Cowher after beating Bengals in playoffs
posted by Mark at 6:04 PM
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Bengals Mark Curnutte offers the latest on the Cincinnati Bengals |
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 Mark Curnutte started covering the Bengals and the NFL for The Enquirer in 2000. He previously wrote about urban affairs and other social issues for the Enquirer. He won the prestigious 1994 Unity Award from Lincoln University (Missouri) for "A Polite Silence," a seven-day series about race relations in Greater Cincinnati. He also has worked as an assistant features editor and features writer at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. Curnutte is second vice president and a three-year board member of the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA). He is a 1984 Miami University graduate. Previous Posts
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2 Comments:
at 9/20/2006 10:39 PM 
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at 9/21/2006 3:15 PM 
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Post a Comment*Watching Cowher once again in his post-playoff locker room revelry is maddening. He certainly has a singular capacity to come off as a jerk, but he is also a great, great Hall of Fame caliber coach.
I remember the '70's Steeler teams very well. I saw them at least once a season throughout the decade. Not only did those teams win four Super Bowls, but they also frequently lost in Cincinnati. Cowher's teams have never had that problem. Noll's teams did. Noll had better players.
I begrudgingly attribute that (the absence of losses in Cincinnati) to the surpassing excellence of Bill Cowher's coaching.
Chip Lapp
Kenwood OH
Mark, you beat the Bengals (or any team) straight up and you can poke fun at them all you want in the spirit of competition. But to win in kind of cheap fashion and then mock the other team, that's just low class. VERY low class.
There's plenty of class in the sports world (Ben Roethlisberger expressed concern for Palmer in his post-game interview and took pains not to gloat), but none of it has stuck to Bill Cowher. I don't know if he was just so excited about winning his first-ever playoff game on the road, but to mock the Bengals again at the Super Bowl parade shows it is purely lack of class. It will never matter how good a coach he is, he will always be in the Buddy Ryan cheap-shot, no-class club.
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