I didn't think I'd cry...

[Nicomo Cosca]

(01-17-2022, 10:46 PM)samhain Wrote: I can't say I cried. I expected them to win this game, and I was jumping around and screaming with everyone else in the stadium, but not quite moved to tears.

I will say though, I got a little choked up in week 1 vs the Vikings. When Burrow threw the first official Chase bomb and connected for 6, it all really started to set in for me that this thing might just be real. I turned to my buddy who I have season tickets with and said to him: "This changes everything for this team."

I drove to Morgantown WV two weeks before and listened to a dude rail on the Bengals for taking Chase. I listened to the betting analyst call the pregame show and belittle the pick to Ken Broo and tell him how Chase couldn't catch anything.

That first long bomb opened up the idea that really big things were possible for this team.

My favorite was Mike Tannenbaum saying the Bengals should be kicked out of the league for taking Chase. Preferring Sewell (or whoever) was always one thing, but it was the over the top crap like that that makes the year Chase is having even more satisfying.