Why you do?

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(10 hours ago)jason Wrote: I like ugly uniforms and antiquated ownership and management structures...

I actually was a Los Angeles Raiders fan (Jim Plunkett, Marcus Allen, Lester Hayes era) as a kid, but they weren't as easy to see on TV in the Dayton area as the Bengals. My dad was a Bengals fan and took me to at least one or two games a year at Riverfront. That environment was insane (before the NFL became the bougie corporate environment it is now) for a small child. By the time the 88 super bowl season rolled around I really started following the team, and I'd hear all the Gary Burbank shit on 700. I started drifting to the local team. I lost interest when Wyche and the boys all left. I regained it in college just to be a heel for my college roommates who were all Browns fans... Then the Browns moved and the Bengals were on every week in Columbus. They sucked, but Blake and Pickens were exciting. Rooting for a loser became my passion. Then it started to "pay off" with Carson and Chad... Decades later; here we are.

Riverfront in the '80s was insane. I was at the Raiders game in '82 when Ken Riley had 3 ints, 1 for a pick6 and that was the loudest i've ever heard a crowd at a football game.