Bengals.com announces the Virtual Hall of Fame

by Josh Kirkendall on Jan 30, 2009 3:39 PM EST in Veterans of Cincinnati

We still think that it's terrible that the Cincinnati Bengals franchise doesn't do a better job honoring their best players with a Ring of Honor, so to speak. Why isn't Anthony Munoz's portrait pained into the South Endzone, I'll never know. Why isn't Willie Anderson's big awesome face at the 50-yard line? No one listens to me. Instead, Bengals.com has announced a Virtual Hall of Fame.

Starting February 2, ending February 28, "fans can vote for 10 of 32 names that are multiple Pro Bowl players, career record-holders or Super Bowl head coaches, or five at-large selections." In April, voting resumes eliminating the ten finalists to three joining Anthony Munoz and Paul Brown in the first class of the Bengals.com Virtual Hall of Fame. It might not be the Ring of Honor, or anything like the Reds Hall of Fame, but it's something. Past Bengals players, the great ones, are unfairly given a bad stigma having played with an organization that many deem unworthy in historical discussions considering their run since the early 90s. Having no Super Bowl wins isn't helpful, but we hardly think that a great career is simply defined by one game -- or else

The one compliment I'll always give Bengals.com is that there's a plethora of information released at such a rate that a river rages while other NFL teams have websites that publish information like a trickle from creaks deep inside dark forests -- sorry, been watching Lord of the Rings again. Leading up to the 2007 season, Bengals.com ran a series that cumulated the Top 40 moments in Bengals history. I know the pulse of others, but I've said this before, it's about the information; not the inability for some to digest it.

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I must point out it appears to be Paul Brown and Munoz who are automatically in your Virtual Hall of Fame. Placing Mike Brown in might give your WDR readers an aneurism.

by math_geek on Jan 30, 2009 4:37 PM EST reply actions

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That’s a hell of an error. Good catch. We almost went critical mass on the web servers.

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by Josh Kirkendall on Jan 30, 2009 6:00 PM EST up reply actions

Finally

something to honor the players, even though its only on the internet. Why dont the Bengals have some type of Ring or something? I live near Buffalo and even the Bills have a Ring and a hall of fame. With about 25-30 players on the Ring of Honor around the inside of the stadium. They are in no different position than the Bengals. The Bills never won a superbowl, they have been to only 1 playoff game in 10 years. They did win some AFL championships in the 60’s though. It would just be nice to see the Bengals honor the players that spent so much of their lives making money for the Brown family. I think it would be more attractive to me as a player to go somewhere with a little history. The Bengals have history, but most people only remember 2 superbowl losses or 15 years of being terrible for the most part

by Joe Goodberry on Jan 30, 2009 6:43 PM EST reply actions