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Wednesday, September 21

Football season!

by Mike on Wed 21 Sep 2005 01:55 PM EDT

Well, let's just get this out of the way...I am still a fan of pro football. (Maybe I should have filed this under “True Confessions.”) I don’t follow any other sports (college or pro) with much enthusiasm or any regularity. Pro football is different, though...It’s just something that I have never been able to shake. It’s kind of like those weird musical interests that I have mentioned before. I just never grew out of my love for the game. There have been times in which my interest was fleeting, but eventually the old excitement always kicks back in.
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For all of my life, the “home team” has been the Cincinnati Bengals. When I was really little, I was a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. I’m not exactly sure how or why this was the case, but since the Steelers and the Bengals were division rivals, I was never really one to root for the “home team.” Around the late 1980's, I became interested in some other teams, including the Minnesota Vikings and the Houston Oilers. These are perennial “hard luck teams.” For a while there, it seemed like every year, they would make it to the top of their divisions only to have their hopes dashed in the post-season. The 1992 Oilers were one of my favorite teams of all time and it’s still agonizing to watch highlight films from their loss to the Buffalo Bills in the ‘92 AFC championship game. Even though the Oilers are now defunct, I still carry a torch for them. I have a bunch of Oilers memorabilia in my office and about once a week, a visitor says, “So, are you an Oilers fan?” My response is typically a sigh followed by, “Well, I was an Oilers fan...” Nowadays, the Oilers are the Tennessee Titans and seeing as how their roster still boasts a few Oilers vets, the Titans are still on my favorites list.

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The Vikings are certainly set to be a hard luck team again this year, although this time around, it looks like they’ll be hard-pressed to even make it to the post-season. Yesterday was one of the most abysmal drubbings that I have ever seen the Vikings take. And it was all at the hands of...the Bengals? Y’know, I have never really been excited about a Bengals season until this year. It looks like things might be coming together for them. The city of Cincinnati could sure use something to be proud of for a change.
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Remember the “World League of American Football" back in 1991? If I recall correctly, these folks wre the first group to put “helmet cams” in the helmets of quarterbacks and other players. The Orlando Thunder was my team. WLAF was way cooler than the XFL.