IN THIS TIME of perpetual Cincinnati Bengals incompetence and futility, with zero playoff wins in the eighteen seasons since the WhoDeyRevolution Godfather, Paul Brown, passed away in 1991 and handed the team to his fortunate son, the Despot, Mike Brown;
Introduction
WE, the members of the Who Dey Revolution, in our fervent dedication to the Cincinnati Bengals and fanatical desire to transform our hometown team into perpetual Super Bowl contenders, call for a popular revolution of fans to demand comprehensive reform to the managerial decisions and approach of Cincinnati Bengals ownership, management, staff and players, and hereby call for the adoption of the following Who Dey Revolution Manifesto:
Manifesto Demands
THAT the Mike Brown, Katie Blackburn, Marvin Lewis, along with every other member of the Bengals management, staff and personnel, state publicly to all Bengals fans, “I will do everything in my power to help the Cincinnati Bengals win a Super Bowl;”
THAT Mike Brown will hire a general manager, drastically expand the scouting department and relinquish all control of player personnel;
THAT all training, rehabilitation and medical facilities are considered best-in-class compared to other NFL teams;
THAT the management fill the team only with players who fit the system, both mentally and physically, and are not reluctant to makes changes to player personnel when needed, regardless of cost or loyalty concerns;
THAT offensive and defensive line depth is considered the top priority for all player personnel decisions;
THAT all decisions made by ownership, management, staff and players, both on and off the field, are judged only by this criterion: “Does this help the Cincinnati Bengals win a Super Bowl?”
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18 - Years since the Bengals have won a playoff game
0 - Total number of playoff wins in Mike Brown's tenure as owner
.349 - Bengals regular season winning percentage since Mike Brown took over as owner (101-187-1 in 18 seasons)
19-34-1 - Record since 2005 playoff game vs Steelers
6 - Seasons the Bengals have lost their first six games since 1991. No other team has more than two.
0 - Teams North of Cincinnati without an indoor practice facility
10 - Players arrested in a 14 month span from 2005-2006
32 - Mike Brown's ranking, out of 32, of the "Best Owners in the NFL" by Michael Silver of Sports Illustrated in 2007
458,000,000 - Amount, in dollars, that Hamilton County Taxpayers paid to build PBS
2032 - Year that Hamilton County will have finally paid off its debt on the stadium deal
3 - Total number of non-clerical employees employed in the Bengals scouting department, lowest in the league
747,000,000 - Amount, in dollars, paid in free agency by the Bengals from 1994 - 2005, second worst of all 28 teams in existence for the duration, behind only Arizona
118 – Ranking, out of 118 professional teams, of the “Worst Franchises” in professional sports, as ranked by ESPN the Magazine in 2003.
97 – Ranking, out of 98 general managers in all four major sports with three or more years of experience, of Mike Brown’s performance as a GM, as ranked by Forbes in 2007.
Mike Brown will only change his ways if fans demand it. I am proud to be a member of the Who Dey Revolution.
Posted by: Andrew Simon | April 11, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Someday, we will hire a director of pro personnel who has more experience than working in the GCL
Posted by: Luke Blocher | April 11, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Viva la Revolution
Posted by: Willie Gaynor | April 11, 2008 at 02:33 PM
I too am proud to be a member of the Who Dey Revolution.
Posted by: Winn Parry | April 11, 2008 at 03:19 PM
Who Dey Dammit.
Posted by: Todd Lippincott | April 11, 2008 at 03:42 PM
It's a revolution, bitches.
Posted by: Steven Mayne | April 11, 2008 at 07:53 PM
Join the revolution...all the cool kids are doing it!
Posted by: Josh Hart | April 16, 2008 at 02:24 PM
I have finally found a revolution I am down for. Oh how I long for the days of 1988!!! Viva Revolution!!!
Posted by: Matt Combs | April 16, 2008 at 04:25 PM
Fans must find a way to get through to the Brown family!!!
Posted by: Michael Meuche | April 16, 2008 at 07:32 PM
mark my words...carson will be on a best damn show or somethin similar in 20 years at #1 as the 'most talented qb to have his career wasted' by being with this franchise...please carson leave this franchise and try to forget it ever happened...and ill leave with you
Posted by: rob duncan | April 17, 2008 at 03:40 AM
Mike Brown - you are a jerk and I don't like you.
Bengals - I likey, but suffer for it!
May the Revolution liberate me!
Posted by: Joel Domoe | April 17, 2008 at 11:27 AM
It's time to get the old guard out, and I don't mean replacing Brown with his daughter. No, we need a General Manger/Director of Football Operations who can successfully run a team, not a Mom & Pop five and dime.
Posted by: george | April 17, 2008 at 01:48 PM
The Beatles put it best in their song aptly named "Revolution":
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can.
Do what we can, and revolt...
Posted by: Michael Rabiner | April 17, 2008 at 03:25 PM
Long live the revolution!!!
Posted by: Matthew | April 17, 2008 at 09:19 PM
It's not like I have a choice of which NFL team to root for. I was born in the 513 and I will die in the 513.
Viva La Revolution and Who Dey!
Posted by: John A. Schizzle | April 19, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Mike Brown is cheap and it is reflected in the way he runs this team with poor management and poor trainers. Our only hope for a Super Bowl is to eliminate this and get someone in there who actually cares about winning vs. putting extra money in his already fat pockets.
Posted by: Erin Schrantz | April 21, 2008 at 07:26 AM
Trade Chad for a late 1st. round pick and select two defensive players in the 1st. round and an offensive lineman in the second round. Pick a WR in the 3rd. round
Please Mike, Marvin and Katie do the right thing and unload Chad.
rick distasi
Posted by: Rick Distasi | April 21, 2008 at 09:23 AM
Lets do this
Posted by: Eric Miller | April 21, 2008 at 11:36 AM
Thurman reinstated by NFL! Get your # 51's back out. He better be eating ceramic tile and rusted rebar for breakfast because he'll have a long season, if he ends up in the rotation, swallowing fullbacks instead of beers!
Posted by: Beau Parry | April 21, 2008 at 05:58 PM
Odell is back and pissed! This is the first good news of the off season.
Let's ride this wave of momentum into the draft and make amazing trade deals for Chad, I mean let's get some ferocious defenders and trade bait Chad around the league like a whore until we get the best deal.
There was a time when I would have done anything for Chad, anything, but now he has lost my undying, unloseable loyalty.
Then we can just draft Run DMC and blow the top off the north!
Posted by: Matt McDermott | April 21, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Count me in. Let's televise this revolution in HD.
Posted by: Antonio | April 21, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Even my 9 year old son is sick of losing. Let's get with it Bengals!
Posted by: Bob | April 22, 2008 at 08:07 AM
This site just started you need to check it out. www.sendyourjerseybacktochad.com
Posted by: Joe | April 23, 2008 at 02:13 AM
I'd be happy if Lord Brown would let Katie take over. At least it would be a step in the right direction.
Posted by: M L Bockhorst | April 23, 2008 at 10:24 AM
Comrade Drewski wants to put Mike Brown and Marvin Lewis in a f***ing gulag.
Posted by: Drewski wooski whachugonnadoski | April 23, 2008 at 01:38 PM
lets trade Chad and Mike! Gary Yunger
Posted by: gycincy | April 23, 2008 at 05:06 PM
Mullet guy in section 312, row 3 seat 11 approves, as well as finger guy (seat unkown)
Posted by: Alex Simon | April 23, 2008 at 05:19 PM
Watching the Bengals roar to another 8-8 season will be like sticking dull pencils through my eyes.
Posted by: Brad Gough | April 23, 2008 at 09:43 PM
This year I bought my first HD tv, but the idea was ruined for I can not watch the Bengals game in HD through my tears
Posted by: Alex Simon | April 24, 2008 at 11:02 AM
gotta love Mikey for the Chad stand he has taken. You also have to love him for..............? Well at least we bought him a stadium and made him richer. Not that excited about the draft since we will take a running back, or maybe a guard in rounds 1 and 2, maybe a corner back in 3 along with a TE with the compensatory pick. Then we can concentrate on defense. Thanks, Gary Yunger
Posted by: gycincy | April 26, 2008 at 01:43 PM
gotta love Mikey for the Chad stand he has taken. You also have to love him for..............? Well at least we bought him a stadium and made him richer. Not that excited about the draft since we will take a running back, or maybe a guard in rounds 1 and 2, maybe a corner back in 3 along with a TE with the compensatory pick. Then we can concentrate on defense. Thanks, Gary Yunger
Posted by: gycincy | April 26, 2008 at 01:44 PM
It's time for a revolution... Who Dey!
Posted by: Andrew Wiggers | April 29, 2008 at 02:50 PM
Let's storm PBS and take the stadium until Brown gives into our demands!
Posted by: T. Rais | May 01, 2008 at 12:02 PM
It is easiest to arrive at your destination by having a driver who knows how to get there. Mike Brown does not know the way. The NFL should revoke his franchise rights for his inability to win over the past 17 years. I can't believe the city of Cincinnati gave money to help this idiot build a palace of incompetency. Like in Cleveland, the only way this city gets a winning football team is if the Bengals leave. I for one will be more than happy to buy a bus ticket for Mike and his family to leave. Good bye!
Keep the revolution going!
Posted by: Deadcat | May 07, 2008 at 04:29 PM
...at least we have new coordinators. Now to go back and remove them from all of the photos...
Posted by: Chaz | May 08, 2008 at 05:37 PM
Being a Bengals fan since 1987,Im down with this revolution,all the way from Scotland U.K
Posted by: Pilks1075 | May 10, 2008 at 05:52 PM
Pitchforks and torches, y'all, and meet at the Brown family compound. Reanimate the corpse of Paul Brown to explain to Mikey about apples that fall a good country mile from their trees- at least in terms of football acumen- or about the time the milkman visited Mommy. Put Peter Max images of Ocho's gold-toothed display on banners and tees- and call him "Che". Bring ownership to the community ala Green Bay and steal one of Parcells' personnel guys when he's not looking. Viva La Revolucion!
Posted by: raindogzilla | May 13, 2008 at 07:46 AM
The revolution will not be televised. As witnessed with this years schedule.
Posted by: Rivy | May 20, 2008 at 09:15 PM
like watching a train wreck, i cant stop
Posted by: Scott Simons | June 04, 2008 at 08:49 PM
Assassinate Mike Brown!
Posted by: 5hi7h34d | June 07, 2008 at 04:12 AM
Hey, Mikey! I heard Eddie DeBartolo is looking to get back into the football business. Do us a favor and cut him a deal. He knows how to get shit done.
IJR
Posted by: IgnatiusJReilly | June 07, 2008 at 04:34 PM
Who Dey
Posted by: Drew S. | June 09, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Some good moves this off season, so it's this year or bust Marvin. I wish the same to all above him.
Posted by: Cinydaveo | June 09, 2008 at 01:33 PM
Time to storm the castle!!!! Hot oil be damned!!
Posted by: Bekim Swolb | June 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM
I'm a long suffering Bengals fan, and I didn't realize until the last few years that all of our troubles are a result of the bad management that is the sole legacy of the Mike Brown era. He needs to turn over absolutely every single element of control to professionals who WANT to win and WILL DO WHAT IT TAKES to do so.
Posted by: RJ Parker | June 11, 2008 at 02:22 PM
Viva la Revolution!!
Posted by: Bigg Dugg | June 13, 2008 at 03:57 PM
Please Retire Mike!!
Posted by: Amy | July 01, 2008 at 12:16 PM
I love this site, I love you people, I have found my home. Bengals 5-11 in 2008.
Posted by: JonnyB | July 01, 2008 at 01:57 PM
Whoever it is that voted the Bengals would win 10 games or more this year is an absolute moron. Obviously, I'd be all for it. I'd also be all for banging the Olsen twins -- at the same time.
Posted by: MarkR | July 01, 2008 at 04:59 PM
Does anyone have an idea when Mike Brown will be walking down a flight of stairs near Milwaukee, Wisconsin some time soon? If so, I volunteer to give him a push.
Posted by: Tanner K. Johnson | July 07, 2008 at 10:03 PM