As if things couldn’t get worse for pro sports’ worst franchise.

According to The Cincinnati Enquirer, a guy named Randy Reed went to Sunday’s 38-10 Steelers debacle and, for lack of a better term, got sucker-punched by a Pittsburgh fan and knocked out. It’s made some big news, and the franchise’s response? No surprise: It’s sucked: Team offered him tickets to ANOTHER game.

Yes, the one that’s 0-7 and starting a biology professor at MIT at quarterback. Please, someone kill us.

Reed, 48, said he was “bantering” with Steelers fans (we’re assuming it was a bit more, but that’s his term), and got into an argument about Mike Brown (yes, apparently there’s one guy left defending king bozo).

“I said, ‘Yeah, well, at least he’s not selling the team,” Reed told The Enquirer. “You guys are going to be the LA Steelers!”. (We’ll again ignore the likelyhood of the latter part of the statement to finish the story).

Reed said the next thing he remembered was waking up in a security office covered in blood with a broken wrist in a cast, and other various cuts and bruises. The person or persons left, somehow eluding the vision of all 65,000 people at the game (perhaps all who’d drunk themselves silly watching the joke of a football contest).

Reed was at the game with his wife and 23-year-old step daughter, but the two were in the bathroom when all this happened. The article didn’t address whether Reed (or anyone else involved) was drinking, so we’ll leave that to your imagination. No one’s been arrested yet.

Bengals’ business director Bob Bedinghaus (who was basically a 1-man wrecking crew in getting Cincinnati its new stadium before being drummed out of the Hamilton County Commission) called Reed to apologize and offer him four skybox tickets to any future game (yes, the blood dries quicker in the A/C). Of course, the Bengals said nothing about paying Reed’s future medical bills from the incident.

Later, Bedinghaus talked to WCKY 1530-AM about whether the team owner, who does his best ostrich impression this time of year, would talk about the incident.

“Mike Brown doesn’t comment on these kinds of things,” Bedinghaus told them.

To be fair, Brown never speaks about anything. But when you’re 0-7, in a horrendous economy, your star quarterback on the shelf, no light anywhere near any tunnel, and you have THIS kind of story, perhaps, at the very least, you should release a statement.

Of course, what do we know? Not like you’ve had 17 non-winning seasons in 18 years.