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    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:19:50 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>THE BENGALS BLOW, THEIR FANS EVEN KNOW!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/46912/46912#msg-46912</link>
      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[When was the last time anybody could say &quot;I'm proud to be a Bengals fan&quot;

1989 or thereabouts?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:19:50 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Bengals are just Bad</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/38746/38746#msg-38746</link>
      <author>SportsFan48</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I watched that game and was just amazed at the Bengals self-destruction. Poor play calling, going long when they should just put a drive together. Constant 3rd and longs, and constant poor choices leading to momentum killing penalties.

Instead of getting a safety we get a holding penalty that allows the Steelers to keep going. This is just one of many many examples of poor Bengals execution.

The Bengals are just bad.]]></description>
      <category>Cincinnati Bengals</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:52:35 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>The Psychology of Bengals Management</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/32522/32522#msg-32522</link>
      <author>psychostats</author>
      <description><![CDATA[While the Psychiatric profession deserves much criticism for “medicalizing” individual differences, their observations can come in handy when dealing with perplexing people.  Each of many defined “personality disorders” is based upon countless hours of observations and represents a collection of traits often seen in real people.  Making the information useful for everyday life is the viewpoint--commonly held--that each disorder is merely an extreme exaggeration of a reasonably healthy personality “style”.  

A Psychiatrist, John M. Oldham, even wrote a book on the subject, The New Personality Self-Portrait (1995).  All of us, by the way, are said to have commonalities with one or more of his 13 identified “normal” personality styles.  And by extension, we all share traits with some of the personality disorders.  So nobody is left out of this jolly party, including you and me.  

As we all know, the Cincinnati Bengals suffer from a chronic lack of success on the football field.  Yet year after year we see the same old issues come up with precious little change in approach.  With one winning record in 17 seasons, one has to wonder about the people who run the team. What on earth makes them tick?  Rather than falling back on standard sports-fan ranting, we might as well see if Oldham has anything to offer.

One suspects that the dominant personality style among Bengals team management is the &quot;Conscientious Personality&quot;.  Perfectionist, hard working, sticking to convictions, and always seeking to do the “right” thing in the “right” way.  It all seems honorable enough, and it would be pure conjecture to think that anybody goes too far.  But from this we can start to make sense of why they do the things they do.  

It’s even more interesting is to look at team management as a single entity.  It’s a stretch to apply personality classifications to an entire group, but maybe we are on to something here.  Sometimes reasonable people get together and mutually reinforce certain behaviors.  The behaviors, although initially quite reasonable, get magnified to the point they become a problem.  

So with that, we can take a look at Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD). It’s the Conscientious Personality taken to the extreme.  To be diagnosed with OCPD, one has to exhibit at least four of nine criteria.  Here then are the key four, paraphrased for simplicity:

     - Focuses more on process than results (the point of the activity is lost).

     - Miserly spending style.

     - Reluctant to delegate tasks.

     - Very stubborn.

If we consider chronic losing (or chronic mediocrity) to be a significant problem, then the team is very dysfunctional.  Could it be due to a kind of group OCPD?  It surely can’t help a team win in the NFL.  But please keep in mind that we’re not claiming that any particular individual has OCPD.  It’s just that management, as a group, comes off that way.

The implications are all very grim.  The losing isn’t due to a lack of business or football acumen.  Frugality is a symptom, not a cause.  Same with the lack of a General Manager.  The real problem is the core approach to life shared by the people who run the franchise.  It’s not conducive to fielding a winning NFL team, and things are not going to get any better.

And what of us, the Bengals fans?  Well, the answer to that goes without saying.  We all obviously suffer from a severe form of Masochistic Personality Disorder.  But that is a topic for another day.]]></description>
      <category>Cincinnati Bengals</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:19:39 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Bagels football</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/25422/25422#msg-25422</link>
      <author>Mr.Original sbss blw</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Who dey ???? every team on the block !!!! The bagels are the worst team I have ever seen. What a bunch of retards and the fans are worst rednecks I have seen. Who dey?????]]></description>
      <category>Cincinnati Bengals</category>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:26:47 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Landon Johnson and Jonathan Fanene signing this weekend in Cincinnati!!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/23508/23508#msg-23508</link>
      <author>Kaza Kingsley</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Come meet Cincinnati pro starting linebacker Landon Johnson tonight (Friday, September 28, 2007) at 7:00 with bestselling fantasy author Kaza Kingsley at Union Center Barnes and Noble Westchester (by the Rave Cinema.) Get autographs and a great fantasy book as well! 

Then on Sunday, September 30 at 3:00 come meet Cincinnati defensive player Jonathan Fanene with Kaza Kingsley at Barnes and Noble at Newport on the Levy! Get more autographs and a signed book, too!

Kaza Kingsley
Author of the Erec Rex series
http://www.erecrex.com]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:16:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Searching for Defense</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/20495/23384#msg-23384</link>
      <author>TheGoodWineGuy</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hey Bengals Fans &amp; Friends, I know that alL of you are not all JUST beer drinking experts during the game. I have another venue/opportunity for you if interested in changing things abit and THINKING out of the box. I can provide some wines for a tastings right in the convienence of your own home if interested contact me... www.greatwinetastings.net or greatwinetastings@yahoo.com I am Robert.  and OH.... BY THE WAY... THE TASTING SAMPLES ARE ON ME.]]></description>
      <category>Cincinnati Bengals</category>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:27:13 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Searching for Defense</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/20495/20495#msg-20495</link>
      <author>psychostats</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Pardon me, friends.  I was hoping you might kindly assist me as I seem to have lost my way. I've been wandering all over creation looking for the Bengals Defense, but with no success to speak of.  

The Bengals Defense is often mentioned in vague whispers, but doesn't appear on any map. Many claim it exists only in myth, but the rumors sound too tantalizing to ignore. I might have glimpsed it a few times, but it always seemed to disappear off the distant horizon. My best lead was to look just South of Vanishing Fortunes, but that proved to be overly optimistic.  

A kind Spanish gentleman with a comb morion offered to help, but only after he locates El Dorado. (I have a bad feeling that one will take a while.) As I'm starting to feel quite desperate, I thought I would reach out to you.  Anything to point me in the right direction will be most appreciated.]]></description>
      <category>Cincinnati Bengals</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:06:57 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: WHERE IS EVERYONE???</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/13943/20492#msg-20492</link>
      <author>DaytonAFB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[anyone going to the game, steelers vs bengals? I am!!!! found some cheap tix too (http//:tixthis.com ) there are gonna be lotta fights at that game]]></description>
      <category>Cincinnati Bengals</category>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:25:21 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Worst Monday night football game I ever saw!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/16280/16280#msg-16280</link>
      <author>toolman</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It would be nice to watch a game and actually hear some play by play announcing. Vick is gone, he has been in the news for a month and I think just about everybody new he had no choice but to plead guilty. Atlanta's back up quarterback did a great job and he just didn't get the credit he deserved.]]></description>
      <category>Cincinnati Bengals</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:52:31 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>WHERE IS EVERYONE???</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/13943/13943#msg-13943</link>
      <author>THENOIZZ</author>
      <description><![CDATA[where is everyone???? JD, you know we still have our bet.........whodey, I know your scared to talk some Chargers football.......come on guys, dont be wussies!!!]]></description>
      <category>Cincinnati Bengals</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:15:29 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Who Dey!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/4732/13942#msg-13942</link>
      <author>THENOIZZ</author>
      <description><![CDATA[where is everyone???? JD, you know we still have our bet.........whodey, I know your scared to talk some Chargers football.......come on guys, dont be wussies!!!]]></description>
      <category>Cincinnati Bengals</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:14:45 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Who Dey!</title>
      <link>http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/4732/4732#msg-4732</link>
      <author>blessed1</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Browns, Steelers, Ravens be very afraid]]></description>
      <category>Cincinnati Bengals</category>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://discussions.oxfordpress.com/read/72/4732/4732#msg-4732</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:15:02 -0400</pubDate>
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