07-19-2021, 11:48 AM
(07-19-2021, 11:22 AM)pally Wrote: You may not need it but others do. We've had winning teams before and still couldn't fill the stadium. So obviously, winning alone won't put bodies, with wallets, in the bleachers especially coming off a series of losing seasons. Marketing is all part and parcel of running a business and an area that has been sorely lacking in the Bengals for a very very long time.
I mean, the very first sentence of my post acknowledges that a lot of people love the work she's doing and that she must be doing a good job. And I meant for me calling myself a "Negative Nelly" and a "cynic" to be self-deprecating. I realize there's plenty of people who enjoy this type of stuff, and I didn't want to put them down.
I will have to disagree somewhat on the we've had winning teams and couldn't fill the stadium part of your post. For the most part, that isn't true. I'm pretty sure PBS had like a decade in a row of sellouts in the 2000's. And if you look at the attendance from 2010 through 2020, there's a lot of years where attendance was 60k plus. The only years that were not were 2011 (we were coming off a 4-12 season) and 2017 and on.
Fwiw, I totally understand marketing is all part of the gig. This just reads to be a bit too much. It's hard for me not to roll my eyes at some of this stuff. But to each their own, if this fires other people up then that's great.