To Both Packers and Bengals, "Child, Please!"

Yes, Chad Ochocinco got his Lambeau Leap into the loving arms of orange-and-black clad Bengals fans.

But the famous act he committed isn't the most critical Ochocinco-produced theme coming from today's 31-24 Packers loss to his Cincinnati Bengals.

It's the words "Child, please."

Those words could have been uttered who knows how many times today, at both teams.

A sampling:

1) "Child, please," both teams, for committing 24 penalties.

As I blogged about, so many penalties were committed, so many flags thrown, that there may not be enough fabric out there to make Brazilian flags after this contest.

I'm not sure there was a penalty in the NFL rule book they didn't call, and deservedly so.

So what if Ed Hochuli's crew calls the game tight. This wasn't tight. This was a pair of pre-puberty jeans that a 30-year-old would try to fit in to. You can't call a game so tight that 24 penalties happen.

This was just sloppy.

2) "Child, please," Packers' offensive line, for not being able to contain Antwan Odom.

Allen Barbre doing what he did in allowing Ogunleye last week to dominate is one thing.

To allow Odom to commit five sacks is simply unconscionable. That's the fault of not only the recently-injured Daryn Colledge, who was often the target of Odom's monstrous rushes.

This was the fault of a patchwork but still NFL-caliber line which is proving to offer more reason to get Mark Tauscher on the phone and fast.

3) "Child, please," entire Green Bay rushing defense.

I am looking at the stat sheet of today's game and feel sick.

How in the world can the Packers allow Cedric Benson, a Bears reject, run for 141 yards?

I think of his 29 carries, I can count a handful that were less than five yards. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it just seems that way, after I kept seeing him pound for five, six, nine yards on a super-consistent basis.

This 3-4 defense was supposed to contain the run, but admittedly, Cincinnati goes against the 3-4 scheme more than half the season, so they may know a little more than most teams on how to block it.

Still, Cedric Benson, 141 yards? He looked like he was back at Texas running up the score on Baylor.

You can't contain the run, you can't win most of the time in this league.

4) "Child, please," Packers fan that flipped the bird to the camera right where Ochocinco did his Lambeau Leap.

CBS now has gained a reputation for showing R-rated content on its NFL broadcasts.

First, Janet Jackson's wardrobe "malfunction." Now, that dude right next to Ochocinco in Bengals' fans arms.

I was looking right at him when "Ocho" did his leap. It seemed like he was going to at least support him up so he didn't hurt himself when coming down.

Then, I saw the bird.

Talk about lack of class, something I absolutely believe is NOT representative of Packers fans.

This isn't Philadelphia, where there's a jail to send the umpteen (not majority, mind you, but umpteen) unruly fans who act up at Lincoln Financial.

This isn't Chicago, where fans told Saints-lovers during the 2006 NFC Championship Game "Let's finish what Katrina started."

Whoever you are, you just gave NFL nation an unfairly rotten view of Packers fans who, the huge majority of the time, act with the class that defines the franchise.

If I'm the Packers organization, I would find where that fan was sitting and remove their season ticket rights.

5) Finally, "child, please," offensive lineman who committed a false start on the final play that cost the Packers the game.

It doesn't matter that it's the final moments and the rush of adrenaline that happens there.

You have to keep your head.

Even if Rodgers would have downed the ball, it's possible time would have remained, or if it would have been a fake snap-down, he could have thrown a game-tying fade pattern in the corner of the end zone to a receiver who probably would have beaten a defensive back that wasn't prepared.

You, the run defense, the other penalties, the lack of pass protection, all those things cost the Packers the game.

And that one particular fan may cost the Packers - a class-filled organization - a whole lot of good reputation.

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