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The NFL Hates the Bengals

The NFL Hates the Bengals

So we say. It's time for Bengal Nation to take a breath

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Paul Daugherty
May 16, 2024
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The NFL hates the Cincinnati Bengals. This is plain.

The league doesn’t want The Men to succeed. It’s a small-market thing. Everybody knows that. Park Avenue couldn’t find Pete Rose Way with Waze and a Sherpa guide. That’s if the NFL wanted to find Pete Rose Way, which it does not.

That’s why the schedule makers arranged for the Bengals to play three times in 11 days and ordered yet another forced march to KC.

The NFL loves KC. Did we say it hates the Bengals? The NFL hates the Bengals.

The best thing about the day the NFL schedule is revealed is that we won’t be hearing any more hype about when the NFL schedule is revealed. The next-best is the irrational bitching the announcement invariably provokes.

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