Monday, December 11, 2017

By Any Measure


Last week, Bears fans had to face up to the reality of how bad their team is after it lost to the San Francisco 49ers.  Today, Cincinnati Bengals fans have to face up to the reality of how bad their team in the wake of yesterday’s 33-7 loss to the Bears.

It’s nice to see the Bears’ coaching staff finally decided to let quarterback Mitch Trubisky be Mitch Trubisky and allow him to throw 32 times, some of them even downfield, and it’s nice to see a team with a coach worse than John Fox.  (Maybe Fox and Marvin Lewis will switch jobs this offseason.  You never know.)  What really caught my eye were the no-shows at Paul Brown Stadium, some 13,000 at kickoff and just about the entire stadium midway through the fourth quarter save for family, friends and travelling Bears fans.

Of course, it’s a publicly funded stadium, so Bengals ownership is protected against the full brunt of a fan revolt.  Before taking sides, I need to know whose idea it was to have cheerleaders and name them the Ben-Gals (get it?), no less.  If that’s popular with the fans, then they get what they deserve.

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