Celebrity Bengals fan Nick Lachey sends team owner Mike Brown a clear message with new song
Nick Lachey wants Mike Brown to sell the Bengals, and he put those words into a song.
Nick Lachey remains one of the more well-known celebrity Cincinnati Bengals fans, and he’s putting his celebrity status to use.
Lachey dropped a 2:20 song on his social media pages Friday afternoon titled “Sell ‘Em Mike Brown.” The song urges Bengals president and owner Mike Brown to sell the franchise.
“To all my fellow Bengals fans… we’ve suffered long enough,” Lachey wrote in his post.
Nick Lachey has had enough of Mike Brown owning the Bengals
Lachey’s rise to fame coincided with the worst era of Cincinnati football. The Harlan, KY native was a member of the boyband 98 Degrees, which dropped its self-titled debut album in 1997. The Bengals went 7-9 that year, but were 36-76 since Brown took over for his late father, Paul Brown, in 1991.
Cincinnati has gotten progressive better in the nearly 30 years since, but with the club missing the playoffs the last three years with and without a healthy Joe Burrow, frustration within the fan base has seen a rise, and apathy has also grown more common.
Lachey’s diss toward Brown seems like a way to counter that apathy, and reignite anger toward the front office for not capitalizing on Burrow’s prime years.
“Time and again
We’ve seen it slip away boy
Cause they ain’t got no plan
No no no no no”
The song comes a few weeks after Lachey posted his frustration about the Bengals retaining head coach Zac Taylor and director of player personnel Duke Tobin. Taylor returns for an eighth season with a 52-63-1 regular season record. Tobin has been with the club since 1999.
“When we were in L.A. at the Super Bowl, everyone was happy,” Tobin said during his end-of-season press conference. “Guess who else wasn’t happy this year? Me, I wasn’t happy. Nobody’s happy when it’s not going well.”
Clearly, Lachey isn’t happy and wants to share his contempt with fellow fans.
The Brown family has owned the franchise since Paul Brown founded in in 1967. Mike Brown inherited it in 1991, and Katie Blackburn, Mike’s daughter, is the club’s executive vice president. Blackburn is the future president of the Bengals.
Brown selling the team is about as unlikely of a proposition as you’ll find in the city of Cincinnati, though Lachey’s cries for change are heard loud and clear.
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