CINCINNATI—Claiming that the phone had been ringing off the hook all morning, Bengals owner and general manager Mike Brown told reporters Tuesday that representatives from every NFL franchise had contacted the Bengals organization to insist they absolutely do not want quarterback Carson Palmer. "As soon as the news got out that Carson wanted to be traded, coaches and general managers were just clamoring to let me know what a bad fit he would be for any team wanting to win football games," said Brown, adding that he was also contacted by several CFL teams expressing their uninterest in the Bengals starting quarterback. "Some teams have been hounding me five or six times a day just to let me know how badly they didn't want to see Carson Palmer in one of their uniforms next year." Brown confirmed that at least two dozen teams had offered the Bengals draft picks in exchange for a guarantee that the organization wouldn't try to make a deal for Palmer.
I saw this on my phone yesterday and the comments were hilarious! One said "If Palmer sees his career tomorrow, will there be six more weeks of winter?"
In a somewhat related story, one of my Cinti friends posted that the Bengals organization is asking for $43M in taxpayer dollars to upgrade the stadium. It's not that old, we paid for it to be built, yet the Brown's get to manage and keep the profits from it after twisting the city into giving up rights to the stadium, and they want the taxpayers to pay for maintenance and upgrades? What kind of greedy thinking is that? Ugh.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
SS109 wrote: I love when Plamer requested a trade and the Bungles denied him. I would have released him a long time ago. Orton IMO is a better QB.
Always on the side of the Plantation Owner, and never the slave. A lot of you people really don't understand whats going on in the world, you always take Goliath over David- and as fellow Davids, how stupid is that?
