Bengals arrest rumor

[DC_Bengals_Fan]

So, here's my question:

When Florio blames the rumor sweeping "Intergoogle", does he have any idea how ironic it is to blame the internet when he himself is the source of the internet rumoring?

Good lord.

Moron. What a jerk.

Why are you pissed that he's *not* dumping on the Bengals with no evidence?

[kenyon1977]

Whatever.

[membengal]

DC....because Florio's initial post back at 11:00 DID dump on the Bengals with no evidence, starting all of the murmuring across the 'net and on WLW.

Here's the initial post from Florio:

ANOTHER BENGALS ARREST?

It's been a while since a member of the Cincinnati Bengals has been busted. Specifically, the last one came more than two months ago, when former Bengals linebacker A.J. Nicholson was arrested on assault charges.

We've heard from two different tipsters that another Bengals arrest has occurred. We've got the name of the player, and we're working to corroborate the information before we reveal the name.

Stay tuned.

Well, I consider running it in that way "dumping". Tipsters? Huh? What? Then, four hours later, Florio mumbles about the rumors sweeping the net that he himself jumpstarted. Laughable.

[The PatternMaster]

Midget Florio is a punk who hides behind the internet as he spews his garbage, he makes up rumors like this one and tries to pass it off as "no harm, no foul".

This whole rumor thing was bs, he just wanted some hits for his gossip site, he's the NFL's version of Perez Hilton.

[BengalszoneBilly]

Wouldnt this already be on the National sport news circuit on a slow News day in August.

Exactly, I can't imagine anyone sitting on a story like this. Especially in Kentucky.

There's no way any law enforcement agency in ANY state would sit on releasing news on a bust for more than a day or so. Their egos just wouldn't allow it! I smell BS all over this alleged "rumor."

[COB]

Next from Florio:

"Linebacker Teddy Bruschi caught with a bale of weed in Kentucky and Chris Henry is, yep, you guessed it, dead."

[DC_Bengals_Fan]

DC....because Florio's initial post back at 11:00 DID dump on the Bengals with no evidence, starting all of the murmuring across the 'net and on WLW.

Here's the initial post from Florio:

ANOTHER BENGALS ARREST?

It's been a while since a member of the Cincinnati Bengals has been busted. Specifically, the last one came more than two months ago, when former Bengals linebacker A.J. Nicholson was arrested on assault charges.

We've heard from two different tipsters that another Bengals arrest has occurred. We've got the name of the player, and we're working to corroborate the information before we reveal the name.

Stay tuned.

Well, I consider running it in that way "dumping". Tipsters? Huh? What? Then, four hours later, Florio mumbles about the rumors sweeping the net that he himself jumpstarted. Laughable.

I'm not seeing the problem. Apparently, this rumor did exist, and predated PFT's coverage. So it would be inaccurate to pin him for starting the rumor. He doesn't name the player. Then he announces that he believes that said rumor, which he didn't start, is BS.

For an admitted rumor site, I don't have a problem with that.

[membengal]

You are missing the point...for him to criticize the rumors sweeping the "Intergoogle" without acknowledging that he HIMSELF was the genesis of that rumor-mongering is laughable. Laughable.

Oh, and nevermind passing along pure rumor while pretending to "fact check" before running more detail as happened in his initial post. Here's a thought, don't pass it along when there is no substance.

[HoosierCat]

Can't say I see much to complain about. Florio gets a tip, withholds details pending confirmation, gets none, follows up with a post that the tip was apparently bogus. No names were named, no reputations damaged and, best of all, no Bengals were arrested. And in the interim Bengals message boards get a boost in traffic and Bengals fans get another excuse to goof off at work for several hours. Pretty much a win-win-win all around.

[BengalszoneBilly]

And in the interim Bengals message boards get a boost in traffic and Bengals fans get another excuse to goof off at work for several hours.

Hey, I'm not goofing off! I'll have you know I'm clocked out for lunch!

[J24]

Can't say I see much to complain about. Florio gets a tip, withholds details pending confirmation, gets none, follows up with a post that the tip was apparently bogus. No names were named, no reputations damaged and, best of all, no Bengals were arrested. And in the interim Bengals message boards get a boost in traffic and Bengals fans get another excuse to goof off at work for several hours. Pretty much a win-win-win all around.

I like that Logic I mean seriously it gives us something to do and bitch about and yet nothing really happens and Yet it makes Chris actually look like he is not a butmunch for once.If that makes sense

[membengal]

Can't say I see much to complain about. Florio gets a tip, withholds details pending confirmation, gets none, follows up with a post that the tip was apparently bogus. No names were named, no reputations damaged and, best of all, no Bengals were arrested. And in the interim Bengals message boards get a boost in traffic and Bengals fans get another excuse to goof off at work for several hours. Pretty much a win-win-win all around.

He shouldn't have run the initial post without confirmation. Period. And it is disingenuous as f**k for him to act all surprised about internet rumors four hours later. Positively Drudge-like. And that's not a good thing.

[JPW]

No names were named, no reputations damaged ...

The Bengals were named ...

[BengalByTheBay]

For every rumor that ends up being correct, PFT posts 10 that never pan out. As long as you can lose the sense that "where there's smoke there's fire" and read PFT for what it is...incredibly in-credible source that sometimes comes up with a story first, I don't think there's anything wrong with checking it out. You just have to take it with a whole shaker of salt.

[Spor_tees]

Has anyone thought that there might be a little more at play here than meets the eye? A few people have said that if the police department did arrest a Bengals player they wouldn't sit on it for a day. Well if it was the Georgetown, Ky police department, home of where the Bengal's training camp is, that could be a little untrue. Think how much money each year Bengal's training camp brings to the town of Georgetown, KY. Also I believe Mike Brown only extended the Bengal's contract with the town for a year or 2, so that means the town is still in negotiations to keep the Bengals their long term...

So if you were the mayor or city manager of some little po-dunk town in Kentucky, and one arrest was about to make you lose your cash cow, what's the chances that heads might get turned the other way...

BTW if it was a Bengals WR caught with weed, it might have been Reggie McNeal too, he was caught with weed in TX already.

[Ox]

Has anyone thought that there might be a little more at play here than meets the eye? A few people have said that if the polive department did arrest a Bengals player they wouldn't sit on it for a day. Well if it was the Georgetown, Ky police department, hoe of where the Bengal's training camp is, that could be a little untrue. Think how much money each year Bengal's training camp brings to the town of Georgetown, KY. Also I believe Mike Brown only extended the Bengal's contract with the town for a year or 2, so that means the town is still in negotiations to keep the Bengals their long term...

So if you were the mayor or city manager of some little po-dunk town in Kentucky, and one arrest was about to make you lose your cash cow, what's the chances that heads might get turned the other way...

BTW if it was a Bengals WR caught with weed, it might have been Reggie McNeal too, he was caught with weed in TX already.

Here's an article on that very thing:

Dr. Bill Crouch, president of Georgetown College, is happy with the camp and prospects for the future too. “From the College’s point of view, revenue has been greater this summer than ever before. We’ve had in excess of 3,000 fans for each of the practices. Parking revenue has gone up from an average of $4,200 a day last year to $9,700 this year.”

Simpson said, “It’s hard to track hotel use because people don’t make reservations based on being Bengals fans. But we do see a lot of team paraphernalia, so hotels can get a sense of that. I do know that last year on scrimmage weekend we had something in the neighborhood of 800 room nights on the Friday and Saturday nights of the scrimmage and the practice game.”

“This year, the response we got on scrimmage weekend was that all our hotels in the county were full. We have 12 hotels open now, and the estimates range from 30 percent to 70 percent of their business came from training camp visitors. That’s a big impact! There were lots of people in downtown Georgetown. The hotel owners have said the Bengals training camp has definitely had a significant impact on their lodging nights.”

Glen Richardson with Best Western and Comfort Suites confirms Simpson’s assessment. “We always look forward to the Bengals coming. Our hotel properties are full for the two weeks the training camp is in town.”

The Tourism Commission couldn’t be more pleased from a community perspective, according to Simpson. “Bengals fans are out and about in town. They shop in our stores, they eat in our restaurants, and buy gas. So it’s a big economic impact in the community. This really helps us. From 2003 to 2005, Scott County had the fastest growth in the state, and the Cincinnati Bengals Training Camp has certainly contributed to our success.

http://www.bizlex.com/story.php?id=47

And another:

Georgetown braces for Bengaldom invasion

By GEOFF HOBSON
June 26, 2007

Posted: 6:35 p.m.

With an extra week to host Bengals training camp, Georgetown College is bracing for more big crowds and another attendance record upwards of 53,000.

The Georgetown, Ky., school is also sowing the seeds of another one-year extension with the club for the 2008 camp after its most extensive field renovation in years. As the Bengals wait on the results of reseeding one of the fields, Georgetown athletic director Eric Ward is optimistic it will pass muster with Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis and could pave the way for an extension announcement before the team reports July 26.

“I think everyone would like to hammer out an agreement before camp starts and not go into it with such a big question mark hanging,” Ward said Tuesday. “We’ve done everything they’ve asked and hopefully it will sit well with them.”

[b]Although the Bengals have been toying with camping at Paul Brown Stadium the past few years, the current arrangement still seems to be a solid two-way deal. Lewis’ exacting preseason schedule is eased by the convenience of the facilities and the school is looking for another financial success a year after setting camp records for revenue at an estimated $250,000, with $100,000 in parking, $125,000 in concessions, and $35,000 in corporate sponsorships.[/b]

With $40,000 in sponsorships already sold and more sessions than last summer, Ward is expecting at least the same numbers and most likely more than the 53,000 fans that gathered for what amounted to two weeks of workouts.

Because the Bengals’ first two preseason games were in a span of five days last year, Lewis didn’t bring his team back to Georgetown after the opener. After this year’s Aug. 9 opener in Detroit, the camp lasts five more days with six more sessions that include a Monday night workout on Aug. 13.

But with travel to Detroit wiping out three straight days (Aug. 8-10), Wards figures there are probably only three or four more sessions than ’06.

Yet, he knows the crowd will come even though the Bengals didn’t match the 2005 AFC North title and failed to reach the playoffs last year at 8-8.

“There is still a high degree of interest, and there are a lot of marquee names with Marvin, Chad Johnson and (Carson) Palmer,” Ward said. “I don’t expect how last year ended to have much of an impact at all.”

Ward indicated there will be a more experienced mindset when it comes to dealing with the crowds.

“I think we’re just going to be better prepared mentally for it than we were last year,” Ward said. “When 3,000 showed up the morning of the (intrasquad) scrimmage, you just don’t expect that. Now we know, and everyone from our staff and our interns are going to know after going through it.”

What the Bengals needed Georgetown to do this past year had more to do with the one place fans can’t go. They needed to make sure the school supplied three NFL-quality fields.

“There were only two last year, but we were able to get by because camp was shorter,” said Bengals business manager Bill Connelly. “We couldn’t do that this year, and they’ve responded to what we’ve asked. You really need three because you’ve got so many guys and when you see special teams needing a field, the big guys working on the line, and the rehab guys needing a place, the space goes quickly.”

The Bengals asked that the main field at Toyota Stadium be resodded from “fence to fence," and not just in the middle. Georgetown not only did it, but the field adjacent to the stadium was also resodded after it was unusable last year.

Plus, what seems to be the final piece for an extension agreement looks to be growing in strongly on the soccer field above the stadium, which has recently been reseeded with Bermuda grass.

“I wasn’t very optimistic at first. I just didn’t think they’d be able to use it when they first put it down,” Ward said. “But it looks tremendous. The dry weather is exactly what that kind of grass needs. I think Marvin is going to be happy with it.”

And if Lewis is happy …

“They know how we like to operate camp and they work hard to meet our needs,” Connelly said. “The buildings and fields are in convenient locations. It’s close to (Cincinnati), yet it’s far enough away.

“The issue has always been the fields. We’ll get that resolved and there’s an interest in moving forward probably on both parts.”

http://www.cincinnatibengalslive.net/n2.php

[oldschooler]

Has anyone thought that there might be a little more at play here than meets the eye? A few people have said that if the polive department did arrest a Bengals player they wouldn't sit on it for a day. Well if it was the Georgetown, Ky police department, hoe of where the Bengal's training camp is, that could be a little untrue. Think how much money each year Bengal's training camp brings to the town of Georgetown, KY. Also I believe Mike Brown only extended the Bengal's contract with the town for a year or 2, so that means the town is still in negotiations to keep the Bengals their long term...

So if you were the mayor or city manager of some little po-dunk town in Kentucky, and one arrest was about to make you lose your cash cow, what's the chances that heads might get turned the other way...

BTW if it was a Bengals WR caught with weed, it might have been Reggie McNeal too, he was caught with weed in TX already.

Please don`t try to give this BS story legs. It has none. Let it go . . .