Worst Owner in the NFL?

• OhioStatePride2003

  With Mike Browns comments yesterday about Carson Palmer, Bengal fans have to be shaking their heads. While they're not going to get any sympathy from Browns fans - ahem, Art Modell - maybe Raider Nation can relate? In my opinion, Art Modell will forever be the worst owner in NFL history for obvious reasons (Browns fan). But if you had to pick a team to play for, and your choices were the Raiders with Al Davis or the Bengals with Mike Brown, who would you chose? Or, is there more dispicable owners out there? Maybe Dan Synder and the Washington Redskins? What say you?
• Heretic

  

  Snyder (megalomaniac meddler who throws money around with no actual thought), Brown (cheap idiot) and Davis (batshit insane) could all be number one on this list. Mainly depends on what day of the week it is and which one did the most recent mindboggling thing.
• Al Bundy

  OhioStatePride2003;843402 wrote:With Mike Browns comments yesterday about Carson Palmer, Bengal fans have to be shaking their heads. While they're not going to get any sympathy from Browns fans - ahem, Art Modell - maybe Raider Nation can relate? In my opinion, Art Modell will forever be the worst owner in NFL history for obvious reasons (Browns fan). But if you had to pick a team to play for, and your choices were the Raiders with Al Davis or the Bengals with Mike Brown, who would you chose? Or, is there more dispicable owners out there? Maybe Dan Synder and the Washington Redskins? What say you?

  
  I would do what the players do and just go to the biggest contract. So, I would probably go to the one who is most likely to overpay me, which would be Snyder.
• wes_mantooth

  

  Al Davis.
  
  look closely at his hilarious shenanigans over the last few years....
  
  My recent favorite is when he drafted that kid in the 2nd or 3rd round because he had a cool youtube video.
• wildcats20

  

  Al Davis.
  
  Everyone else is good compared to him.
• Azubuike24

  

  Al Davis and Mike Brown are up there.
  
  There is incompetence and then there is a whole other level that combines incompetence, losing and ridiculousness all in one. I mean not only do the Bengals have issues in the front-office (being cheap, unable to sign draft picks on time, inadequate research/medical staffing) and on the field (more than normal discipline issues, internal issues between ownership and players), they had issues with the fans and the city over tickets and the stadium lease. It's just a train-wreck on all levels, and despite having that "feeling" that makes you really love a team, it makes it very hard to support the way they do business.
  
  A lot of similar issues exist with the Raiders.
• Classyposter58

  

  The Raiders easily...they literally do nothing with any sense at all
• Pick6

  

  1. Davis
  2. Brown
  3. Snyder
• Little Danny

  

  MB and it is not even close.
  
  Mike Brown's lack of success:
  
  Since Brown became owner in August 1991, the team has had only 2 winning seasons out of 20 and has a winning percentage of 36.1 % (115-204-1) in the regular season and 00.0 % (0-2) in the playoffs. By contrast, the lowly Detroit Lions had a winning percentage of 37.8% (121-199).
  
  In 2008, the Bengals set a record for the most games needed under one specific owner to attain 100 wins (288 games over 16+ years).
  
  In 2010, the team set a record for the least games needed to lose 200 (both considering and not considering playoffs) under one specific owner (314 games over 18+ years).
  
  
  The Bengals hold a number of distinctions for the time frame of Mike Brown's ownership:
  
  -- It is the only team with three nine-game-or-more losing streaks.
  
  -- It also holds six of the twenty-five 0-6 starts (24%).
  
  -- It holds four of the thirteen 0-8 starts (31%) in that time.
  
  
  The Bengals have gone winless in October eight different times in twenty years under five different head coaches hired by Mike Brown. The most successful coach during Mike Brown's tenure is current coach Marvin Lewis with a 46.5 % winning percentage (60-69-1).
• rightfield

  ^^^^ Now those are some mean stats. Well done. Unfortunately for Mike Brown, there will be dancing in the streets when he dies. Unfortunately for Bengal fans, winning isn't on the "top 10 list of things to do" for Mike Brown.
• se-alum

  

  To be fair, Al Davis wasn't a bad owner until he started losing his mind. Brown and Snyder are of sound mind and body, and they're still terrible.
• like_that

  

  se-alum;844258 wrote:To be fair, Al Davis wasn't a bad owner until he started losing his mind. Brown and Snyder are of sound mind and body, and they're still terrible.

  
  This. He is just old and honestly isn't all there imo. I don't see how anyone can make him out to be THAT bad. He has 3 SB titles, and the team played in a SB in 2003. That is a hell of a lot more than what most teams can say. I would take that any day with the Browns.
• Y-Town Steelhound

  

  The obvious all-time answer is Art Modell, but as for currently I'd have to give Mike Brown the nod over Al Davis....at least Al Davis has rings
• THE4RINGZ

  

  I would agree with Dan Snyder.
• hasbeen

  

  It's not fair to pick on Al Davis. I'd like to see how all of you would manage ANYTHING after you've died.
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  Davis at least won, for looong time.
  
  Modell? Mikey would move the Bengals to Bejing for enough money, and Davis has moved the Raiders twice (and may yet again).
  
  Mikey is clueless - he'd make a great grocery store manager in , say, North Colllege Hill. Unfortunately for us Bengals fans, he was born into the Bengals ownership.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Modell isn't an owner anymore either so that isn't a valid answer.
  
  1. Brown
  2. Snyder
  3. Davis
• baseball4

  

  Mike Brown may be an awful owner, but with him putting Palmer in his place he earned a lot of respect from me. I hate when players bitch and get their way. The NFL isn't USC, he can cry all the way to his damn couch.
  
  The ONLY thing that would make this better is if Mike Brown traded Palmer's younger brother to a championship caliber team and he got a ring. I'd LOL....
• said_aouita

  

  Mike Brown is by far the worse. Two winning seasons in 20 years? How can anyone accept this?
  I feel sorry for Bengal fans.
  
  I'd much rather have Dan Synder as the owner then Mike Brown.
• Little Danny

  

  Another notch in Brown's belt is his inability to keep CS Jonathan Joseph. Brown should have put the franchise tag on his star corner but instead the guy got away to Houston.
  
  Edit: I just read the Bengals re-signed Jordan Palmer.
• OhioStatePride2003

  Little Danny;846181 wrote:Another notch in Brown's belt is his inability to keep CS Jonathan Joseph. Brown should have put the franchise tag on his star corner but instead the guy got away to Houston.
  
  Edit: I just read the Bengals re-signed Jordan Palmer.

  
  I'm almost convinced they traded Ochocinco to try and lure Carson Palmer "out of retirement". LoL
• said_aouita

  

  Mike Brown does not trade Palmer because of being under contract. Wasn't Chad Ocho' still under contract?