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Pete Rose’s father played for the Bengals - OBX Bengal - 06-24-2016
This is Pete Rose weekend and Chick Ludwig filled in for Mo today on ESPN1530. One of the callers mentioned the connection between Pete Rose’s father and the Cincinnati Bengals:
“Harry Francis (Pete) Rose began working for the Fifth-Third Union Trust Bank as a messenger when he was 15. He eventually became assistant cashier, laboring over figures for so many hours that he developed frequent headaches. He played Sunday baseball and football, and was a member of the original Cincinnati Bengals football club of the late 1930s, a semiprofessional team that played in the tough Ohio-Kentucky league. "Pete's dad was quite an athlete," recalls Whitey Willenborg, a former teammate of the father's and a business partner of the son's. "It sounds funny to say it, but he had the instincts of an O.J. Simpson."
http://www.si.com/vault/1975/12/22/616718/sportsman-of-the-year
RE: Pete Rose’s father played for the Bengals - Benton - 06-24-2016
Cool. I didn't think these Bengals were connected to those though.
RE: Pete Rose’s father played for the Bengals - OBX Bengal - 06-24-2016
(06-24-2016, 07:18 PM)Benton Wrote: Cool. I didn't think these Bengals were connected to those though.
I admit it is marginal, but Paul Brown did choose the name because of that team.