01-15-2022, 12:43 PM
I've been watching for 40 years now. First game I saw was Bills-Bengals playoff game in 81/82 season when I was 6 and I've been a fan ever since. I pretty much had to follow them in Sports Illustrated and the newspaper until the 88 season when they were on TV more.
Things started to take a turn for the worse in the 90's and I rarely saw the Bengals on TV, except on ESPN Primetime highlights listening to Berman cut them to pieces every week (I still hate that guy for that). I think it was around 94 when I found internet radio and started listening to the game on 1360 Homer radio. Those were the days! I think I got more excited listening and using my imagination then I ever did watching the game.
In 1997, my local sports bar gets the NFL Ticket, Boomer comes back and wins all those games and retires. Fast forward another 7 years and Palmer saves the franchise. Then the Dalton years and now Burrow. Been a hell of a ride all these years, but I sure would like to see us come out on top. Just once.
Maybe today will be the start of that. I can only hope.
Things started to take a turn for the worse in the 90's and I rarely saw the Bengals on TV, except on ESPN Primetime highlights listening to Berman cut them to pieces every week (I still hate that guy for that). I think it was around 94 when I found internet radio and started listening to the game on 1360 Homer radio. Those were the days! I think I got more excited listening and using my imagination then I ever did watching the game.
In 1997, my local sports bar gets the NFL Ticket, Boomer comes back and wins all those games and retires. Fast forward another 7 years and Palmer saves the franchise. Then the Dalton years and now Burrow. Been a hell of a ride all these years, but I sure would like to see us come out on top. Just once.
Maybe today will be the start of that. I can only hope.
"Our offensive line is going to surprise a lot of people" - Mike Brown (7-26-21)
