I'm a Bengals fan (yes, there are at least dozens of us. Dozens!) and I've been dreading this week's game ever since it was announced. The Bengals are so mindfucked by their hatred of the Steelers (who don't even consider them a legit rival, at least, not compared to the Ravens) that they seemingly find any way they…

I've heard good things about him (as NFL's Adam Jones, not the racist who plays for the Orioles) when they're out in public. On the field, they're a couple of fucking lunatics (Burfict especially) that do more harm than good.

I went a few years ago and it's surprisingly engaging ("museums," can be kind of hit or miss in Phoenix from my past experiences). Be prepared to spend at least four hours there, though.

Wasn't having Edgerrin James a thing for about 20 minutes in the 2005 or 2006 season?

Yeah, I have a lot of issues with Ahwatukee and sometimes really wish my parents would consider moving elsewhere. Hell, I'd even settle for them living in Mesa…

There is/was a barn off the side of Interstate 71 heading north from Cincinnati toward Columbus with a giant confederate flag painted on the roof that was allegedly used by a Ku Klux Klan grand high wizard (or whatever their higher leaders are called) to hold meetings.

"It's a dry hate."

It happened, and I wasn't the least bit surprised.

As an Ohio State fan (one of those assholes who didn't actually attend the university) I'm grateful that you have the superior Harbaugh. But the college Harbaugh is just enough of a fucking psychopath to keep things interesting.

I was living in Orange County during those Marty Schottenheimer teams with LT and Drew Brees (Orange County football fans during that time frame ditched their Raiders jerseys for Chargers jerseys). Those regular season games were great. And then came the postseason…

Oh christ, I think I blocked him out of my memory on purpose until you just mentioned him.

"Who Dey" has been heard around Greater Cincinnati since at least their first trip to the Super Bowl in 1981-82.

I dated a black girl in high school who was shunned by our school's Black Student Union for dating me, an embarrassingly-white caucasian.

For the record, the only Cardinals quarterbacks I can think of off the top of my head to start before 2007 are Matt Leinert, Jake Plummer and Boomer Esiason.

They can get away with it because they're the Broncos. Ditto the Steelers. Vontaze Burfict (who for all intents and purposes is a goddamn lunatic) gets suspended three games for seemingly less than what the Broncos D did to Cam Newton last night.

I kind of want to be a dick and argue that Vontaze Burfict got suspended three games for less than what the Broncos D did to Cam Newton last night (is Cam okay? Seriously…), but then I remember that last season's final game was just a warmup to another year of futility of some sort for the Cincinnati Bengals.…

There's some sick irony (to me, at least) in that story about making fun of women with lead feet, seeing as how Santo lost both of his legs to diabetes…

Fun fact: My family used to drive to Chicago for vacation every summer and, travelling north from Cincinnati via Indianapolis, we always begged my dad to avoid driving through or near Gary because of how bad it smelled.

…At least it's not Detroit?

The Reds don't embrace advanced anything. They're going to be a bad/irrelevant baseball team for a long time. I was 12 the last time they won a playoff series. Apparently they think the key to success is signing St. Louis has-beens because "the Cardinals are successful, that must trickle down" even if the player (of…