Boycotting games

by KenAnderson'sTurfToe on Oct 15, 2009 8:48 AM EDT Comment 18 comments

The people of WDR think that boycotting games is the answer to getting Mike Brown to make changes. While I support the revolution,I do not think this is the answer.

IMO, boycotting the games only hurts the fans and the team. Not MB. What does he care if he loses a little revenue? He doesn't!

Fan money is only icing on the cake to MB. If you take away the icing,you still have the cake!

If you want to hit MB in the wallet and send a clear and resolute message that change must come,start with the sponsors!

If enough people refuse to spend their money with the businesses that sponsor Bengals football, they will wonder what's going on.If we as a fan base let them know that we will choose to spend our elsewhere until they pressure MB into making positive change,they will do so.

How do we convey the message?
1- The money spent on Project Mayhem should be directed to letting corporate sponsors know our intentions and why.
2-Circulate online petitions to their sponsors stating the same intentions.
3- Spread the word to everyone we know what our goals are and ask them to join the cause.
4-Stop spending our money with said sponsors,until they force change on MB.

MB will never listen to the average fan. He will however listen and react to the corporate sponsors whom provide the real money to keep his business afloat. Think about it people. Real change can only come from within.

Who Dey and Viva la Revolucion!

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KATT, Huh? Interesting handle.

I 100% agree with you … WDR’s approach is wrong. It’s beyond just wrong, it’s silly, meaningless, accomplishes nothing … and is a total waste of the oxygen required to think up and type the stuff on that site. MB isn’t a publicly elected official who can be voted out. He’s here, or his offspring are here forever. So, to all the anti-Brown wasted Web sites and billboarders out there, wise up … it won’t work. Let me repeat … it won’t work. Either accept the Bengals as is, or stop being a fan. There is no middle ground, because there’s no changing MB, ever. It is as it is … and is what it’ll always be.

by Timzilla on Oct 15, 2009 10:04 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

lol WDR is the biggest joke on earth...

i feel so sorry for those people. they are the biggest bandwagon fans i’ve ever seen and deep down, they are all rooting for the mike brown-owned bengals this year whether they admit it or not. what a load of shit.

by GrooveLeg on Oct 15, 2009 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

The handle is sort of an obscure reference to his injury during the first super bowl run. It was a big deal at the time,because no on had even heard of turf toe. As far as WDR goes,I give up on them. The last thing I need is a bunch of out of town bitter Bengals fans telling me not to buy tickets. As if I could even afford them any way.

Most of these bozos live outside the viewing area, including the founder. While we all huddle around our radios because of a non sellout, they can watch the game on the NFL package or go to some high priced sports bar with all their popped collar buddies.

Do agree with them on one principle: if we want to see continued success from our favorite team,MB has to hire a GM and get a bigger scouting department. Not buying tickets is not the answer though. MB is not going to miss the profits from not selling a few thousand tickets or a few hundred Carson Palmer jerseys.

I guess that’s why I chose this forum to lay out a more effective plan. Really though it’s just all BS. I think I’m just going to enjoy the here and now, and not worry about next season. Even bad football is better than no football.

Who-Dey!

by KenAnderson'sTurfToe on Oct 15, 2009 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

who dey and welcome aboard!

WDR has a lot of proud, stubborn, arrogant loudmouths running shit up a flagpole and i have scoffed at their efforts from day one. yes, it would be fantastic for the bengals to have either a GM or a bill parcells, but you’re high off your ass if you think mike brown is going to take his cues from a website or billboard. (not you of course, they WDR bozos lol)

by GrooveLeg on Oct 15, 2009 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

the assinine comments and small amount of information you have about WDR is amazing!

if your going to rip on somebody for something at least make sure you know what the hell you are talking about.

by Diesel2405 on Oct 15, 2009 5:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

you mean

like how most of the commenters talk about how they root for the bengals to lose?

by brandone on Oct 15, 2009 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can you be more specific ...

… what exactly is the asinine comment, and what’s the “know what the hell you are talking about” part?

by Timzilla on Oct 15, 2009 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

WDR isn't that hard to figure out...

pretend to dislike your favorite team and waste your hard earned money on something that will literally yield zero results.

i should set up a website called “give me your money and instead of flushing it down the toilet i will donate it to foundations that might actually use it”. or something along those lines. it would be a hell of a lot more useful than what WDR does with the donations.

by GrooveLeg on Oct 16, 2009 10:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

So WDR takes donations ...

… (people’’s hard-earned money) and spends on those useless Anti-Brown campaigns I see?

by Timzilla on Oct 16, 2009 10:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You Know

The whole premise of WDR was actually pretty cool to me. Yeah, I know they have ZERO effect,but some of the articles are funny. The idea of Operation Mayhem is pretty clever as well. I actually look forward to the next stunt they pull. If people want to spend their time and money on that stuff, it’s all good. Who am I to judge?

What bothers me the most is the seriousness with which they view themselves. The moment someone post a different or opposing viewpoint, they immediately get slammed for it. They are ridiculed as “stupid” or “sheep” or even worse.

I’m still going to spend time in the website,laugh at the articles,express my views. I refuse to be silenced because some perpetually angry fan, living in his mom’s basement is lurking behind his keyboard waiting to slam everyone that doesn’t think like he does……

And I’m sure as hell going to enjoy this season for all it’s worth! Now if you will all excuse me, I’m going to go out and enable MB some more. I’m buying myself a Rey Maualuga jersey. WHO FREAKIN DEY!!!!!

by KenAnderson'sTurfToe on Oct 16, 2009 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You know it's funny....

I made some asinine comments on the WDR website,felt guilty over it and apologized. Some know it all immediately ripped me up one side and down the other because apparently, I had no clue how the business of football works. Never mind the fact that I am 4 credits short of a business degree,and have a thorough knowledge of how big business works.

I guess that’s how it works over there. No one is allowed to have their own opinion on how to take down MB. It’s either their way or the highway. I followed their website from the get go,and supported their cause. Talked them up to any one that would listen.

From now on if I go in there,it will be with the intent to stir shit up. Encourage people to think for themselves. IMO, they are no better than MB………

by KenAnderson'sTurfToe on Oct 15, 2009 9:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

As a free speech vehicle ...

I’m all for sites like WDR. But if WDR expects to actually get a result, it’s fooling itself and its web community. MB will never never never never never change, ever, no matter what (did you hear Lewis speaking to Andre Smith’s agent about MB on the phone on Hard Knocks?). All the Web sites, billboards, airplane ads, flyers and boycotts in the world won’t change MB. He hasn’t changed in 20 years of running the club, so why would a Web site change him? So again, we either accept the Bengals as is, or stop being fans. There is no middle ground. With this team, it is what it’ll always be. As fans we’d be more productive watching water boil, paint dry and grass grow than venturing down the WDR trail, which leads no where.

by Timzilla on Oct 16, 2009 4:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I learned that lesson.

The hard way :(

by KenAnderson'sTurfToe on Oct 16, 2009 7:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The best thing that could happen

Would be the bengals to sell out all their games, advance to at least the second round of the playoffs and then MB hires a gm. Just so they can’t claim any credit for it.

by brandone on Oct 16, 2009 12:07 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

Knowing them

They will find a way. The same way they will find a way to take credit for people not buying tickets if this game doesn’t sell out. Of course everybody else knows that people just choose to spend their money on stupid stuff, like their house payment,electric bill,food, etc.

by KenAnderson'sTurfToe on Oct 16, 2009 1:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I once followed WDR as well

but I think they’ve taken the idea too far even to the point to write conspiracy theories against Mike Brown. I dislike MB as much as any Bengals fan, but the writing’s on the wall. The Brown family will run this team long after we’re dead.

by Danimal, Destroyer of Worlds on Oct 17, 2009 10:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Maybe not as long as you think....

I read an article last year that quoted Troy and Katie girl as not wanting to run the team without a GM. She said that she knows nothing about the game (apple doesn’t fall from the tree) and would rather leave that part of the game to others. MB is getting long in the tooth y’know :)

by KenAnderson'sTurfToe on Oct 18, 2009 2:34 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs