Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

[grampahol]

I look at it like I really hope they win it all and if they do I'll be thrilled, but if unforeseen forces push them out of the picture I will pull out the great team motto of "Well, there's always next season!" and hope for the same thing I've hoped for since I was in grade school back when Elvis and the Beatles were still making the headlines. 
I've been following this team since day 1 and not once has their success nor failure changed my life one iota. 
That said,  there's no way to tell . Had they won the SB in 88 I MIGHT HAVE celebrated by going out to buy the winning lottery ticket and parlayed it into a vast fortune which is undoubtedly why my current source of income is social security instead of the vast fortune I passed up on in 1988..  See? I could have been your president and run on the ticket of a chicken in every pot if only the Bengals had won that game, but instead I was selling cable TV door to door that year and ran into Icky Woods while wondering "What's that big ol black dude doing out in this lily white neighborhood?" I knocked on his door anyway and sold him the whole cable package, HBO, Showtime and Cinemax! I never parlayed that sale into a vast fortune. It's all the Bengals fault