Bengals to be in Hard Knocks
May 15, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Sports
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It has to be a comedy special when HBO and the NFL put the Cincinnati Bengals on the Hard Knocks show. The Bengals may not be worst team, but they are one of the cheapest and most dysfunctional. Do you know they do not even use a general manager? That would only be a good thing if your GM of choice was Matt recently hired by ESPN Millen.
What can the NFL be thinking?
It will be very personality-driven, given the team’s lack of success and national profile. The Bengals (4-11-1) were so uninteresting to the NFL’s schedule makers that they got no prime-time games this season.
HBO wasn’t put off. Even though the Bengals have had only one winning record since 1991, they could provide some interesting subplots for the five-episode program that begins Aug. 12 and airs each week:
Ocho Cinco to be an HBO star!
Well, we have all been waiting for Ocho Cinco to have some sort of outlet besides football, since apparently football is not doing it for him.
NFL Films can count on spending time with another flamboyant receiver, although it will be interesting to see what Chad Ocho Cinco does in the spotlight. After failing to get the team to trade him last year, he kept a low profile during the season — a pleasing development to Lewis.
Now, his love of the spotlight will be tested.
“Ocho Cinco will be in this show, don’t worry about that,” Greenburg said.
This could turn out to be the funniest or saddest show on cable.
Photo source Newscom
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