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Originally Posted by kccrow
It makes it tough to actually talk smack when a fanbase has gone through the same shit we have. I'm more inclined to rub them a little given it's a regular-season game than if it were a playoff game. Two teams I'd rather not face in the playoffs are the Bengals and the Bills because both are so inconsistent. If they are firing on all cylinders, they can be supremely dangerous but if not they can be a cakewalk. You don't want to hit that chance they play well.
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Yeah, they're a hard team to hate and have a long-suffering fanbase with many who have loyally watched them through defeats and division rivals reaching the top of the mountain in that time (can you imagine if Atwater blew up Gannon's knee after he threw a touchdown to go up 7-0 before Grbac blew it against Elway -- and then the Broncos winning the SB after? Yeesh). Even they're forum is funny, there's a thread where people are like "I feel more hopeful with Burrow than I ever did with Dalton (rightfully) and I think I'm as hopeful as I was with Boomer" and replies are like "woah, settle down there."
Definitely would prefer to watch the Bengans out of anyone else in the AFC if we went down. Imagine a Titans-Patriots rematch in the AFCCG.
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Originally Posted by HC_Chief
Yeah, but how about them HS football teams, huh? Only TX and FL got anything on them. They've got that going for them, which is nice.
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I mean, it makes sense. With the products their professional sports teams have put out since the 90's I'd probably have taken up Arena League fandom right now from sheer desperation. I wasn't even alive the last time the Bengals won a playoff game.
All this board smack is reminding me of when Hog Farmer would go on opposing boards but instead of smack talk would host Q&A's on the ins and outs of artificial insemination and just bewilder opposing fanbases (if I remember right those were in the Pioli years where we didn't have a lot to smack talk about anyway).