Jeff Blake

[MileHighGrowler]

I was 9 or 10 when Blake joined the team, and that was the time I really started to invest myself as a Bengals fan. With so much going wrong in the Blake years for the Bengals, I will admit he offered a little excitement. He wasn't the greatest QB of all time (and as I recall he bounced around to several teams after the Bengals and never did much), but that deep ball was inspirational to any kid playing backyard football and those downfield shots kept some energy in the games. His "glory" years came with the Bengals, but in the decade of bag-headed fans, everyone wanted a single savior and he wasn't it.