Why you do?

[Millhouse]

I'm an 80's and Cincy suburb kid so grew up more with the Reds & Bengals as my teams. My best and only memories I really have from the 80's was the 88 Super Bowl highlighted with Jennings return td. Just a kid that would have rather shot hoops with friends or outside stuff or video games instead of watching Bengals games during the fall.

By time I was going into high school, Mike Brown took over the team. And at that point in time sports and girlfriends was my life during high school, and the Bengals took a backseat as they were terrible.

Then when there was a ray of light under Mike Brown with Blake and Pickens rainbow bombs, I was going into college. So Bengals took a massive backseat those years to say the least lol. I mean, it's college, who had time for those Bengals teams back then when living on a campus lol.

So really by time Marvin took over, I was pretty much rock bottom with the Bengals, I could just have cared less. But Marvin and Carson got me excited to come back as a fan, and that is when I started to follow them in earnest. But never a die-hard either like season passes and all that, though I was out of area too.

Anyways that's my fandom journey in a nutshell, unfortunately a lot of it centers around Mike Brown owning the team which is where my cynicism with them comes from. I have a couple of memories seeing Paul Brown as little kid going up to Wilmington training camps with my grandpa, but thats about it from that era. This was Kenny and me sometime in the early 80s after a training camp practice.