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Underrated former Bengals.
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(07-13-2019, 09:22 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: My favorite Bengal of all-time.  Would never just run out of bounds....lowered his shoulder and POPPED any DB that was running him out of bounds.  Ahead of his time.  A true dual-threat RB.  I think he and Woods BOTH averaged 5.0 YPC in 1988-89

He's my favorite athlete of all time. My father actually got a game-worn James Brooks jersey back in 1987. I still have it today and remind my family that if the house is on fire, I go back in for that jersey first and then for them. I'm kidding. Kinda. 

Side story about James Brooks; a girl I was friends with for years in New Jersey went to University of Cincinnati and got an internship at a radio station. She called me out of the blue one summer and asked me if I knew a bunch of players she listed to me (I did). She said she met them at a restaurant and got me their autographs. One was David Fulcher. He was cut the next day. I may have been the last person he gave an autograph to as a Bengal.

Anyway, the next summer she calls me out of the blue again and asked me if I know James Brooks. I explained to her, in great detail, how he was my all-time favorite Bengal and athlete and that I would seriously think about going gay for him. She said she works with him at some radio show and got me his autograph. I was supposed to fly out to visit her two weeks later and meet him, but I had to cancel. Small world though. 

He never got the credit he deserved IMO. I will say this; most of the Giants/Jets/Eagles fans living around me in NJ in the '80's and 90's always thought he was damn good. 
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Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-08-2019, 09:17 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - jason - 07-08-2019, 09:24 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - grampahol - 07-09-2019, 11:13 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - bfine32 - 07-08-2019, 09:52 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-08-2019, 11:07 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-09-2019, 12:20 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-09-2019, 05:14 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - Mobster - 07-11-2019, 11:55 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - jj22 - 07-09-2019, 09:30 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - Brownshoe - 07-09-2019, 09:38 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - Whatever - 07-09-2019, 09:55 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - Synric - 07-09-2019, 10:03 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-09-2019, 01:37 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - bfine32 - 07-09-2019, 12:21 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-09-2019, 05:33 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - bfine32 - 07-09-2019, 06:24 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - jason - 07-09-2019, 03:56 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - sandwedge - 07-09-2019, 10:59 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - grampahol - 07-09-2019, 11:15 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - sandwedge - 07-09-2019, 05:17 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-09-2019, 12:28 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-09-2019, 12:51 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - Mobster - 07-11-2019, 11:57 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-12-2019, 10:31 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - HuDey - 07-12-2019, 12:28 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-12-2019, 12:37 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - HuDey - 07-12-2019, 10:26 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-12-2019, 12:40 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - NKURyan - 07-10-2019, 10:04 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - NKURyan - 07-11-2019, 01:40 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - J24 - 07-11-2019, 01:47 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-12-2019, 01:17 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - SHRacerX - 07-13-2019, 09:21 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - J24 - 07-11-2019, 01:49 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - Goalpost - 07-11-2019, 03:28 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-11-2019, 06:59 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - bfine32 - 07-11-2019, 07:03 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - SHRacerX - 07-13-2019, 09:22 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - BengalFanInNJ - 07-13-2019, 01:04 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - SHRacerX - 07-14-2019, 11:10 AM
Underrated former Bengals. - Storer50 - 07-11-2019, 04:16 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - jj22 - 07-11-2019, 04:08 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-11-2019, 07:06 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - kevin - 07-12-2019, 01:51 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - Jason_NC - 07-12-2019, 07:20 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-12-2019, 12:54 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - jason - 07-12-2019, 01:51 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-12-2019, 02:27 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - SHRacerX - 07-13-2019, 09:25 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - SHRacerX - 07-13-2019, 09:34 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-16-2019, 02:04 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - SHRacerX - 07-17-2019, 09:08 AM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - Go Cards - 07-13-2019, 12:40 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - fredtoast - 07-14-2019, 11:05 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - NKURyan - 07-15-2019, 07:18 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - jason - 07-15-2019, 08:25 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - bfine32 - 07-15-2019, 08:44 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - jason - 07-15-2019, 08:56 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - NKURyan - 07-15-2019, 09:42 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - BoomerFan - 07-16-2019, 02:40 PM
RE: Underrated former Bengals. - sonofstat - 07-17-2019, 09:53 AM

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