12-06-2023, 11:17 AM
When you combine this with the fact that the most watched "Hard Knocks" (at the time, not sure if it holds true) contained the Bengals, and some of the best Super Bowl ratings were games with the Bengals, it doesn't take a rocket scientist, Goodell, to figure it out. People like an underdog to succeed and get tired of watching the same old teams every year.