The Battle of The Bastards

[The Gipper]

The Battle of The Bastards

Taken from a Game of Thrones episode. This should be the eponym of any game that is played between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Baltimore Ravens.

These teams are the disjecta smegma of the Cleveland Browns....created out of hubris, resentment, betrayal.

Now, this week, we have the Bengals vs. the Steelers. While this game is not The Battle of the Bastards, it would be more like a battle between Ramsey Bolton and Cersei Lannister (to carry out the GOT analogy). A game between two truly despicable entities.

[BrownsnMopar]

What is game of thrones!???

[The Gipper]

@brownsnmopar said:

What is game of thrones!???

It is where you do your crossword puzzle while taking a shit.

[mjp28]

Cincinnati v Baltimore

Battle of the former spouses, doesn't get much messier. Who do you root against more?

[Bob806]

@mjp28 said:

Cincinnati v Baltimore

Battle of the former spouses, doesn't get much messier. Who do you root against more?

Easy....Ratbirds I hate more

[The Gipper]

@mjp28 said:

Cincinnati v Baltimore

Battle of the former spouses, doesn't get much messier. Who do you root against more?

Not former spouses. Bastards. Both literally and figuratively.

[The Gipper]

@bob806 said:

Easy....Ratbirds I hate more

Check. At least Modell only ran PB out of town. Modell ran himself out of town...and created the shitstorm we have now.

[DieHardBrownsFan]

@bob806 said:

Easy....Ratbirds I hate more

Me too. Although I dislike them all, Cincinnati would be least hated of the three.

[flyingfooldoug]

I'm pulling for the crash cart

[The Gipper]

@flyingfooldoug said:

I'm pulling for the crash cart

You mean the meat wagon? Yes, that is always where my sentiments lie when our AFCN counterparts play each other.

[The Gipper]

[D Bone]

A Game of Thrones's bastards comparison... well done.

[gumby73]

@the-gipper said:

You mean the meat wagon? Yes, that is always where my sentiments lie when our AFCN counterparts play each other.

Takes a rapist to give a cart girl a black eye..Them not Zoey's

[flyingfooldoug]

@the-gipper said:

You mean the meat wagon? Yes, that is always where my sentiments lie when our AFCN counterparts play each other.

Go MRI!

[The Cysko Kid]

As far as I know the Cleveland Browns is the only team that's given birth to half it's own division.

[StinkHole]

@the-cysko-kid said:

As far as I know the Cleveland Browns is the only team that's given birth to half it's own division.

The most pure, untarnished team in the division are those stainless Steelers.lol

[StinkHole]

I cant bring myself to wish an opposing player gets hurt and carted off...probably because I have no reason to be bitter I guess.

[mjp28]

@the-gipper said:

Not former spouses. Bastards. Both literally and figuratively.

Former spouses could be bastards too.

Still what a legacy!

[The Gipper]

@stinkhole said:

The most pure, untarnished team in the division are those stainless Steelers.lol

The Ravens never used to be the Browns. But they were spawned by the Browns.

[The Gipper]

@stinkhole said:

I cant bring myself to wish an opposing player gets hurt and carted off...probably because I have no reason to be bitter I guess.

I don't really wish it either...its just smack talk. But it doesn't make me regretful when it happens merely because so many Browns players have had that happen to them. So its just a matter of equity.