Cincinnati Bengals fans are frustrated at team's deteriorated passing game (full disclosure: Oddbounces actor portraying angry fan).
The Cincinnati Bengals passing game. Dude, where’d ya go?
Once considered the franchise anchor with bad-ass arms like Greg Cook, Ken Anderson and Boomer Esiason, today it’s simply an anchor sinking hopes of a legit Super Bowl run.
Or is it?
We think there’s still good in this passing game, dammit. All we have to do is throw it … and frakkin catch it. That’s why Oddbounces recently commandeered the Bengals marketing department, preventing yet another totally lame 2010 advertising campaign tagline, such as:
2010: It’s Our Year … or 2010: The Future Is Now … or 2010: It’s Our Time … or 2010: Now, It’s Our Future … or 2010: It’s Our Future, Now. Or …. okay, you get the picture.
(BTW, it’s not just the Bengals who mega suck at tagline development … pretty much all professional sports teams do. Sometimes it’s because they’re, well, just lame … but mostly it’s because a really great tagline usually offends at least one person somewhere in the world. So most teams end up with totally safe, politically correct and forgettable campaigns.)
"Of course I don't have any balls," said naked bike-rider Mary Morality of West Chester, "but if I did they'd be flying through the air right now. Like a baseball or football."
So, starting Monday on billboards, bus stops and every urinal cakes in 8 surrounding counties you’ll see, hear and feel the Bengals’ brand-spanking new 2010 tagline:
THIS SEASON. LESS RUNNING.
AND MORE BALLS IN THE AIR.
Yeah, yeah, I know, there are “those” people who totally misunderstand us at Oddbounces … and will say we’re using “balls in the air” as an immature, juvenile, poddy-mouthed way of referring to actual testicles in the air. Nothing could be further from the truth.
We’re so misunderstood.
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More balls in the air works for me but I don’t see Marvin throwing it this year. I think all the attention to the passing game is to just make the passing game better, not to throw it any more often. Sorry, it’s balls on the ground (ouch!), again this season.
It comes down to how effective Gresham and Bryant are. If those guys can get in a grove with Palmer early on then I think Lewis and Brat will throw more. But if it’s more drops and wrong route running agsin this year then Lewis will start handing it off.
With Ced’s early season status unknown at this time Lewis may have no choice but to throw it.
CCQB, at most Benson will get a 2-game suspension, I think, unless some badly damning info comes out about his night with the Texas bar-room white guys … so I’m not sure that’s enough to entirely derail Lewis’ run-first, run-often philosophy. So I’m sticking to Oddbounces rally cry … this season, we want MORE BALLS IN THE AIR!!
Okay, my balls are in the air. Now how do I get them down?
Houdino, now a large, fast man with big hand will grab the balls and pull ‘em down before heading to the end zone. Enjoy!
That hurt.