Key Highlights
- I was born in Cincinnati, grew up in the concrete bowl of Riverfront Stadium, and spent my childhood cheering for those pre-stripe teams of the 1970s.
- That loyalty has lasted more than 50 years.
- But after decades of watching Mike Brown and his family mismanage this franchise into familiar irrelevance, I've reached a conclusion I never thought I would: It's time to bury my Bengals fandom for good. Between the "Lost Decade" of the 1990s and the current state of Bengals football, I will no longer support an organization that has never fully committed to winning.
- The Bengals have been a rudderless ship, a Titanic disaster, since Brown took over the franchise after his legendary father, Paul Brown, passed away in 1991.
- Need proof?
