended to be a lighthearted thread with all the anger/bad news lately.
Simple question. Do you believe in curses? Is this city cursed?
As I reflect back on 2020 Cincinnati sports, I can't help but laugh at another lousy year.
Cincinnati Bengals - Draft a player that will change the face of this franchise only to see his knee get shredded. Team finishes with another top 5 draft pick and we are bringing back ZT and Lou.
Cincinnati Reds - Storm back to make the playoffs only to lose 0-2 without scoring a run. The first team to ever do that.
Cincinnati Bearcats - Historically great football season. Highest rated G5 school only to get leaped frogged by 2 loss teams at the end. Then they cap the season by blowing a big lead in the Peach Bowl.
So what do we do? Do we have a public seance on fountain square? Do we bring in a voodoo witch doctor to exorcise the demons?
Here is my proposal. We bring in Bo Jackson and make him honorary captain for the 1st game. Here he will publicly absolve Cincinnati from inuring his hip. He will then literally bury a hatchet outside of the stadium. WEBN 102.7 can sponsor the event.
I don't believe in anyone being able to curse you other than yourself.
In the Bengals case, it has nothing to do with Bo Jackson. No, it has to do with Mike Brown, the person who makes the whacky decisions. It's on the person in-charge.
You are in-charge of your life. If it's a disaster then only you are to blame. Obviously!
As things have been not all that good for the Bengals, just look to see what changed when that started. Well, it started with Mike Brown inheriting the team and naming himself GM. That mistake remains unrectified.
(01-08-2021, 02:59 AM)BengalChris Wrote: I don't believe in anyone being able to curse you other than yourself.
In the Bengals case, it has nothing to do with Bo Jackson. No, it has to do with Mike Brown, the person who makes the whacky decisions. It's on the person in-charge.
You are in-charge of your life. If it's a disaster then only you are to blame. Obviously!
As things have been not all that good for the Bengals, just look to see what changed when that started. Well, it started with Mike Brown inheriting the team and naming himself GM. That mistake remains unrectified.
Not necessarily, MB has put together some damn fine teams. Palmer and Dalton both would probably have taken us to the Super Bowl, each in one respective year, if it were not for them getting injured.
(01-08-2021, 09:21 AM)Sled21 Wrote: Not necessarily, MB has put together some damn fine teams. Palmer and Dalton both would probably have taken us to the Super Bowl, each in one respective year, if it were not for them getting injured.
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