Cincinnati is THE Destination to Win a Ring

[HarleyDog]

(02-21-2022, 12:48 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: Free agents are burning up their agents' cell phones as we speak, saying, "Get me to Cincinnati!"  Experienced quality players want to come to the Queen City for what?  Graeter's?  LaRosa's?  Goetta?  No!  Cincinnati is the most attractive destination to win a Super Bowl in the entire NFL right now and the Front Office should take full advantage of it.

The Bengals -- even with a shitshow offensive line -- nearly won the Super Bowl against the most loaded and stacked team on Planet Earth.  Joe Burrow, given more protection, will be the quarterback face of the NFL for the next fifteen years; I'm convinced Tom Brady retired because he knows he can't hang with Joe. The Bengals feature a suffocating shutdown defense, a generational kicker in Evan McPherson, and skill players who are among the best in the league.

Veterans will beg to come here.  They will come here and take cuts in salary just to play with Joe Burrow and win a ring.  We haven't been here before; not in the modern free agency era anyway.  This is a new thing for the Bengals and now it's time to embrace the winning culture.  

Can you imagine a two tight end set with CJ Uzomah and Rob Gronkowski?  What about Brandon Scherff lining up at right guard?  

I read the OP like James Earl Jones telling Ray that people will come on the movie Field of Dreams.

FIK: Bengalsboard, players will come, Benglesboard.

They'll come to Cincinnati for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up at Paul Brown Stadium, not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at the door as innocent as children, longing for a ring.

"Of course, we won't mind if you look around," we'll say. "It's only twenty dollars per person." They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it. For it is money they have and peace they lack.

And they'll walk out to the bleachers, and sit in shirt-sleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have visions of being somewhere along one of the sidelines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game, and it'll be as if they'd dipped themselves in magic waters. The eagerness to play for Cincinnati will be so thick, they'll have to brush them away from their faces.

FIK: People will come, Benglesboard.

The one constant through all the years, BB, has been Cincinnati football.

This franchise has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But Joe Burrow has marked the time.

This field, this game -- it's a part of our past, BB. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.

Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, BB. People will most definitely come.