03-15-2019, 03:49 PM
(03-15-2019, 03:23 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: You don't buy it? Really?
C'mon, let's try to appear to be even the slightest bit objective here.
This team has been attatched to the following stories...
-Sent a 300+ pound Tony Siragusa a coach plane ticket for his free agency visit. (He canceled by the way)
-Rents HDMI cables to it's players for training camp. This one is a little unfair. I'm sure the team really need that $237 dollars and put it to good use.
-Had their 1st round RB (Kijana Carter) buy new towels for the offensive lineman out of his own pocket, after repeated complaints about them being too small.
-Had a coin-operated pop machine in the clubhouse. (What did that bad boy generate a year? An extra $1,500?)
-Rationed Gatorade, and prevented players from grabbing one for the road. (Again, we're talking hundreds in savings.
-HAS THEIR TEAM PRACTICING OUTDOORS LIKE THIS IS MESA, AZ AND NOT CINCINNATI, AND LIKE THIS IS PEE-WEE AND NOT THE NFL!!!!
The list goes on and on. Yet you don't buy the idea that this team is viewed as cheap?
You think agents are only concerned with "big paydays" and not players? Um....what?
Don't know about HDMI cables, but the TVs rented on Hard Knocks were from school not the Bengals. Is that what you were talking about?
The Gatorade was not "rationed". In fact players were allowed to take "one for the road". They just could not carry out cartons or cases.
If I made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year I would not pitch a fit over buying my own towel.
Every organization has their team practice outdoors.
Funny how at the same time a lot of people are complaining about the "pussification" of the NFL there are others saying we should not expect to get the best players if we don't offer them the poofiest towels.
