02-01-2022, 09:09 PM
I quit letting disappointment get to me and I was fully prepared and still am to accept that the league fixes everything for profit. I can live with it because the NFL is and has been in bed with the big media companies so it is a QB driven, personality driven league.. It IS most definitely a FOR PROFIT enterprise no matter what anyone says or thinks. They went to court and won arguing that the NFL is an entertainment business just like Sony Pictures, Fox Noise, Universal and the others.. They are completely free to set whatever story lines they see fit for their share holders..
What gives me hope with the Bengals is Joe Burrow.. The guy walked straight out of NFL central casting directly to the LSU stage then onto the NFL stage. There is nothing more compelling about Mathew Stafford or any of the Rams players moreso than the Joe Burrow story, the small town kid makes good for the local team who had been on the losing end for the past 30+ years.. Being how I honestly believe the league has manipulated games through refs and even perhaps certain players to sell the most compelling story lines I just can't imagine LA being the better story here and more profitable for the league in the long run.. The NFL just isn't going to allow LA to win this game and if they do someone better lose their job..
See, I've felt this way for many years and we've just never quite had the right story line. Andy was never quite compelling nor was Palmer and Boomer nor Kenny could overcome the mystique of the SF QBs Young or Montana, but the Joe Burrow story along with Chase and the kid wonder McPherson.. Mahomes had nothing on Joe and our story and neither does Stafford and the Rams.. We ARE going to celebrate winning the SuperBowl for once.. Use logic here folks.. Just because I'm a Bengals fan doesn't mean I don't buy into game fixing.. It's a multi billion dollar enterprise, each franchise being worth more than a billion each. Does anyone in their right minds think these BILLIONAIRES are going to leave this game up to chance and Matt Stafford? Not on the very best days of all our lives combined!
What gives me hope with the Bengals is Joe Burrow.. The guy walked straight out of NFL central casting directly to the LSU stage then onto the NFL stage. There is nothing more compelling about Mathew Stafford or any of the Rams players moreso than the Joe Burrow story, the small town kid makes good for the local team who had been on the losing end for the past 30+ years.. Being how I honestly believe the league has manipulated games through refs and even perhaps certain players to sell the most compelling story lines I just can't imagine LA being the better story here and more profitable for the league in the long run.. The NFL just isn't going to allow LA to win this game and if they do someone better lose their job..
See, I've felt this way for many years and we've just never quite had the right story line. Andy was never quite compelling nor was Palmer and Boomer nor Kenny could overcome the mystique of the SF QBs Young or Montana, but the Joe Burrow story along with Chase and the kid wonder McPherson.. Mahomes had nothing on Joe and our story and neither does Stafford and the Rams.. We ARE going to celebrate winning the SuperBowl for once.. Use logic here folks.. Just because I'm a Bengals fan doesn't mean I don't buy into game fixing.. It's a multi billion dollar enterprise, each franchise being worth more than a billion each. Does anyone in their right minds think these BILLIONAIRES are going to leave this game up to chance and Matt Stafford? Not on the very best days of all our lives combined!
In the immortal words of my old man, "Wait'll you get to be my age!"
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse, but the one comfort we have is Cincinnati sounds worse. ~Oliver Wendal Holmes Sr.
