02-01-2022, 11:46 PM
(02-01-2022, 11:38 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I've seen a lot of SB ads that don't even show the Bengals. Just a Rams player. I think the media in general hates that we made it. Too small market.
Mike Greenberg was roasting the Chiefs for letting "the Cincinnati Bengals" (with tone) come back on them.
Rich Eisen said "we're opening the show with the Bengals for the first time ever". Went on to say they never talk Bengals "and why would we?". Made it sound like the Bengals have always been a bottom 3 franchise...despite 8 playoff appearances and 5 division titles since 2005.
We haven't been a SB contender since the 80s. I get that. But is this how the Falcons were treated a few years ago? The Bucs in 2002? The Chiefs went 20ish years without a playoff win before Andy Reid.
We've been better than quite a few teams...and several recent SB teams were terrible prior to suddenly not being terrible. Yet I don't remember this much focus on the negative with any of those teams.
It's gotta be a market/ratings thing.
Rams might be a big market team but let’s be real here - barely anyone gives a shit about that team out there. The NFCCG was more like a home game for the 9ers, and Whit’s wife literally got into an online spat trying to convince people in LA not to sell their tickets.