October 28th, 2009 
B.Clifton Burke 
Posted in We Bengal fans are doubters; it comes with the program. Like veteran circus freaks, we’ve been kicked around for a long time and we have trust issues with management. Bengal fans usually draw pity-smiles from the football world and any success often comes with a condescending pat on the head. It’s a tough gig, but [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Welcome to the Jungle Once Again!
Its funny how life unfolds, how one single game of football reflects ones entire life. Dec 17th of 1989 at the age 9 years old I was sitting with my father watching his beloved Cincinnati Bengals. To most fans that day isn’t really a memorable occasion. I’m not like most fans, that is the day [...]
Bengals Pursued Bennett
In another sign that the Bengals are working to change their reputation as stubbornly unaggressive, ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reported on Thursday that the team had pursued a trade with Dallas for second-year TE Martellus Bennett. On Wednesday, Jerry Jones had mentioned vaguely that they had received an offer from another team, but had turned it [...]
Week 7 Preview: Smack-Talk From Above
Somewhere in the cosmos, football demigods, Paul Brown and George Halas, spent the last few days arm-wrestling and taking cheap digs at one another in preparation for this week’s game. They’re still at it; purple-faced and winded, but unrelenting in spirit. Late Sunday night, they will go back to sit in their armchairs, share a [...]
First Round Pick OL Smith Back on the Practice Field
First-round draft pick Andre Smith is back practicing with the Bengals, who have gotten next-to-nothing out of the offensive lineman so far. Smith missed all of training camp and the first three preseason games in a contract holdout. Two days after he signed, he broke his left foot during a non-contact drill. He put on [...]
Tags: Week 6 Recap – Duped!
These Texans are trickier than they look. Bengal players were warned by soothsayers everywhere that a letdown was coming this week. The idea being that they could not sustain the energy necessary to continue winning every week, and at some point, would relax. So, to disprove the theory, the Bengals came out too fired up, [...]
Cardiac Arrest
On Sunday, the Bengals came back down to Earth. After a miraculous four-week run that included an improbable sweep through the division and culminated in an emotionally-taxing week of shock, grief, and jubilation; the luck simply ran out. The Houston Texans, a sub-.500 team, entered Paul Brown Stadium and easily handled the “cardiac cats.” While [...]
Schaub Declaws Bengals, Texans Win At Paul Brown 28-17
The Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans actually have something in common – not much in their rushing department but make up for it in spades with superior passing. Texans quarterback Matt Schaub, while obviously not Peyton Manning (heck, who is?), has save for Week 1 made a decent accounting of himself. In Houston’s game agaisnt [...]
