Why you do?

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(Yesterday, 01:11 PM)jason Wrote: I think the Brown family cares about winning. They just care about winning on their terms. The Reds are totally content to take your money and farm players for New York, Boston, LA, and the teams that can afford to compete.

And take Blue Jays Castoffs

[Hammerstripes]

The ONLY reason I became a fan was because of the uniforms. When they switched to the striped helmets I became a fan (9 years old).

I thought they were the coolest thing in the world and I'm too loyal to ever switch.

[sandwedge]

(Yesterday, 08:36 AM)jason Wrote: I like ugly uniforms and antiquated ownership and management structures...

I actually was a Los Angeles Raiders fan (Jim Plunkett, Marcus Allen, Lester Hayes era) as a kid, but they weren't as easy to see on TV in the Dayton area as the Bengals. My dad was a Bengals fan and took me to at least one or two games a year at Riverfront. That environment was insane (before the NFL became the bougie corporate environment it is now) for a small child. By the time the 88 super bowl season rolled around I really started following the team, and I'd hear all the Gary Burbank shit on 700. I started drifting to the local team. I lost interest when Wyche and the boys all left. I regained it in college just to be a heel for my college roommates who were all Browns fans... Then the Browns moved and the Bengals were on every week in Columbus. They sucked, but Blake and Pickens were exciting. Rooting for a loser became my passion. Then it started to "pay off" with Carson and Chad... Decades later; here we are.

You have to be the smartest person in Morton with a college degree!