07-23-2019, 07:00 PM
(07-23-2019, 06:51 PM)Jakeypoo Wrote: 1.) Neither team really spends that much which gives the fan base an attitude that the teams don't care right or wrong.
2.) Lack of postseason suçcess since 2008 the Reds and Bengals have gone 0-8 in advancing in the playoffs during that span.
So why was attendance 20+ percentage points higher in 2008? Not only had neither franchise had any postseason success leading up to then, neither franchise had even really had teams in the postseason for the 13 years prior with one exception (the '05 Bengals).
You would think a team that's had 5 playoff appearances in the previous 8 years would outdraw a team that's had 1 playoff appearance in the previous 26 years (in the case of the Bengals), or that a team that's had 3 postseason teams in the last decade would outdraw a team that had 0 postseason appearance in the previous 13 years (in the case of the Reds).
Do Cincinnati fans respond more positively to teams that never make the postseason than they do to teams that make the postseason but don't win? That seems ass-backwards to me. If the Bengals go to the playoffs 5 of the next 10 years and lose every single one of those games I'd take that over 1990-2000, or 2000-2010...
