Hope Clicks Eternal – The Cincinnati Bengals

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.

— Fire Everyone (@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.