07-24-2019, 12:34 AM
(07-23-2019, 07:00 PM)NKURyan Wrote: 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).It does to me to. With that being said how many times did we here we made the playoffs 5 straight times vs we went 0-5. We took a lot of criticism during that time period from the national media that takes a toll on a fanbase. Also those losses hurt a lot more than having a bad season. I still have nightmares from our last playoff game.
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...
