Losing a football team

[grampahol]

It's tough to guess what goes through the minds of players, but one thing that I do know is that very very few of them grow up as Bengals fans and the same can be said of every team. Even the worse players are paid more per year than most fans will ever get paid.

Professional teams and even most college teams don't recruit just from the local area. It's too bad really because most fans dilude themselves into believing that the players really care deeply about the local towns they play in. A few might, but at the end of the season almost all of them go back to where they came from. Coaches aren't much different either. 
I'd find it rather odd if players to a man all thought that their head coach always cared about the local towns as much as the team as a whole would like us to believe or if they all had full faith in their coaching ability or philosophy . After all , almost every player in the NFL has to have a certain amount of ego to think they're good enough to even play the game and I'm pretty sure a huge number of them think they would be a better coach than even the best coaches ..