What is your earliest Bengals memory?

[Roland]

It was probably in 1971 at a church dinner where they showed a video about the Bengals' 1970 season and how great it was that they'd made the playoffs in only their third year.  I was 10 years old and when I played flag football the following fall I really wanted the "Bengals" team to pick me but instead I went to the "Bears."

Then I remember really wanting to get the Bengals miniature helmet out of the gumball machines that had them at the grocery store.  Never managed to get it until my parents got me the whole AFC set out of the Sears catalog.



It wasn't until 1975 that I started trying to follow all the games. A lot of times I had to listen on the radio. I remember listening to a night game with Phil Samp doing play by play as I tried and failed to stay awake.