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Like he wasn't THE major hindrance to a "winning culture" last year in Cincinnati. 🙄

Indeed it is, in 1992 against the Rams in Anaheim. The Bengals held the top overall pick in 1984 and could've taken him, but traded the pick to the Patriots for their 16th and 28th overall picks, which they used on DE Pete Koch and OT Brian Blados. Fryar got his "revenge" (if you want to call it that) in 1988 when the 2-4 Patriots beat the 6-0 Bengals. I seem to recall him dancing on the sideline while twirling a towel over his head at the end of that game, so I wondered if he may have held a grudge of sorts. Who knows, maybe not. The Bengals also had the 7th overall pick in that 1984 draft, that they used on LB Rickey Hunley. So two Top 7 picks turned into three first-round picks. Hunley refused to play for the Bengals and they traded him to Denver before the season even started. Koch played one season and got no sacks. Blados was okay but nothing special.

Oh, I agree. As fans we make the mistake of assuming that, since they wear the uniform, that they have the same passion for the franchise that we do. Very often, it's just a job working for the team that happened to draft them. I understand completely. 🙂 If I had the wall space, I'd order some of those SI cover reprints and frame them, and that would be one of them.

Collinsworth gets a lot of hate as a media personality but he was responsible for some of my favorite Bengals memories. In 1981 he was the first Bengals player to appear on a SI cover, back when that meant something, and in the article he told a reporter, referring to Super Bowl XVI, "we'll be there", or something to that effect. That was the first time I'd ever heard anyone predict the Bengals to be in a Super Bowl.

It's the NFL company picnic and a bunch of semi-random employees show up and play games. Still waiting for lawn darts and cornhole to get added.

What a great piece, especially the art. I love that we can get all the media and information we want from wherever we are, but it makes us take it for granted. Having something like this in your possession in 1982 meant something. It was suitable for framing.

A boring pair of games for me. No one I like, no one I hate, although it does get old seeing Denver and New England float back to the top consistently. It must be nice. Once the Bengals, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Kansas City, and the occasional "I like/hate them for now" teams are eliminated, I just root for good uniform matchups. NAVY New England, NAVY Denver, NAVY Seattle, and BLUE Los Angeles makes for some boring aesthetics. It didn't have to be this way. The three navy teams had it right in the past. Oh, and any sporting event not sponsored by a gambling app isn't worth watching. I want more gambling app ads, everywhere, all the time. I want the network that broadcasts baseball games to be named after a gambling site, too.

Just a miserable ending to a great two-year run of success, and in our stadium, no less. 😒

I'm surprised, honestly. If you're going to be as poor of a public face of the organization as he is, you'd better have historic level success. I'll still be surprised if he gets another HC job, but some team may look beyond the idiosyncrasies.

McDaniel will serve some team well as an OC, but I suspect the head coaching ship has sailed for him.

Joe Burrow would be the fourth oldest on this list. I think he still would have been fired had the kid made the kick Sunday and then they lost the Texans this weekend. That will get you a lifetime contract with some NFL franchises. Or maybe one NFL franchise, singular.

I have rooting interest in two games: BUF at JAX and HOU at PIT. I get tired of hearing about Josh Allen, so send him home early. And there is no franchise in all of sports that I despise more than the Pittsburgh Stealers. Go Texans. Does the Stealer game being on MNF work in their favor or does it matter?