09-12-2017, 07:48 PM
(09-12-2017, 06:40 PM)Murdock2420 Wrote: It's the Marvin Lewis effect. I still love the team and still follow them but I have no faith they'll have any success with Marvin as the coach. It's been too long and it's time for a change.
I would guess people are just tired of the same old same old, *clap clap* we gotta do better stuff. Why spend $10 a beer and be uncomfortable when I can sit at home, drinking a cold 6...or 12 pack on the couch and when Marvin's boys lay an egg, I can flip over to redzone and watch other action.
Win, and not regular season, win a postseason game, give the fans reason to believe that the organization is serious about success and the fans will come back.
Yep, but I might call it the Marvin/Mike effect. The slow, steady erosion of our fan base, and by extension, those willing to shell out the moolah to see this team in person. Yeah, there's the 35-40,000 diehards who'll be there until the last dog dies. But the excitement and buzz around the team, that drives the casual fan and the last-minute ticket purchaser, that seems to be gone. By the time of the Pitt game we might be back to early 2000s PBS Bengal/Steeler fan ratios, where it sometimes felt like an away game.
