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(08-14-2019 11:40 AM)bearcatmill Wrote:  

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(08-14-2019 08:31 AM)skylinecat Wrote:  Hopefully another year of the Bengals winning 4 games will continue to push people towards the Cats. I know it will never happen, but UC aught to do a marketing campaign to remind people that the Bengals haven't won a playoff game since 1988 and Reagan was president.

I was trying to figure this out the other day. With a truly random selection of the 32 teams, what percentage of teams would win a playoff game everyone year.?

You are right that it would never happen. The Bengals and UC have a friendship that started when the Bengals were an expansion team and played their home games at Nippert, and continues today with UC playing their big games at PBS and the Bengals using UC's indoor practice facility. That relationship will never be broken and they wouldn't do anything to piss each other off. That's why we have never seen any anti-Bengals marketing from UC.

I get what you're trying to say, but why is Hang On Sloopy played at every Bengals game? I've always felt like the Bengals have tried to identify more with OSU than with the schools in their own city.

I would agree with that, but I think that has more to do with Paul Brown being a former student and coach at OSU.

Brown family has connections to osu and Cry-ami (oh) as well. They use UC where it benefits them, i.e. indoor facility. I believe when we played games there against uofl and wvu the contract was severely one sided. At least this is what I heard. The year we were forced to play there, many in the business community persuaded Mike into more reasonable terms.

My major gripe was when Lapham assured Bungles fans UC was a one year wonder, after our Orange Bowl appearance. He kept saying we would not make a major bowl again.

Syracuse grad. Probably miffed UC was dominating his alma mater on an annual basis. Also, he did the color commentary for Big 12 games for a long time. I think he has always looked down on UC as small potatoes.