08-30-2020, 04:19 PM
(08-30-2020, 04:13 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: I can't believe the season is only two weeks away. With such a strange offseason, and with no pre-season, it still feels like we should be two months out. I know what the calendar says, and what the date is, but it's almost hard to believe we're so close to kickoff.
I can't wait!!! And I think we all fall into the same boat there. We can actually start to have real discussions about real football!
With all of the talk about Covid, and will they play or wont they; will there be fans or not; we can finally move on to something else here on the board.
I'm sure like most of you, my life the last 6 months has been a non-stop barrage of repetitive talking points. Covid, Trump, Biden, George Floyd, Minneapolis, Portland, etc. And that's not to say none of these things aren't important or worthy of discussion. I'm just pointing out that these topics have dominated the discussion pretty much everywhere.
Regardless of whatever your opinion is on any of the above, I think you have to admit that gets to be a bit much. It's like "Alright, I get it already. You think this, I think this, that person thinks this." How many times can we all go around in circles here?
Now I know for quite a few people in this country that football does not serve as entertainment or an escape. But for guys like us on here it does. It's going to be great to have a few hours a week to get back some normalcy from such a chaotic year.
I'll wrap it here. Two weeks can't come soon enough. I'm looking forward to cracking a beer and seeing this new era of the Bengals. I'm looking forward to hearing Al and Chris on Sunday Night Football. I'm looking forward to setting my fantasy lineups. And I'm looking forward to shit talking my buddies (from 6ft away or more) about their crappy ass teams.
T-Minus 336 hours and 47 mintues to kickoff...
Frickin' awesome thread Wes. So excited this year with the new leader and the Free Agency where they actually went out there
and got some great vets in their prime. I don't know what this season will foretell but man that is what makes it even more exciting
than usual. With, Burrow, Reader, Tee, Bynes, Wilson, ADG, Bailey, Alexander, Vonn frickin' Bell, hopefully a healthy AJ Green and
John Ross who wouldn't be excited if you are a Bengal fan?
I think we are in for a cool season and as long as we improve a lot I will be excited for the future which I believe definitely happens.
The sky is the limit.
