8 hours ago
Growing up as a youngster in New York in the 70's my sport teams were settled. Dr. J and the New York Nets of the ABA, the NY Islanders of the NHL,( both these teams played on Long Island NY. Obviously the Yankees, but I liked the Metsies as well(I loved how Bud Harrelson and the Mets beat up Pete Rose and the Reds in the '73 playoffs. 
But football was different, their was no cable tv so all we got stuck with was the lousy Jet and Giants with the rare occasion of seeing out of market teams playing each other on Sunday afternoons.
Enter the Bengals, the rare times I saw the Bengals they were playing at home at Riverfront stadium in their black uniforms with the background of the green astroturf was beautiful to my eyes. I also loved the Oakland Raiders Black uniforms. I don't recall the Steelers black uniforms, maybe I was revolted by the yellow
One day{1974] I was sick and tired of the Jet and Giants games and watched the Oakland Raiders @ The Bengals and I said which ever team won that game I was going to root for. Unfortunately, the Bengals won
and I became a Bengals fan for life. The Raiders had the Bengals number the rest of the 70's including beating them in the 1975 playoffs and beating them on a Monday night where the Raiders already clinched the playoffs and losing to the Bengals would put the Bengals in the playoffs and eliminating the Steelers. The Raiders won and the Steelers entered the playoffs instead of the Bengals. All I heard form the sport annalists were if the game was not a Monday night game and buried on a Sunday afternoon the Raiders would have played different sort of like how the Chiefs got blasted by their rival the Broncos 38-0.
Anyway, had I picked the Raiders I would enjoyed 3 NFL Championships. I did enjoy rooting for the Raiders every time they played the Steelers.
But football was different, their was no cable tv so all we got stuck with was the lousy Jet and Giants with the rare occasion of seeing out of market teams playing each other on Sunday afternoons.
Enter the Bengals, the rare times I saw the Bengals they were playing at home at Riverfront stadium in their black uniforms with the background of the green astroturf was beautiful to my eyes. I also loved the Oakland Raiders Black uniforms. I don't recall the Steelers black uniforms, maybe I was revolted by the yellow
One day{1974] I was sick and tired of the Jet and Giants games and watched the Oakland Raiders @ The Bengals and I said which ever team won that game I was going to root for. Unfortunately, the Bengals won
and I became a Bengals fan for life. The Raiders had the Bengals number the rest of the 70's including beating them in the 1975 playoffs and beating them on a Monday night where the Raiders already clinched the playoffs and losing to the Bengals would put the Bengals in the playoffs and eliminating the Steelers. The Raiders won and the Steelers entered the playoffs instead of the Bengals. All I heard form the sport annalists were if the game was not a Monday night game and buried on a Sunday afternoon the Raiders would have played different sort of like how the Chiefs got blasted by their rival the Broncos 38-0. Anyway, had I picked the Raiders I would enjoyed 3 NFL Championships. I did enjoy rooting for the Raiders every time they played the Steelers.
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