Hardcore Bengals fan moment

[*Awful Llama*]

(01-14-2022, 03:53 PM)MTBengalsFan Wrote: What moment did you remove any doubt how bonkers you were about the Bengals?

For me, I was just divorced and ditched Ohio for Montana. I was traveling from Montana to Idaho with a good buddy and two women. It was January 22nd, 1989. I made clear I would not do the trip if we didn't stop to watch the Super Bowl. The two ladies were pissed, but we stopped in the Challis, Idaho bowling alley in a driving snowstorm to watch the Bengals narrowly lose to the 49ers. There was no other customer in the building, but I made up for it by drinking my fair share of beers. The drive after that game was treacherous to say the least, but I never regretted my decision, only the outcome of the game.

If you add a kidnapping it sounds like the opening scenes from a Coen Brothers movie.  

For me it would have been the first time I walked into PBS as a newly minted STH - August, 2000.  We were playing the Bears in a pre-season game that was the first-ever event to be held at PBS.  They were playing highlights from SBXXIII on the scoreboards, which struck me as strange given the outcome.  Regardless, I knew I had arrived in my fandom that night, the 20+ years before were prologue.