Whats the Deal??

[George Cantstandya]

(09-15-2019, 05:42 PM)Spider Wrote: Why is the Stadium 50% empty..
I live in another country but would be there to support this team every Sunday at home
The players look deflated simply because the stadium is friggin empty
Please explain..
Cincinatti is by far one of the cheapest cities to attend a game

The team has been below average for 3 years and counting.  The public perception is that the owner who also runs the team doesn't really care and doesn't want to invest in winning.  A new head coach I think was a move to try to change that perception but it maybe wasn't enough. 

Add in that they have not had luck with recent draft picks resulting in a shoddy offensive line at best, a skeleton crew at LB and a QB that is overall average, often hot and cold and the basis of the Dalton line (otherwise known as the Dalton Scale).  Toss in no exciting free agency acquisitions. 


The result is a fan base that is probably becoming more and more disinterested.  So many probably decide to save their money and stay home until things change enough to sway them in the direction of going to the games. I don't know how much it costs in your country to go to a game and support your team, but here it can easily costs hundreds of dollars. I think people are hesitant to give that money to an owner that is publicly perceived as being disinterested in investing in winning.

Overall I think fans are just fatigued by having a few seasons where it looks like things turned around only to see it regress back to the same old same old. The one constant during all this has been the owner. And people don't perceive that as a positive.