11-23-2020, 12:47 PM
(11-23-2020, 12:12 PM)PhilHos Wrote: I was talking about when it comes to the Bengals ownership, how they run the team, etc. What you or I want matters not a single iota to what the Bengals are going to do. Doesn't mean we can't talk about it, but I can't get mad at the Bengals for not listening to me or my thoughts.
You can't get "mad" when a product fails to live up to your expectations?
Let's compare the Bengals to an internet provider, who has a monopoly in a small town. (The Bengals have a monoply on our fandom)
Internet Company X has a service that delivers like 2 MBPS, and is constantly going in and out of service. You try to watch a movie and it constantly buffers or disconnects. Web pages take forever to load. Downloading 2 Girls One Cup takes hours.
Your service is so much worse than what the people get a town over. Your service has been terrible for years, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, short of moving (changing teams).
Are you allowed to be mad when something especially inconvient happens for the umpteeth time? Say you order that Tyson- Roy Jones Jr. fight coming up, and have a bunch of friends over. You're so excited (we're so excited for Burrow). Now say your internet ruins the enitre experience.
If you turn to your friend and say "God dammnit, this shitty internet is out again! They never fix this." do you think a reasonable reply from your friend in that situation is "Really don't know why you're getting mad about it. You know they don't care what you think?"
The Bengals, at the end of the day, are a product. A 2+ billion dollar company. A 2+ billion dollar company subsidized by public tax dollars. A company that relies on our attention and support.
I think we're all entitled to get as mad as we want at them as any other company. I mean, the CEO of Best Buy might not care to personally take my phone call, but you better sure I'm going to be pissed if they sell me a broken TV.
Maybe the team should care more about what people like Crazydawg think. Maybe that would keep them from having 20k people in a 65k seat stadium, and their tickets resaling for $5 a pop on Stubhub late in the year.
