04-07-2019, 01:30 PM
(04-07-2019, 01:03 PM)NKURyan Wrote: The Bengals could've signed any free agent that was out there and people weren't going to buy tickets. The Bengals could draft any player in this draft in people won't by tickets. They'd be smart to realize that. People will still watch on TV, though. Win and they'll come back, but until they do nothing will matter.
I seem to recall the first three home games of the year being sell outs last year, and I seem to recall there being a ton of Bengals fan in Indy as well. It wasn't Marvin that kept them away, it was the losing.
You misremember, sir. I was at the home opener. Club level was a ghost town as it has been for a long time. It was the most empty I've ever seen for a prime time game, and I've been to many. I was fairly surprised at the number of empty seats that night.
The team reports a lot of sellouts. They seem to use this term very loosely when you see these claims and look at the empty seats. This has been the case ever since the league stopped the blackout policy for non-home sellouts.
Indy was opening day so you're going to have a bit of excitement, particularly when you're playing a team 2 hours away. Not really an indicator of anything.
You're right to say that they won't come back regardless if they don't win. I'm gonna go ahead and let you in on a secret: They're going to suck again. The o-line and linebacking corps were demonstrably awful. Like among the worst in the league awful. Still no effort at all to change this. If they put the same effort into finding better players as they do into creating propaganda to make guys like Hart and Miller seem like long-term answers, maybe they'd be in a better place.
