(01-02-2013 11:06 AM)CliftonAve Wrote: (01-02-2013 10:55 AM)BearcatBeta Wrote: People would rather complain about the stupidity of the Bengals
than the success of the Bearcats.
This.
If you listen to Bengal telephone calls on the airwaves, they usually are the same calls repeated over and over again:
1. Some fan complaining about Mike Brown or the coaches (fill in the blank to the given year for the appropriate coach Shula/Coslet/Lebeau/Marvin and the coordinators).
2. Some fan wondering whether this will be the year they either make the playoffs or win a playoff game (this year)
3. Some fan calling in saying Kenny Anderson should be in the Hall of Fame.
4. Some fan calling in just to say “Who Dey”.
5. Not so much anymore, but for about a decade UC talk radio was littered with calls for Boomer to come back.
This in a nutshell is every Bengal call. The rest of the time is Mo, Lance, Dave Lapham, et al. talking to each other. Lance will bring up yearly topic of “Who went to the Freezer Bowl” or rehash the Bengal/49ers Super Bowl games to generate different discussion but this is basically it. Frankly, I find Bengal talk to be very boring.
If you listen to the people calling as opposed to what they want to talk about, you'll find that sports talk radio callers:
A. Skew a lot older than the average resident
B. Skew a lot less educated than the average resident (I know it's not scientific, but listen to the average caller for lack of proper grammar when speaking, overuse of invented or improper contractions, use of double negatives, etc.)
C. Skew a lot more rural than the average resident (again, not scientific, but listen to the accents you hear on callers)
What you're listening to is the segment of the population that probably isn't online and active in online sports discussions, isn't on twitter, etc. Online communities like this, where you can get dedicated UC talk 24/7, have killed call-in sports radio (and call-in political radio too, for that matter). Most educated, working, dedicated fans aren't going to make time to listen and call-in to a radio show when they can hop online and pound out a few thoughts on the keyboard about their topic of choice.
The caliber of callers drops as a consequence, and you're left talking to an audience that has no other outlet and (generally) falls to the lowest-common denominator in terms of interest and intelligence level. Ergo: your average Bengals fan.