Why you do?

[Millhouse]

(05-23-2025, 11:23 AM)Clark W Griswold Wrote: Born and raised and still live in Southern California but became a fan because:  I played OT as a kid and the Bengals had the best one, loved the uniforms/helmets and then was a Boomer fan.

Suffered through many bad years and got asked why are you a Bengals fan about a thousand times.  People also would tell me that they had never met a Bengals fan before.

Truth is I have never even been to Ohio but that all changes in Sept. I have tix to the Bengals home opener (also going to the Buckeyes game on Sat).  This is the ultimate bucket list item for me. I saw them play a couple of times years ago vs Chargers in San Diego but going to a Bengals game in Cincy is something I have wanted to do for decades.

Also would love to hear any must-dos in Cincinnati from those who live there.  
(Thanks to BengalsLUFC for sharing some things even though he is far from a local)

Buckeye games are great to go to. Top notch college football atmosphere, way better than NFL games imo, so should be a blast of a weekend for you.

I don't have many must-dos tbh. If anything the Hofbräuhaus across the river in Newport is always popular for out of town folks. It was the 3rd one built I think after the original in Munich Germany, now there are tons of them across country. ALso try a Cincy chili place like Skyline if you haven't had Cincy chili before, maybe just a cheese coney just to say you had one, a when in Rome thing.