Steelers Fan Adds Injury to Insult at Cincy Game

It’s not fun being a Bengals fan right now. It’s bad enough that your team is winless, but you have Carson Palmer on the brink of reconstructive surgery, your head coach laughin’ it up at each Monday press conference when, clearly, nothing is funny about this season, and Chad Johnson is still on your team. ↵↵So, not surprisingly, fans started unloading their tickets for the rest of the season last week. And if the horrible product on the field is already starting to drive away fans, stories like Randy’s won’t help. ↵

↵↵See, Randy -- pictured after the game in that blurry photo -- is a lifelong Bengals fan who took his daughter to her first ever football game, along with his wife, on Sunday. Some might consider this child and/or spousal abuse, but that’s another story. The family was having a super awesome day of tailgating, playing corn hole, watching their team get ripped to shreds by the Steelers ... and then this happened: ↵

↵↵⇥My wife and daughter went to the restroom. The [Steelers fan] directly behind me kept going on about Mike Brown and I finally said, “At least he isn’t selling our team. You guys might end up the LA Steelers.” I never turned around once or confronted anyone. It was just banter during the game. Let’s face it, it’s pretty hard to come up with anything to defend this franchise currently. Besides this wasn’t a fan on the losing side they were well on there way to victory. ↵⇥↵⇥The next thing I know I felt a crushing blow to the side of my face. I fell, not really sure where since it knocked me out. I woke up in the security office with my face being attended to. I was covered in blood and my face was a mess. When I fell I must have hit a railing and went face first to the concrete stairs. I have a broken wrist and a bruised knee. ↵⇥

↵↵Oh sweet irony. Randy got beat up for defending the owner of a team that has been emotionally beating down Randy for years. But on the bright side, I’m sure his daughter wasn’t scarred at all from her first football game.↵