The Fans have spoken

[J24]

There were only 44,000 at the game. The Fans have clearly spoken about how much they're done with this team in it's current form.

[*jason*]

(12-02-2018, 11:43 PM)Jakeypoo Wrote: There were only 44,000 at the game. The Fans have clearly spoken about how much they're done with this team in it's current form.

When I was outta the room, I'd hear cheering. I'd walk back in, and the Broncos had just made a play. What a pathetic environment.

Not showing up doesn't hurt Mike Brown. He makes his money off TV.

I'm not judging. I'm not showing up either.

[Bengalholic]

Unfortunately, the owner of this team has never cared about the optics or fan dissatisfaction. 

[Nicomo Cosca]

Still way too many.

[Fan_in_Kettering]

Broncos fans. Bengals fans. It’s all orange and Mike Brown can’t tell the difference.

[George Cantstandya]

As long as there is revenue sharing as it is to this day, NFL owners have little to care if their team sucks. A team can be terrible and the owner still rakes in about $200+ million from revenue share alone per season. How many other products out there where the consumer can be disappointed in the product for decades and the company still makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year?

Revenue sharing should be reworked for one to try to stop teams from tanking and two to stop people like Mike Brown from just coasting with little care for the product they produce. Any team that finishes ranked below 16th should lose a percentage of their revenue share scaled based on where they finished. Finish 17th, lose 2%, finish 18th lose 3%, finish 19th lose 4% etc. The amount subtracted from the revenue share should be donated to charity.

Mike Brown is earning over 200 million a year via revenue sharing whether you go to the games or not. Even after salary and other expenses that's still a great return from revenue sharing alone.

tl;dr Mike doesn't care if you go to the games. Since they removed the black out rule ticket sales have probably declined even more. I remember when local companies would buy tickets just to avoid the black out when sales sucked. That doens't even matter anymore.

[Nicomo Cosca]

(12-02-2018, 11:55 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Broncos fans. Bengals fans. It’s all orange and Mike Brown can’t tell the difference.

Yep. All their money is green. And 44k tickets is still a lot of damn Wendy’s value meals.

[Fan_in_Kettering]

(12-03-2018, 12:19 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: Yep. All their money is green. And 44k tickets is still a lot of damn Wendy’s value meals.

He prefers Frisch’s — but your point is well taken.

[Nicomo Cosca]

(12-03-2018, 12:21 AM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: He prefers Frisch’s — but your point is well taken.

Frisch’s? Idk man that’s kinda pricey.

[Gamma Ray Tan]

Since the season is lost, does anybody know the record for lowest attendance for a NFL game....Let’s make it interesting and get a boycott going to break the record, We can do it!

[THE PISTONS]

It's interesting...in a league of revenue sharing, the Bengals are ran like a small market baseball franchise.

[Gamma Ray Tan]

Here’s a list of the smallest crowds for games since 1992…

1. Dec. 15, 1996: Bengals (7-8) at Oilers (7-8), 15,131

2. Oct. 12, 1997: Bengals (1-5) at Oilers (2-4), 17,071

3. Sept. 21, 1997: Ravens (3-1) at Oilers (1-2), 17,737

4. Dec. 6, 1992: Colts (6-7) at Patriots (2-11), 19,429

5. Sept. 15, 1996: Ravens (1-2) at Oilers (2-1), 20,082

6. Nov. 24, 1996: Panthers (8-4) at Oilers (6-6), 20,107

7. Dec. 8, 1996: Jaguars (7-7) at Oilers (7-7) 20,196

8. Dec. 1, 1996: Oilers (7-6) at Jets (1-12), 21,7321

9. Sept. 14, 2003: Seahawks (2-0) at Cardinals (0-2), 23,127

10. Dec. 14, 2003: Panthers (9-5) at Cardinals (3-11), 23,217

11. Nov. 2, 2003: Bengals (3-5) at Cardinals (3-5), 23,531

12. Nov. 23, 1997: Bills (5-7) at Oilers (6-6), 23,571

13. Oct. 12, 2003: Ravens (3-2) at Cardinals (1-5), 24,193

LET’S BREAK OUR OWN RECORD! < 15,000

[Pat5775]

That’s still about 40,000 too many. Fans need to smarten up and avoid this cesspool of a “team” until the necessary changes are made.

[samhain]

(12-02-2018, 11:46 PM)jason Wrote: When I was outta the room, I'd hear cheering. I'd walk back in, and the Broncos had just made a play. What a pathetic environment.

Not showing up doesn't hurt Mike Brown. He makes his money off TV.

I'm not judging. I'm not showing up either.

I dunno, man.  Like I said before, I think the Browns really might've been naive enough to think that bringing Marvin back wouldn't have a lasting impact on fan support.  Obviously it has, and they've been busting their rear ends trying to hawk tickets since the preseason.  Big ad campaign was on TV constantly.  Those ads aren't free.  A team with fan support doesn't need a big ad campaign to sell tickets, and a team with solid fan support doesn't need to shell out money for TV ads.

They're hurting.  Believe it, or don't, but they want people in the stadium buying their stuff.  

Their worst case scenario is playing out in realtime.  They were hurting when the year started and the team was doing well.  Attendance was still shitty.  Now they are hemorrhaging, and the team has a very real chance at not winning again in 18.  

They need to clean this mess up.  They may not need the money, but I doubt anyone who cares about it that much wants to keep flushing it down the toilet, and that's what they've been doing for the last 11 months.

[samhain]

(12-03-2018, 12:32 AM)Gamma Ray Tan Wrote: Here’s a list of the smallest crowds for games since 1992…

1. Dec. 15, 1996: Bengals (7-8) at Oilers (7-8), 15,131

2. Oct. 12, 1997: Bengals (1-5) at Oilers (2-4), 17,071

3. Sept. 21, 1997: Ravens (3-1) at Oilers (1-2), 17,737

4. Dec. 6, 1992: Colts (6-7) at Patriots (2-11), 19,429

5. Sept. 15, 1996: Ravens (1-2) at Oilers (2-1), 20,082

6. Nov. 24, 1996: Panthers (8-4) at Oilers (6-6), 20,107

7. Dec. 8, 1996: Jaguars (7-7) at Oilers (7-7) 20,196

8. Dec. 1, 1996: Oilers (7-6) at Jets (1-12), 21,7321

9. Sept. 14, 2003: Seahawks (2-0) at Cardinals (0-2), 23,127

10. Dec. 14, 2003: Panthers (9-5) at Cardinals (3-11), 23,217

11. Nov. 2, 2003: Bengals (3-5) at Cardinals (3-5), 23,531

12. Nov. 23, 1997: Bills (5-7) at Oilers (6-6), 23,571

13. Oct. 12, 2003: Ravens (3-2) at Cardinals (1-5), 24,193

LET’S BREAK OUR OWN RECORD! < 15,000

Here's an idea!

[BengalChris]

(12-02-2018, 11:46 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: Unfortunately, the owner of this team has never cared about the optics or fan dissatisfaction. 

I don't believe the owner of this team is a fan, which is a truly sad statement and one that I honestly believe to be true.

[SladeX]

The fans could find out who has the boxes, and boycott their products/services. Embarass Brown's ass among his peers.

[*rfaulk34*]

(12-02-2018, 11:43 PM)Jakeypoo Wrote: There were only 44,000 at the game. The Fans have clearly spoken about how much they're done with this team in it's current form.

I would have loved to see about 40,000 less.

[*rfaulk34*]

Those were road games though. 

[J24]

(12-02-2018, 11:46 PM)jason Wrote: When I was outta the room, I'd hear cheering. I'd walk back in, and the Broncos had just made a play. What a pathetic environment.

Not showing up doesn't hurt Mike Brown. He makes his money off TV.

I'm not judging. I'm not showing up either.

(12-02-2018, 11:46 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: Unfortunately, the owner of this team has never cared about the optics or fan dissatisfaction. 

What I am worried about is that there going to try to move the team and there going to use attendance as an issue.