What can Brown do for you?

Graduation has come and gone for me and while I search for a job that fits my career goals in a shattered economy all I can do is make comparisons between the state of America and the free fall of the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Financial crisis has made consumers afraid to consume and the 1-8-1 Bengals and their pathetic product have caused fans to reverse all optimism. While Capitol Hill might be able to bail us out of this fiscal nightmare by investing the the lousy financial institutions that caused this mess, I doubt Mike Brown will receive such treatment from the governing czar of the NFL, Roger Goodell.

It has gotten to such a point where fans have started a website and collection to pay for Billboards around the city of Cincinnati calling for a front office makeover of the Bengals. See whodeyrevolution.com.

Are these fans justified? Absolutely. Perhaps the only other franchise in more peril and stripped in more losing tradition is the Detroit Lions, and they protest their team annually.

Again the Bengals have a similarity to the political climate where the leadership has obtained the lowest approval rating in its history and changes are being sought. Sadly for Bengals fans the election of an African American President with a muslim name was more likely than anything being changed in the front office of the Bengals. Katy and Troy Blackburn will continue to run the show and Pete Brown will trudge along as the head of the smallest scouting department in all of football and Mike Brown will drag himself out of his cavern once a year to address the media.

The fans of Cincinnati will have to force change by financial responsibility and keep their credit card debt down by refraining from seat licensing bids and season tickets. If the product stinks, don’t buy it. I’d be happy just to make Mike Brown have one less night of caviar hors d’oeuvres. Even the smallest hint of perspective to the most oblivious man in professional sports should be considered a victory. Oh the woes of being a Bengals fan.