09-20-2016, 09:16 PM
(09-20-2016, 08:00 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: As a kid, and again as a young man, I watched the Bengals play in SuperBowls that I thought that they should have won. I'm sure that I'll live to see it again.
I used to think that way. After SB XXIII, the single-worst sports-related gut punch in my lifetime, I figured it was just a matter of time until they climbed that mountain a third time and we finally hoisted the Lombardi. Amazing how 27 years of futility will change a man's perspective.
Now, middle-aged and with more yesterdays behind me than tomorrows in front of me, I'm left only with the slightest glimmer of hope, that one day, a QB yet to be drafted into the NFL, led by a Head Coach whose name I may not even know, will bring a championship to Cincinnati and a parade to Fountain Square.
Someday. Maybe.
But, for the record, I answered 'no.'