01-14-2022, 07:36 PM
(01-14-2022, 05:54 PM)magikod Wrote: Right around 2002-2003 is when I starting getting interested.
I started playing FB in middle school, would watch Bengals games with my dad, etc.
Then the 2005 season was a turning point from just being a casual fan, to becoming almost addicted to them lol.
Only sport I follow religiously lol. Root for the Buckeyes as well, but I am way more of a Bengals fan.
-magikod
This is nearly my exact story. I started really getting into football around 2005 and Carson/Chad/T.J./Rudi really sucked me in. I remember in 2007, the Bengals lost to the Browns 51-45 in an insane shootout against Derek Anderson and Jamal Lewis. I was so upset I just went outside and sat in the grass. I was 14 that year. My fandom only became more and more deep from there. I will say, I am a bigger fan than I was in 2016 but my perspective has shifted. That WC game broke me as a fan. I was so, so crushed. So, I am a bigger fan but not as fanatical. I don't have as many emotional swings in games anymore.
