My story is pretty simple - born in the early ‘80s and watched Ickey Woods and the entire team shuffle into my heart. It’s not always been easy or fun to be a Bengals fan, but there will be a time (SOON) where this team hoists the Lombardi Trophy and all of the pain will have been worth it. Stay the course and keep the faith y’all. 🧡🖤 (please keep the negativity to yourself in this thread)
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Have a lot of family in Cincinnati, grew up watching the mid-2000s Bengals with them, and it just stuck. I’ve been a Bengals fan for 19 years now, and at this point, there’s no changing me😂 I am what I am😂
decided to follow Joe’s career after seeing his final season at LSU. I was thrilled when they drafted Ja’marr and I will be a fan forever!
I loved in centerville from age 2-8. No one in my family cares about football, but at some point around 3-4 I became a big fan of the Bengals… mostly because they’re tigers and I love Halloween.
When we left Ohio I doubled down on my love for Ohio and specifically the Bengals… My love has only grown over the past 20 years. I moved around a lot but have always been a huge Bengals fan and followed along very closely.
Finally I got to go to my first live Bengals game week 1 of 2021, Vikings at Bengals. I watched Burrow and Chase connect for their first NFL TD, which was a BOMB. Past 3 years have been amazing.
Im from california, when I was 13ish I realized I did not want to be part of the raiders/niners/chargers fan base and I went with the bengals to not bandwagon, they had just drafted palmer so things were looking okay…still here now, have been to cincy a few times for games and I am glad I picked the bengals, fanbase is awesome, city is beautiful and the journey has been fun
Family has had season tickets since the late 70’s
This may be a dumb but honestly I wanted the root for my own team. I live in a house full of Steeler fans. And people outside this family are Brown’s fans. I always watched football anyways and to make everybody happy I would always say I hope the Steelers and Browns would win. Of course when they played each other I was forced to pick a winner. I usually didn’t because I was a kid and I always say I hope it ends in the tie lol. Anyways must have been a year where the Steelers and Browns were both had a bye week or maybe I missed their respective games I don’t know but I watched the Bengals one day. The quarterback was Jeff Blake if you can remember him. I don’t remember the opponent but I do remember that the Bengals did win that game and this is probably going to be another dumb thing to say but I honestly became a fan of Jeff Blake and I got to watch a majority of his career while he played for the Bengals. As a kid I was disappointed to see that he was not with the team but I still remained a fan because like I said I found my own team and I was going to stay a fan of them. So seasons where we made it to the playoffs and lost, the seasons where we went 500 or game above. And of course the countless losing seasons. I still remain a fan despite the fact that my family, Amber’s outside his family and some friends would constantly try to get me to root for Pittsburgh Steelers or the Cleveland Browns.