A Toast to the Old Guard

[MTBengalsFan]

The first game I attended was in 1972 against the Baltimore Colts, who had some QB in his final years by the name of Unitas. My cousin was the education curator at the Cincinnati Zoo and he snuck me on the truck carrying Benzoo, the Bengal tiger into Riverfront Stadium. I was on the field the whole game and recall thinking how damned big those players were as they went by me on the field. I've been a fan since I was six and the Bengals began their existence. I still have a football (white leather, signed with orange pen...of course) signed by the entire team in 1970 and gifted to me by that same cousin.

It's been too long since the Bengals won a game in the playoffs. It's time. Don't let me down boys!