@jon-nyc said in Go Bengals and Jags!:
Why does it piss you off? The neutral site? Or the fact that they’re already selling tickets?
The fact that they completely ignored their own policies and procedures throughout the process. They had policies in place to cover the exact situation of a canceled game not being made up. And those rules don’t call for coin flips and neutral fields. You follow the rules you have in place. If you wind up not liking the results, then change those rules going forward. Don’t change them mid-stream.
Had they followed the original agreed upon rules, the Bengals were assured a home playoff game in the WC. They could have then rested their starters in Week 18 and would have had the chance to have a “bye” week going the playoffs. Instead, they had to play 2 “do or die” games in a row against a very physical and violent divisional rival. They are going into this week down several starters that are just too beat up.
Divisional Round and Conference Championship Weekends are considered to be the best 2 weeks of football and superior to the Super Bowl. The Home Crowd excitement and cheering is considered to be a huge part of that. Neutral Site games ruin that.
A lot of insiders are pointing to the headline about “Over 50K tickets sold in one day” and are thinking they will make a move for all Championship Games to be neutral site…
