So I’m from a town called bowling green (20 minutes south of Toledo for reference) and so I probably should be a browns fan but as a kid I thought their logo was incredibly stupid. It’s literally just a helmet. So yea lol the browns logo is why I’m a fan
I’m not from Cincinnati, but grew up in Indiana about 1 hour drive from Cincy. My family were huge Reds fans. We’d go to a couple games each summer, and I’d listen to lots of games on the radio, 700WLW. We weren’t really into the NFL when I was a kid. No particular reason, just weren’t. But as I got a little older being a fan of the Reds just sorta morphed into being a fan of the Bengals too. I think it coincided with the arrival of Carson Palmer and the team starting to become not a joke anymore. So I became a fan in like 03-04 timeframe which is when I started becoming more interested in the NFL in general. Been a diehard fan ever since, despite living much further away now