I ran across this and knew some here would enjoy it. It's an email that was apparently written to WhoDeyRevolution from a guy in the U.K. It speaks for itself really:

Quote:I am a Bengals fan from the United Kingdom and recently found out about your website which really is a great insight into the real happenings at Paul Brown Stadium shows a side to the Bengals that is hard to see from over here. I started following the Bengals because my father has supported them since the 1970's (since a trip to the US) and he has always explained to me that you have to have zero expectations if you are to follow the Bengals but never the less I have taken them to heart and will never follow any other team now.

However, reading a few articles regarding the comparison between the Bengals and the Reds recently I felt I should contact you with our experience on our trip to Cincinnati last summer. My father and I came over to watch the Bengals first game against the Titans and three games for the Reds. To my father this was a once in a lifetime trip, in nearly 40 years of following the Bengals and Reds he had never had chance to see them live - he had been able to subscribe to the american sports papers, listen to obscure radio stations in early hours of the morning and try his best to keep track of their progress. He has an attic full of scrapbooks, merchandise and old US sports magazines but he had never had the chance to see them in the flesh.

So knowing this I contacted both the Reds and Bengals explaining our trip and that we would like to BUY tickets and asked if they would point us in the right direction. At this point I received almost immediately an e-mail from the Reds who put me in contact with their hall of fame. The people there I will be forever grateful to, they organised a guided tour of the stadium for the two of us, free premier seats for each game and a chance to meet the players and ex players. They did not have to do this and the way in which we were treated went way beyond anything I expected but was on the other hand in keeping with the amazing friendliness the people in Cincinnati showed to us when we were there.

Unfortunately this hospitality and friendliness was not continued across at Paul Brown Stadium, as some weeks later I received an e-mail from the Bengals stating that as there were no tickets left please contact 'stubhub.' A generic 3 line e-mail saying thanks but no thanks was the reward for 40 years support, I didn't want free tickets and that was never the intention of the e-mail but to be shown such disregard and contempt was difficult to accept considering how the Reds greeted us. To compound this and to really highlight the complete polar opposites of the two franchises we got tickets for the Bengals-Titans game...........from the Reds hall of fame staff.

I hope this has not bored you to greatly but it will always stick in my memory unfortunately. I think the effort you are making over there is unbelievable and hopefully one day will bear fruit in making the Bengals a better franchise for its fans.

Andrew from the UK.

Here's the whole article that includes their commentary:

Letter to WDR from fan in UK

would not expect anything less from the Brown family. I can only imagine that the next two days they'll screw it up even more.