10-23-2018, 07:55 AM
I'm really pessimistic right now about the Bengals and the league in general. I know most of you are not quite in agreement with me about the business end of this whole show, but it is a show put on to entertain the most people with supposedly the best product and you just witnessed the product the Bengals put out there for all to see. I'm not impressed to put it mildly.
Call it conspiracy theory mongering if you want. That's entirely up to you, but even in well scripted movies even nice people, actors play the parts of bad people . Perfectly law abiding citizens play the parts of serial killers and rapists and child molesters. So what makes it such a stretch to have a team play the part of the hapless losers after looking like the comeback kids for much of the early part of the season and it happens year after year after year. This team was the perfect setup to play the role of the up and comers to get blown out by the 'super offense' and look unable to stop the likes of me, a 59 year old man with bad legs and a 45 year smoking habit. It was more predictable than the rising sun and yet I still fell for it again myself.
Now that legalized sports gambling is here to stay it's only going to get worse as time goes on and the Bengals are far from the only bit players in suckering us into this game of hope and inevitable disappointment year after year after year.
I'd love to say that I'm never going to bite again and that I'm done watching football forever, but I too like to be entertained. The problem is that this just doesn't entertain me nearly as much as I had expected it would . It's just more of the same bad script over and over, year after year.
This team will win a few more games before it's all said and done, but until enough fans quit buying into this scripted nonsense they're never going to quit playing the role of the perennial disappointing team.
Call it conspiracy theory mongering if you want. That's entirely up to you, but even in well scripted movies even nice people, actors play the parts of bad people . Perfectly law abiding citizens play the parts of serial killers and rapists and child molesters. So what makes it such a stretch to have a team play the part of the hapless losers after looking like the comeback kids for much of the early part of the season and it happens year after year after year. This team was the perfect setup to play the role of the up and comers to get blown out by the 'super offense' and look unable to stop the likes of me, a 59 year old man with bad legs and a 45 year smoking habit. It was more predictable than the rising sun and yet I still fell for it again myself.
Now that legalized sports gambling is here to stay it's only going to get worse as time goes on and the Bengals are far from the only bit players in suckering us into this game of hope and inevitable disappointment year after year after year.
I'd love to say that I'm never going to bite again and that I'm done watching football forever, but I too like to be entertained. The problem is that this just doesn't entertain me nearly as much as I had expected it would . It's just more of the same bad script over and over, year after year.
This team will win a few more games before it's all said and done, but until enough fans quit buying into this scripted nonsense they're never going to quit playing the role of the perennial disappointing team.
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.
