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Paul Daugherty
Paul Daugherty has been an Enquirer sports columnist since 1994 and has been chronicling Cincinnati sports since 1988. He has covered almost every major sporting event in America, as well as five Summer Olympics. Along the way, he has been named one of the country's top-5 sports columnists four times, and Ohio columnist of the year on seven different occasions. Last year, he was voted 2nd-best sports columnist in the country, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes

Chris Henry is accused of smashing a guy's car window with a beer bottle, and punching said guy in the face. Chad Johnson does a 5-minute ramble with a befuddled ESPN anchor who has no idea what Ocho is talking about. (Neither does anyone else). Mike Brown helps lead a crusade against the current CBA with the players, the crux of his argument being, apparently, that the owners don't make enough money. This, while operating within the most successful, richest sports league in the history of the world. And oh, yeah, enjoying monopoly status.

And, double oh yeah, spending the week at The Breakers in Palm Beach, where a room goes for four figures a night.

Here's an option, NFL owners: If it's that tragic operating within a system that all but guarantees you money just for fielding a team, then sell. Find yourself a job where competition is mandatory and revenues/profits are not all but guaranteed. Until then, keep a low profile.

Excuse me if I missed the part where the owner asks forgiveness/patience/anything for 16 non-winning seasons in the last 17 years and for the national punchline his franchise has returned to being.

Rich guys rattling their jewelry never looks good. Around here these days, especially.


10 Comments:

at 11:11 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Paul, you or anyone else couldn't have said it better.

 
at 11:17 AM Blogger Anonymous said...

Does sound like the franchise is starting to fall apart doesnt it. Hey, look at it this way. we have carson palmer (who will be league MVP). Go Reds!

Carson Palmer will be MVP (just sayin)

Mike from the 90's

 
at 11:29 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chad understands what Chad was saying. Does it really matter that nobody else does?
Mike and Ralph Wilson understand what each other are saying. Even their multi-millionaire friends have a hard time understanding, so what makes you thing we fans, lowest of all forms of life, could possible understand.
What I understand is that both Mike and Chad want my money. Each makes millions and has millions. I make 65K and have about that much saved in a lifetime of real work. something is very wrong

 
at 12:04 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

I haven't seen the movie but, "Leatherhead" seems more interesting than these guys.

 
at 2:28 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

I live in Phoenix now, but I'm more than willing to go in with several (thousand) fans in purchasing the Bengals from Mikey Boy and running the team a la the Packers if it guarantees a) more than one winning season every 15 years, b) smart draft picks, and c) a GM (*gasp*) to oversee all the technical stuff so that Marvin's not playing two different roles

 
at 3:40 PM Blogger MikeL said...

Thank goodness we have a new baseball season and Bearcat football.
The other stuff hasn't been worthy of my attention for some time.

 
at 3:54 PM Blogger MikeL said...

Here's what looks good because it is-
"Staying in Character
Kim Nuxhall upholds a legacy by striving to give back as much as his famous father did"

We are extremely fortunate to have lots of class acts like this in Cincinnati.

 
at 4:30 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

This just in, Chad Johnson is nuts. He's not angry or troubled, he's cuckoo. He's even starting to sound a little bit like Mike Tyson, which makes him even more disturbing. At least Henry went off the rails for the final time before the draft, so the Bengals can (but probably won't) draft a burner as a deep threat to replace him.

 
at 7:03 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Henry isn't as dumb as he looks & acts. He just observed Ocho Nutso Cinco and figured, hey, "anything goes around here!" and acted accordingly.

If Mike won't draw a line other than his own bottom-line, this crap will be with us until death-do-him-part. Cutting Henry now was his only choice, since he's now un-tradeable.
I don't like Marvin but he's got the "Head Coaching Job from Hell".
Careful for what you wish for?

 
at 8:34 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

Paul, just wondered if you could either comment on, or do an article on, the succession of ownership of the Bengals when Mikey leaves us.

In other words is Katie automatically the next owner? Is that good or bad from your view of things. Or will it be more of the same. Just interested. Thanks.

 
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