Letter From Mike Brown

[*jason*]

(04-21-2017, 12:49 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: This is a Bengals message board. Mike Brown is the owner and GM of the Bengals. I wonder how often Jerry Jones is a topic on Cowboys message boards?


1. It's not about entitlement brother. This is just the way it goes with any product or service. If you're paying for cable and it keeps going out, you're going to complain. Nintendo fans have been pissed about the availability of the NES classic and the Switch (and Nintendo's aloof attitude towards the scarcity). People have complained about McDonald's for years. Maybe you could call it consumer feedback. I love the Bengals, but I want them to be better.

2. It's easy to write a letter when he's desperately trying to make sure the stadium isn't half empty for the 50th anniversary. I'm obviously far from alone on this, but as someone who has been around since the 90's, I have trouble believing he cares so deeply about fans and the city. Like I've been saying...he hasn't done all he can to win, and he's shown extreme loyalty to embarrassments like Pacman. Am I wrong? If not, why are you questioning my questioning of Mike's letter?

3. Ya think? Yeah, he has earned every bit of criticism thrown his way, and I'm not going to feel guilty for feeling the way I do. The Bengals are 165-216-3 (.434) during my span as a fan. Obviously 0-7 in the playoffs. Sorry I'm not happy about it. I could've left for another team or stayed and *****. I opted to stay and *****. 

4. Our most recent record was 6-9-1. You say "leave the 90's in the 90's", but for how long are people like you going to bring up being "competitive" for most of the last decade (which happens to include 4 losing seasons)? Even if you only include Marv's tenure (leaving the 90's in the 90's), then our record is 118-103-3 (.533) with no playoff wins in 14 seasons. No fan base would be happy with that, Real Deal. None. That's mediocre regular season results mixed with record setting failure in the playoffs. Why should I be happy with that? Please tell me.

I'm sure most fan bases do feel their team could be better, but outside of Cleveland and Detroit, no team has dealt with what we've dealt with over the last 20+ years. Not many teams haven't won a single playoff game over the last 14 years, either. Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland...and maybe a couple others. We are in pretty exclusive company. Until Mike fixes this by doing what it takes to field a real championship contender, he's going to have folks questioning his intentions.

Not that I disagree with you. I didn't mean to come off as putting anybody or this thread down. It's just that some (not you) seem to let that old man ruin their enjoyment of the team. I read a lot of "I'm done" with this or that. At one time, he got on my nerves too. But there ain't a damn thing I can do to change his ways. So I just enjoy "his" product.

I do find it silly to instantly dismiss this letter though. Hell I've heard time and again that he will actually respond to anybody with enough time on their hands to write him. How many owners do that? I do get it though... It'd be real nice to see a season last 19 weeks or more sometime soon... Maybe we just have to "clean some things up, do a better job on third down, and keep grinding" Shake... Haha