Sweet, sweet hatred – I found you at last.
For as long as I have been torturing myself (and you) with these articles, I had yet to find concrete examples of undiluted anger. Sure, there were a few armchair patriots who got their say in during the early days of the anthem protests, but that wasn’t the kind I was looking for. No, I wanted the rage that only surfaces when the team you support finds another aggravating way to lose, and to a hated division rival, in an embarrassing fashion for the whole world to see.
Well, I got that shit in spades following the Monday Night game between the Steelers & Bengals.
Almost seconds after the game ended, and the Bengals social media team (reluctantly) posted the final score
the explosions commenced.
They kept coming,
and coming,
and coming.
It was a bukkake of hate.
Yet, despite the dirty play bringing out haters on all sides – on Bengals Twitter,
Bengals Facebook,
and Bengals fan Facebook pages,
there was one specific target for the ire:
Marvin Lewis has completely wasted the prime years of AJ Green, Dunlap, Geno, Burfict, Dalton, Gio just like he did with Ocho, Whitworth, Palmer, Joseph & Hall.
— Joe (@JoeskiBroski) December 5, 2017
Marv Lewis.
Now, I realize he’s a lightning rod for most Bengals fans, since he’s been around 14 years and acquired 0 playoff wins, but the Steelers game seems to have galvanized frustrated fans, as it spawned three separate hashtags
(this person wants to be Fozz; is not Fozz.)
and a hastily conceived Twitter page.
However, it’s a lot of noise that masks one irrevocable fact,
So, all that’s left to look at is the confused,
Is Toyota more powerful than Mike Brown?
the bizarre,
and the “enemy of my enemy” crowd,
before getting ready for the next game, Sunday afternoon at home against the Bears.
NEWS- Bengals make the following roster moves:
-Place WR John Ross on IR (shoulder)
-Promote DT Josh Tupou from practice squad
-Sign LB Carl Bradford to practice squad#Bengals50
— Cincinnati Bengals (@Bengals) December 6, 2017
The fans have fallen into one of three categories –
the resigned,
the conspiratorially inclined,
and the frustrated.
Although, there might be a few more folks shopping at the store of SBNation’s “Cincy Jungle“ page this week,
মহিলা ভদ্র, your 2017 5-7 Cincinnati Bengals. Based on what the Cincy Jungle interpreted ESPN’s in-game comments to mean, these people might finally get their wish.
This has been building since the 2012 playoff loss. I think Brown will let Lewis go. Brown’s a shitty GM but he’s a great businessman and you don’t make money when the paying customers go from angry to apathetic to FC Cincinnati fans.
I’m disappointed in the lack of good, old-fashioned Rust Belt racism against Marvin Lewis.
That’s the one thing I didn’t find. Either Twitter has improved their filters or those type of folks don’t inhabit official team feeds anymore.
Maybe they quit because of #kneeling.
Maybe, but Twitter is definitely still a quagmire of racist taeks
Oh, this entire piece was great. Well done, champagne Rick
Speaking of quality hate, it’s nice to see that sometimes Big Daddy Balls has still got it:
he’s still a good read ( to me) after all these years.
This was delightful.
Which one is Redshirt?
This guy?
Can’t they all be Redshirt?
We are all Redshirt.
I’m don’t know how to tweet. It’s done great things for my psyche.
I love wandering down the hot taek rabbit hole after losses of any professional team.
So, is this মহিলা ভদ্র, supposed to be ladies and gentleman, or “ladyboy”.
Stephen Rea wants to know.
It’s “ladies and gentlemen “ in Bengali.
META!!
ah believe that hatred is our future…
This is straight quality. Good for the Bengals.
That is some solid hate right there.
thats some awesome hate
cannot imagine having to read through any of those sites
It is the best. I start with reddit, then sbnation, then facebook, then twitter. It is joyous!