AmishBengalFan

There will be some significant changes to the parking situation east of Paycor while the Brent Spence Companion Bridge Project gets going. The lots north of the practice fields are gone, so no more tailgating under the onramps or near the Bomb Squad. Hamilton County is buying up the Longworth Hall lot which are now ticketed lots - tickets that are only avialable in advance via the Bengals on a season basis only. The Hilltop lot adjacent to the practice bubble nder the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge is supposedly ALSO a County/Bengals lot now, though I need to confirm. Here's the map: Here's the text of Pumkie's email: Adding: On a whim I logged in to TicketBastard to see what availability + pricing looked like. I care so you don't have to.... $300 for Arena Garage (far side of the Coliseum at Taylor Southgate) $350 for CRG East (under GABP) $400 for CRG Mid (under the Banks) $450 for Broadway (across the street from the Coliseum) $475 for CRG West (under that place that sells Belgian Waffles) $500 for Longworth Nothing available in any other lots, including Hilltop. The above is for ten home dates. If parking and NOT tailgaiting is your need, and if you can walk, it still looks to be cheaper to pay $20 park in Covington and walk across once of the bridges. The walk from the Rivercenter Marriott looks to be shorter than Arena Garage, and the $10 you're not paying can help with the first downpayment on the installment plan to buy a stadium beer. That it all

You don't say?

BTW here are the ticket prices in Euros. And no, I don't have a map that correlates where the Categories overlap the stadium, sorry.

Tickets for the Madrid game just went live online for STREAK 40+ members. So if you've had Season Tickets since before the Boomer / Ickey season, you SHOULD have received an email today with an access code. My understanding is that STREAK 25+ folks go at either 3 or 4 today.... there might even be a third tranche of STHs later on. Tickets left over after we pick over the stadium go on sale to the general public sometime in July. If you get early access.... the website is in Spanish. Not every page has an English translation button available. There will be a LOT of "I'm a human" challenges.... I had to go through six or seven. I also had to enter my emailed access code more than once. When you check out, you have to LOG IN to the website. This is NOT a TicketBastard site or a Bengals.Tickets site OR an NFL site, so none of your login info on any of those sites will work. Don't click on the "¿Has olvidado tu contraseña?" link - that will act like it's emailing you your forgotten password, but that email will never come. That's because this is a site you've never been on before, so you have to register (the word for register is in Spanish, no translation option for this page). So if you never took Spanish in highschool, have a tab with Google Translate open and practice cutting and pasting. Lol. Tickets range from E93 to E439. That's roughly $100 to $500 in freedom currency units. The prices are all-in.... all fees and VAT and other nuisance taxes are included. What you're quoted is what you pay. My seats are on the 500 level, midfield (photo below). I paid E180 (US$200) each for them. Four on the aisle, midway up. Lemme know if anyone else is going. If you are, we can hook up and you can meet Isobel and her hubby - they're sitting in two of the seats. :)

Now that Roethlisberger has been out of the NFL for a full league year, you can apparently customize his jersey in a manner that was previously prohibited by the NFL Shop website.

So I guess I just imagined both of my trips to see the Bengals play at Wembley. Lol.

Reposting.... Hamilton County (OH) owns PayCor Stadium, and every few years they replace/upgrade the older furniture in the lounge and suite areas. The Bengal-themed tables and chairs and etc they are replacing are sold at public auction. That auction is tomorrow, 2/14. 10am. Online and in person. https://www.proxibid.com/Nicodemus-Auction-Company/Paycor-Stadium-Suites-Liquidation-Auction/event-catalog/292261

Lol, sucker. Mine were $100 each. I actually had to drive to my Credit Union and get a money order for the princely sum of $203 (the extra $3 being a non-refundable extortion fee) and mail it in with a Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope -SASE. Won the team lottery and got a pair, 2 or 3 rows from the front in the corner section. You're correct in that you didn't know if you got tickets until your SASE showed up in the mailbox - most got a receipt showing that your money was credited toward the 1989 season seats, while a lucky few got two pieces of pretty cardboard. If Kevin charged you $250 then that scoundrel helped himself to your money... ...and my Grinch-like respect for him just grew three sizes larger. :)

As of tomorrow we're all undefeated again. First place Bengals.

(moving this over from the AFC/NFC Championships thread) There’s currently a 66% chance that Collinsworth knob-swallows Patrick Mahomes during Super Bowl LX on Polymarket. They took down the bets on him mentioning the Stealers when nobody was taking the under.

There’s currently a 66% chance that Collinsworth knob-swallows Patrick Mahomes during Super Bowl LX on Polymarket. They took down the bets on him mentioning the Stealers when nobody was taking the under.

I shouldn't get emotional over something as mundane as football, but halfway through my 5th decade as a Bengal season ticket holder, they have been a constant in my life. They have tasted failure more frequently and recently than success, but when success HAS come it has been much needed and came at points in my life where very few other good things were happening. In 2003, after 15 consecutive seasons of losing, of becoming a laughingstock in the NFL, the Bengals hired Marvin Lewis. The team began a renaissance, going 8-8 in his first two seasons before bursting out in 2005 and taking the division with an 11-5 record. The future looked bright, we were relevant again, we were back. This video captures the optimism of those years. Carson. Chad. Rudi. TJ. Marvin. First name basis - names every Bengal fan knows by heart. We know how that story ended - Pittsburgh targeting Carson Palmer's knee with a cheap shot in the playoffs, cheap ownership who refused to invest in personnel and resources to take advantage of the incredible stockpile of talent we had, and a rare opportunity to ascend to the pinnacle of the sport squandered. Yet when I watch this video, I am again filled with hope. And I can't help but feel proud to be a Bengal fan. Enjoy.

On this day - 37 years ago - Sam was going to King's Island. January 8th, 1989 AFC Championship - Bengals v Bills Many of us were at that game. Damn - I miss that man. He needs to be on the Ring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedLbDZhJSM (I've made the video public, published it like all my others, yet I can't get this to show in fullscreen mode here. Click the link, watch on YT, it's glorious)

Annoying Little Brownies - Isobel Hamilton https://isobelhamilton.art

Watching GBP-BAL and in spite of being a fractional owner of the Packers, I'm actually hoping for the Modells to win this. We can't take the North, so I'm rooting for any scenario to keep the bandwagon out. BAL was up 27-14, but they're doing what they always do.....choke. It's now 27-24 late in Q3.