11-06-2021, 04:10 PM
I also want to add how BIG the Battle For Ohio started. They had a preseason game at The Horseshoe, Ohio State Stadium in Columbus. The Ohio State Band performed and did Script Ohio. At Halftime BOB HOPE took a break from entertaining the Troops in Vietnam and entertained The Bengals and Browns Fans. American Legend BOB HOPE who had grown up near Cleveland and had once been a major owner of The Cleveland Indians. That's how BIG The Battle For Ohio started. It was a great Battle from 1970 to 1990. Then it fell apart into a second rate game. Sunday November 7th, 2021, with Play-Offs on the line for both teams, THE BATTLE FOR OHIO returns to the high level it had in the 1970's and 1980's......OH...IO.....It's been a long wait of decades. Let the younger fans now see how good this can be when both teams are in The Play Off Hunt.
Sunday we don't have to sing, " Hey Ho, where'd you go, Ohio " , by The Pretenders. The Battle of OHIO is BACK in Full Glory as days of old. We have had to suffer the slings and arrows that the ONLY good AFC North games is Steelers vs Ravens for 2 decades. Let the word go forth that The Battle For Ohio IS BACK in full glory, play-offs on the line, OH-IO.
Many of you too young to know the hit laid on Pat McInally in 1981 as he caught the ball as a WR. Bengals players and Fans called it a cheap hit. Browns players and fans called it a good hit. That McInally was also Bengals punter getting hurt added to it, but then again he was in as a WR, and there were few rules on clocking pass catchers unlike today. That one play seemed to explode the hate both teams of players had, these teams did not like each other. I mention this one play to the younger fans because besides both Paul Brown and Forrest Gregg fired by Art Modell, this McNally Hit threw fuel on the fire for the 1980's, back when The Battle For Ohio was for PLAY-OFFS, not Last Place. Good to see Sunday it is back to being for Play-Offs. The Bengals and Browns disliked each other so much in the 1980's, that they said they hated being on the same team with each other in the Pro Bowl Game.
Sunday we don't have to sing, " Hey Ho, where'd you go, Ohio " , by The Pretenders. The Battle of OHIO is BACK in Full Glory as days of old. We have had to suffer the slings and arrows that the ONLY good AFC North games is Steelers vs Ravens for 2 decades. Let the word go forth that The Battle For Ohio IS BACK in full glory, play-offs on the line, OH-IO.
Many of you too young to know the hit laid on Pat McInally in 1981 as he caught the ball as a WR. Bengals players and Fans called it a cheap hit. Browns players and fans called it a good hit. That McInally was also Bengals punter getting hurt added to it, but then again he was in as a WR, and there were few rules on clocking pass catchers unlike today. That one play seemed to explode the hate both teams of players had, these teams did not like each other. I mention this one play to the younger fans because besides both Paul Brown and Forrest Gregg fired by Art Modell, this McNally Hit threw fuel on the fire for the 1980's, back when The Battle For Ohio was for PLAY-OFFS, not Last Place. Good to see Sunday it is back to being for Play-Offs. The Bengals and Browns disliked each other so much in the 1980's, that they said they hated being on the same team with each other in the Pro Bowl Game.
1968 Bengal Fan
