Bengals' weight room message goes viral but not in the way the team would like

Naturally, it spread like wildfire on the app and invoked many adjacent reactions.

The jokes write themselves in this case. "Phat" is a known slang word that has a complimentary connotation to it, typically meaning cool or excellent, but it sounds exactly like how it sounds.

Fat. A Bengal is fat with a "ph" instead of an "f." 

Not exactly how you'd want to describe athletes, but here we are.

Outside of the obvious oversight and the criticism for using the noun "TEAMMATE" as an adjective that describes another noun, "BENGAL," my personal favorite observation is how this could've easily been avoided by switching one letter around.

Instead of "A BENGAL IS P.H.A.T.," "BENGALS ARE ON A P.A.T.H." also could've worked.

They aren't just P.H.A.T of course, they are those qualities "WHO WILL GIVE THEIR ALL TO GET THE JOB DONE."

Solid words of wisdom to be sure, but when 'P.H.A.T." is the largest piece of text on the wall, does anything written below it matter? Especially in a room where physical exercise is taking place?

*Tony Romo broadcast voice* I don't know Jim!

Truthfully, this kind of stuff isn't for any of us on the outside to see unless the team itself wants us to see it. If this messaging was approved by the coaching staff and leaves a positive impact on the players who see it, all the power to them.

You'd think a little focus-grouping wouldn't hurt just in case the public eye ever saw it though.