Why you do?

[MTBengalsFan]

In the summer of '70 (I was 8) my parents took me to a "Meet the Bengals" event. Chip Myers was there, and I can still recall his lesson "you try to catch the ball from Virgil Carter with your chest you're likely to end up with a hole the size of a football. You need to catch the ball with your hands, like this."

Al Beauchamp was another I recall being there, and at the time, he seemed huge. Then I got to on the field to watch the Bengals play the Colts, in 1972. Some guy named Unitas was their old QB. (At the time my 2nd cousin was given responsibility for Benzoo, the Bengal tiger so he snuck me in the back of the truck transporting the tiger from the zoo.)

I was hooked as a fan!