Dude needs some undergarment support in the chestal region.
Dude needs some undergarment support in the chestal region.
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I know this is a stretch but, does anyone remember the yearly training camp saga of Willie Anderson and his weight. The Bengals were always toying with the idea of moving him to left tackle, and he never reported to camp "in shape". Smith doesn't have that kind of cred, but lets see what he looks like in a few weeks.
I am not overly concerned.
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The Bengals weren't just bad, they were an embarrassment. The county had just built the Bengals a new stadium and they were getting sued but and I would also imagine the NFL was a co-defendant. When Marvin was hired things changed in this organization and I don't think it was just Marvin. I think it came from a little pushing from the NFL as well as Katie Blackburn.
Starting in 2005 (I believe) the Bengals have sold out the season in season tickets. IIRC they had a season ticket waiting list starting in the 2007 season. So yea for a couple of years in a row Mike had all ticket revenue in his pocket before training camp began. Its a pretty big incentive to get the stadium sold out.
What changed when Marvin came in was the fact that there was a coach with enough credibility to challenge Mike Brown. Before, when Mike Brown would dictate that he wanted the team to be run a certain way, what were Dave Shula, Bruce Coslet, or Dick LeBeau going to do? They owed their coaching lives to Brown. Even LeBeau who obviously had credibility as a defensive coordinator, was never considered to be a head coach anywhere else.
When Marvin came in, he was able to demand that he would have say in how the team was made up, how the camp was run, and how the team would act. Also, after 10 years of perpetual awfulness, I think Mike Brown saw a better solution in that he wouldn't have to answer questions after every loss or losing season. He was able to say "Okay, it's all on you."
The irony in my mind is that Brown had probably wanted to do that for 10 years, but Shula, Coslet, and LeBeau were not strong enough to actually pull it off.
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You just confused me.
They would sell out the stadium with season tickets if they could. IIRC they did that in 2006, 2007, and 2008. After the disastrous 2008 season the Bengals lost a lot of their season ticket holders and had trouble selling out games last season.
As for the waiting list my wife put her name on it along with a $100 deposit. You got the chance to decline for 3 years before you lost your deposit. So in essence there were people on the waiting list while games went down to the deadline for a sell out.
As I remember, the Colts did this when they first moved to Indy. I think the Hoosier Dome was around 55K overall for football. The Colts apparantly sold 48K or so season tickets and kept a waiting list. They then sold single game tickets and other ticket packages.
A team does this to keep demand for the product up. If you have 52K season tickets and no one on the waiting list, when you have a bad season or two, there's no fear to drop your season tickets. You can always pick them up when the team gets good again.
If you have a 4,000 person waiting list, the 48,000 people may be willing to forgive a bad season or two because they don't want to lose their tickets when the team gets good.
Plus it allows you to bring in additional fans at a lower committment level and is good PR. The Colts spun it as not wanting to forget about the fans who couldn't afford a full season ticket package.
A quick question that's probably stupid to anyone who truly knows football.
I read where Dave Rayner was something like 5 of 8 in practice today. What the hell is he doing over the course of 3 hours if he only had 8 attempts? I know they have to work on kickoffs and other things, and there are obviously drills they go through, but when I go to a game, I'd guess a kicker takes twice as many attempts just warming up before the game and at half time.
Are there teams that don't? I was under the impression that PSLs were standard in the NFL. I know the Browns do it. The Bengals didn't invent them. They merely followed the trend. In fact, I suspect teams that don't probably catch hell from other owners for not "maximizing revenue streams." I would never buy NFL season tickets because I'd prefer to buy them for a sport I could take my kids to.
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