06-16-2017, 02:45 PM
(06-16-2017, 11:43 AM)3wt Wrote: With us it will take more than 1 Superbowl win to get rid of our bad boy image.
It's a sticky label that we don't deserve. We've had no more thugs on our teams than a lot of other teams. Every team in the NFL had their bad boys, they just get the "boys will be boys" treatment, where the Bengals get the scarlet "T".
The press, draft sites (Walter Football being notorious) and even other teams share this perception. But Dallas and Pittsburgh - and even the Patriots have all had every bit as many thugs and problem children as us.
We'll have to become a dynasty to shed that image.
True, great points. One super bowl would help but it'll definitely take one or two more to completely shed the notorious image. I can see plenty of fans, media members etc. chalking our super bowl win up to luck or "a fluke".
For a team that's been irrelevant when it counts we certainly have an awful lot of haters. I guess it's that bully mentality that perverts society: it's easy to pick on the little guy... Hopefully that changes soon
