Hey, it’s easy click-bat. Just imagine the fun Thursday for players and coaches as the Falcons opened camp six months after blowing a 28-3 third-quarter lead in the Super Bowl!
But even with this template in mind, the absurdity of positing that Cincinnati is the league’s pit is so annoying as to be astonishing.
Consider this crazy headline: “NFL camp openings: Bengals bad boys fight for jobs.”
That mess appeared Thursday evening atop a post by Lindy’s that intimated that Cincinnati’s professional football team is populated by thugs.
Cincinnati fans have opinions.
The Cowboys have had 5 this off season but Bob Costas runs his pie hole about @Bengals pic.twitter.com/nJGLXH63LQ
— Andre T. Sparks (@Kingpin_Dre7K) July 25, 2017
Sifting through this mess is like trying to figure out what the president is Tweeting about.
Lindy’s, a magazine that has made its bones covering college football and the NFL (with seriously detailed preseason capsules about teams and leagues) went for simple, low-hanging fruit in search of clicks.
The bones of their project were built upon the travails of Adam “Pacman” Jones and Cincinnati having drafted running back Joe Mixon after his problems at Oklahoma University.
Yet looking back beyond the past few months, the volume of the Bengals’ recent track record for players who’ve run afoul of the law is modest. It just so happens that news of such miscues happens to be fresh.
Only 4 teams have had fewer suspensions than Bengals since 2012. But....they are dirty. Got it. https://t.co/ciTt9euMPr
— Kevin Albanese (@Kmalbanese) July 24, 2017
Jeez, this is the way these things work, but it’s disconcerting to think that people with pens, ink, and keyboards can push out to the public such scatter-brained thoughts so as to cast dark shadows.
Heck, even famed sports broadcaster Bob Costas of NBC fame is walking back derogatory comments about the Bengals just about now.
Brown, Lewis reject Bob Costas bash on Bengals https://t.co/H9IiqSiJ74 pic.twitter.com/BDUfEJAmVQ
— Cincinnati Today (@TodayCincinnati) July 25, 2017
More opinions from the local support base:
Bob Costas owes the #Bengals an apology. What he said was an absolute lie, and unfair and insulting to the players and coaches.
— Ava Wickham (@AvaWickham) July 25, 2017
Bob Costas https://t.co/9DpGgWE8bR hey bob what about the steelers drug problems why bob why the bengals
— Eddie troxell (@EddieTroxell) July 26, 2017
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