(01-25-2023, 02:25 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Crow does not taste good. Not to mention trash talk usually distracts the talker more than the target. Then there's that karma or jinx thing. It took 30yrs to get past the Bo Jackson curse. If you have a lucky game shirt, socks, underwear, pants, hat or whatever, then you know what I'm talking about. Just don't want to mess around with that stuff and it leaves an uncomfortable feeling in the gut of us who know better than to piss off the football gods.

(01-25-2023, 02:41 PM)leonardfan40 Wrote: Years of listening to Steelers players and fans teaches us how not to act. I’d prefer to be nothing like them. I don’t have a problem with how any of our guys have carried themselves except Apple. He just needs to dial it back about 80%. Dude went so far overboard the other day with tweets. Just focus up for the next one.

(01-25-2023, 02:51 PM)WiregrassBenGal Wrote: The most important player, Joe B., knows how to keep from getting involved in all of that. "Better get those refunds ready," is simply stating a hard-to-swallow fact for everyone involved in that neutral site game that will never happen.

Watch out for bandwagon fans like the Steelers had for so long.

(01-25-2023, 02:45 PM)Cosmokramer Wrote: When you say bengals fans , it’s a very small group of people who act like this.  In your statement it almost seems like it’s all.  Kinda like those government polls they do that say 67% of Americans love Joe Biden.  They don’t tell you they polled 1k people in a liberal place like Seattle.

(01-25-2023, 03:26 PM)GAWhoDey Wrote: Good job making a totally apolitical topic on a sports forum political.  

I didn't imply anything as far as it being all Bengals fans.  

(01-25-2023, 02:41 PM)leonardfan40 Wrote: Years of listening to Steelers players and fans teaches us how not to act. I’d prefer to be nothing like them. I don’t have a problem with how any of our guys have carried themselves except Apple. He just needs to dial it back about 80%. Dude went so far overboard the other day with tweets. Just focus up for the next one.

(01-25-2023, 02:17 PM)GAWhoDey Wrote: Coming off what might be our most impressive postseason win as a franchise Sunday, seems a lot of the NFL has taken notice of the Bengals and our young core of stars. They've also taken notice of the brashness and trash talking from Eli Apple and others, and it's resulted in a lot of negative backlash towards our team and fan base.  

In turn, it seems that some of our fans are calling for our team to "be humble" or to stop the trash talking as to not draw this type of "negative" attention or to keep the outside perception of us in some kind of positive light.

I guess I understand all that, what I don't understand is why Bengals fans are choosing to push back against our own team right now when they're on the doorstep of getting to the Super Bowl for the second straight year. Who are we to tell the players how to think/act/behave/express themselves?  

And most of all, why would we care what other fan bases think of us at all? Are we trying to be buddies with everyone?  I love the brashness personally, but I'm wondering if this is a generational thing?  Are zoomers more sensitive to this kind of thing?  Personally, I'm not trying to be buddies with anyone, barely even fellow Bengals fans. Definitely not opposing fans on social media.  If 100% of them hate us, I'm cool with that.  

This mindset of worrying about our image with the media or other fans is just very weird.

(01-25-2023, 02:17 PM)GAWhoDey Wrote: Coming off what might be our most impressive postseason win as a franchise Sunday, seems a lot of the NFL has taken notice of the Bengals and our young core of stars. They've also taken notice of the brashness and trash talking from Eli Apple and others, and it's resulted in a lot of negative backlash towards our team and fan base.  

In turn, it seems that some of our fans are calling for our team to "be humble" or to stop the trash talking as to not draw this type of "negative" attention or to keep the outside perception of us in some kind of positive light.

I guess I understand all that, what I don't understand is why Bengals fans are choosing to push back against our own team right now when they're on the doorstep of getting to the Super Bowl for the second straight year. Who are we to tell the players how to think/act/behave/express themselves?  

And most of all, why would we care what other fan bases think of us at all? Are we trying to be buddies with everyone?  I love the brashness personally, but I'm wondering if this is a generational thing?  Are zoomers more sensitive to this kind of thing?  Personally, I'm not trying to be buddies with anyone, barely even fellow Bengals fans. Definitely not opposing fans on social media.  If 100% of them hate us, I'm cool with that.  

This mindset of worrying about our image with the media or other fans is just very weird.