Horrible Bosses: Bengals' Mike Brown

[Auggie]

By Rick Reilly, ESPN.com / 8-17-11

In this episode of "Horrible Bosses," we feature the owner of the Cincinnati Bengals, Mike Brown, and his mission to make everybody who works for him wish they had become podiatrists instead.

Brown's football career peaked upon birth. He was born the son of legendary football genius Paul Brown and has done zilch to remind anybody of him since.

Here's how bad it is working for Brown: His best and most honorable player, Pro Bowl quarterback Carson Palmer, is vowing to walk away from $46 million rather than work another day in Brown's prison stripes.

"Carson just finally got fed up," says a close friend of Palmer. "He's just sick of the same 5,000 mistakes the franchise repeats every year. He's tired of wallowing in mediocrity. He won't ever talk about it, but that's how he feels. He's a very tolerant guy, but when he gets pushed over the line, he gets mad and doesn't go back. He'd love to play, he's dying to play, but he's never going to play there."

MORE: http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/6866409/horrible-bosses-cincinnati-bengals-owner-mike-brown

And...

• Brown has cut hundreds of players before their contract was up and given them nothing.

• Most teams have four or five scouts; Brown keeps one or two.

• Since Brown became owner, the team has had only 2 winning seasons out of 20 and has a winning percentage of .361 (115-204-1) in the regular season and .000 (0-2) in the playoffs. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Brown_(NFL_owner)

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I guess Brown still considers himself to be the "de facto" general manager too, giving Dan Snyder some competition for title of worst NFL owner. Skins' fans -- Bengals' fans -- what say you?

[madinmaryland]

1. "giving Dan Snyder some competition for title of worst NFL owner"

:rofl:

[era veteran]

2. 84 miles away from Cincy, I am now a Packer fan

The City is governed/run by retired U Boat Captains. The Bungles are not as lucky.
Brown is not a credit to his father's legacy.
Even worse than Marge and the Reds.

[hughee99]

3. You need to go no further than saying that Marvin Lewis has managed

to keep his job for 8 years. Even a bad owner would have fired him by now. Brown can only aspire to "bad".