{"id":719445,"date":"2026-01-31T16:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/719445\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:37:11","slug":"bengals-celebrity-fan-releases-song-asking-mike-brown-to-sell-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/719445\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals celebrity fan releases song asking Mike Brown to sell team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 31, 2026, 9:32 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> angered (or caused a tidal wave of indifference) with plenty of fans with the decision to run it back with Zac Taylor and Duke Tobin in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">One of those fans was singer Nick Lachey, a Cincinnati native and former member of 98 Degrees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Lachey decided to take it one step further than disgruntled fans on social media, though, by releasing a song called &#8220;Sell &#8216;Em Mike Brown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The song:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">RELATED:<a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/01\/18\/bengals-draft-outlook-last-10-picks-10-overall\/88238011007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals draft outlook: The last 10 picks at No. 10 overall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In the song, Lachey name-drops certain <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cincinnati-bengals\/327\" data-autotag=\"6d3e484d-5133-4c06-a871-967f8646390b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Bengals<\/a> quarterbacks: &#8220;In the name of Joe Burrow, won&#8217;t you take your billions and go,&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ve got Boomer on the phone, he wants you to leave Cincinnati alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Lachey has used his platform for years to be outspoken about the Bengals. After the team announced the retention of Zac Taylor earlier this month, he wrote a big message on social media that included this: &#8220;This ownership doesn\u2019t care. They don\u2019t care about you, they don\u2019t care about me, and they don\u2019t care about the city of Cincinnati which we all love dearly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">RELATED:<a href=\"http:\/\/bengalswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bengals\/2026\/01\/17\/bengals-players-regressed-most-orlando-brown-andrei-iosvias\/88222214007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bengals players who regressed the most in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 31, 2026, 9:32 a.m. ET The Cincinnati Bengals angered (or caused a tidal wave of indifference) with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[95878,228,227,256,2296,7,6,4779,13078,95905,95882,97231,95913,96121,95895,95897,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-719445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-oh","16":"tag-sstssportsnflbengals","17":"tag-sstsnbengals","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagcincinnati","20":"tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","21":"tag-tagjoe-burrow","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-negative","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115990695505959182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}