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It’s not fun being a Bengals fan right now. It’s bad enough that your team is winless, but you have Carson Palmer on the brink of reconstructive surgery, your head coach laughin’ it up at each Monday press conference when, clearly, nothing is funny about this season, and Chad Johnson is still on your team.
So, not surprisingly, fans started unloading their tickets for the rest of the season last week. And if the horrible product on the field is already starting to drive away fans, stories like Randy’s won’t help.
See, Randy -- pictured after the game in that blurry photo -- is a lifelong Bengals fan who took his daughter to her first ever football game, along with his wife, on Sunday. Some might consider this child and/or spousal abuse, but that’s another story. The family was having a super awesome day of tailgating, playing corn hole, watching their team get ripped to shreds by the Steelers ... and then this happened:
My wife and daughter went to the restroom. The [Steelers fan] directly behind me kept going on about Mike Brown and I finally said, "At least he isn't selling our team. You guys might end up the LA Steelers.” I never turned around once or confronted anyone. It was just banter during the game. Let's face it, it's pretty hard to come up with anything to defend this franchise currently. Besides this wasn't a fan on the losing side they were well on there way to victory.Oh sweet irony. Randy got beat up for defending the owner of a team that has been emotionally beating down Randy for years. But on the bright side, I'm sure his daughter wasn't scarred at all from her first football game.The next thing I know I felt a crushing blow to the side of my face. I fell, not really sure where since it knocked me out. I woke up in the security office with my face being attended to. I was covered in blood and my face was a mess. When I fell I must have hit a railing and went face first to the concrete stairs. I have a broken wrist and a bruised knee.
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Sucks to be you Randy.
by SteelHammer on Oct 22, 2008 12:21 AM EDT reply actions
Some people don’t deserve the privledge of walking on the ground god has given them, and we all know Steelers fans are Satanic, so put the pieces together. (Thouh I’m sure you’ll find it hard. . .)
by Bobo the bee on Oct 22, 2008 2:05 AM EDT reply actions
Pissburgh fans are a bunch of inbred hillbillies that spend their entire weeks pay on Stooler tickets and beer. This story doesn’t surprise me. What does surprise me is that nobody stepped in to help this guy. Let’s just say these chumps were lucky they weren’t near my section. I would’ve personally sent all of them to the hospital.
Oh, and SteelHammer is a bitch.
by Ocho Noshow on Oct 22, 2008 10:37 AM EDT reply actions
That’s what Tony the Tiger looked like after Snap, Crackle and Pop finished discussing union matters with him.
by L'etat, c'est moi on Oct 22, 2008 7:49 PM EDT reply actions
Oh, by the way, Randy:
Rudi Johnson now plays for the DETROIT LIONS. The Steeler fan would’ve not attacked you if you wore the CURRENT Rudi Johnson jersey to Paul Brown Stadium last week. I think Randy’s picture is the face of the 2008 Cincinnati Bengals as they will go 0-16. And Raider owner Al Davis and the late Rams owner Georgia Frontiere are to blame for moving their teams from L.A. If Al and/or Georgia did not move their team(s), Randy would not be attacked. And for Roger Goodell, nice going, jerk. The NFL Fan Code of Conduct is a failure. Goodell, take a look at Randy Reed’s face. THIS should be the new NFL logo, not the NFL shield. The NFL: Believe in Randy Reed!
by FredBenson69 on Oct 27, 2008 10:57 AM EDT reply actions
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