Ring of honor

[Clark W Griswold]

(04-08-2021, 02:18 PM)Roland Wrote: It will be interesting to see how exclusive the Bengals want this club to be.  Four inductees makes sense in the first year or two because there's a lot of time to make up for.  But unless you want to fill the whole ring pretty quickly it seems like you have to scale back to one or two a year.

The Bengals have a FAQ that says a little about this.  

https://www.bengals.com/team/ring-of-honor/faq



So besides Brown and Munoz, the initial inductees should have a reasonable claim for being worthy of the Pro Football HOF.  That's:

Ken Anderson
Ken Riley
Willie Anderson
Chad Johnson

If you include players who padded out their HOF credentials with other teams then add Corey Dillon.  

Then I think you start adding in people who had great careers with the Bengals who would probably be getting more of a HOF look if the Bengals could have just scored a Super Bowl win.

Sam Wyche
Boomer Esiason
Isaac Curtis
Lemar Parrish

Then you can add some people who are special to the team and its fans.

Forrest Greg
Bob Trumpy
Chris Collinsworth
Tim Krumrie
Reggie Williams
David Fulcher
Max Montoya
Dave Lapham

This a pretty good break down of potential nominees.

I think this means Geno gets the honor after he retires because he is going to be a HOFer.

I also think Whitworth should be added to the last tier.