It's the name

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(05-19-2016, 08:38 PM)bengalguy71 Wrote: One of his biggest mistakes with the Bengals was naming Tiger Johnson as HC, instead of Bill Walsh when he stepped down as HC. Poetic justice Walsh beat Brown twice in both Super Bowls!

http://cohn.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/13140/bill-walsh-vs-paul-brown/

[Bill Walsh vs. Paul Brown

My friend and colleague Robert Rubino wrote a terrific 4-part blog for the Press Democrat about Bill Walsh’s years with the Bengals — it’s based on a video you can find on nfl.com.

After reading Robert’s blog I was motivated to look at my book on Walsh — I almost never do — for some of the things he said about Bengals owner and coach Paul Brown who never allowed Bill to be Bengals’ head coach. That eventually led to Bill leaving the Bengals and that led to you know what. So here are some quotes from Bill on the legendary Paul Brown.

“Paul could be downright dishonest or whatever it would take, He’d be a great guy if it was convenient. If it wasn’t, he’d be himself. I had a lot of ambition. I wanted to be a head coach before I died. And he was holding me back because it was a perfect setup for him. It was as unsettling as hell because he had control of my life.”

“The truth is I wasn’t his world. I was like a guy from another planet that dropped in. That was about the time of the Vietnam War, and my hair might have been a little longer than his. And I had these boots you zipped up that my wife got me for Christmas, and he saw them one day and he had a fit, he was so upset. So he was afraid that this kook would be his replacement.”

Brown named Bill Johnson Bengals’ head coach after he stepped down. This is Walsh on getting passed over for Johnson: “If you want to win a goddamn championship, you better have the brains. You can’t win it with a dull guy as head coach, and the smart guy as the assistant. That’s why we didn’t win an AFC championship when Paul was the head coach, because it had to go through Paul to be done. And now it had to go through Bill.”]

Makes sense, but as we all know football is hardly the only place where traditionalism holds people back. Our entire political system is full of the same nonsense. The get elected a candidate pretty much has to come out and pretend to be holier than thou.
If they don't come right out and pray for the nation then sorry.. You can't lead us without the ear of Big Spooky in the sky even if you have the best ideas. It doesn't matter. Honesty? Nobody cares as long as you get up there and profess to going to church every Sunday.