Bengals lost 6 straight games after winning the first game but then won 7 straight and ended up 8-6 winning the AFC Central. Solid year for the Bengals. Follow me on twitter for my latest uploads here and elsewhere. / classicsports84
LEMAR PARRISH ROOKIE YEAR HALL OF FAME SNUB 34:00 LEMAR PARRISH KEN RILEY THE OTHER HALL OF FAME SNUB TWO OF THE BEST DEFENSIVE SECONDARY PLAYERS THRU THE ENTIRE 70's. 26:00 Bob Trumpy
the opening shot of the scoreboard (and I think maybe some of the crowd shots) were used on the episode of the Odd Couple When Howard Cossell was a guest...
I grew up in Ohio and remember this team well. I was ten that year and had started following college and pro football a couple of years before but had not landed on a specific NFL team to follow. The hype surrounding the Bengals improbable winning streak in '70 got my attention and that became my team through good and not so good seasons over the next decade. The kids in my Central Ohio neighborhood were about evenly divided between Browns and Bengals fans, with some fair weather bandwagon jumpers mixed in for the Colts, Jets, Cowboys, '72 Dolphins, or whatever the flavor of the week was, plus a few Green Bay die-hards left over from their glory days.
@@leroygilbert7417 No he was not as I said before Cook was the Jeff George of his era he could throw the ball in any manner he wished Montana was a updated version of Virgil Carter.Carter and Montana both lacked the obvious size and strength of Cook.
The Bengals were a hard luck team in its first few years. Paul Robinson, who gained over 1,000 yards rushing in his rookie season in 1968, leading the AFL in rushing. He was the first and, I believe, only player to be a rookie on a first year expansion team to lead the league in rushing. He would be injured in 1969 and never regained hi rookie form. Then Greg Cook, who had a great rookie season in 1969, gets injured and never recovered. His attempted comeback with the Chiefs in 1974 went nowhere, unfortunately.
Greg Cook is the greatest quarterback you never heard of and is considered a "one-hit wonder" by professional sports standards. His is the story of what might have been
@@chrisbacos he is considered perhaps the greatest “what if” ever. In a FB group, I did a lengthy post about him. If he played even 15 years ago, his injury would have been easily repairable.
1:50 This was Sam Wyche's longest run of his career. Loved him as coach of this team. Just wish he could've been they guy to lead them to that first Lombardi. So sad that he's gone now.
With Greg Cook at QB, that playoff game vs Baltimore would've been winnable. They would then have gotten the Raiders at home again, and then faced the Craig Morton-led -Keystone- Dallas Cowboys in another eminently winnable game with Greg Cook under center. Oh well. C'est la vie.
With the uniforms the Bengals chose initially, when they played the Browns unless you looked up close and saw the "Bengals" on the side of the helmets you'd think it was an intrasquad scrimmage. I know, Paul Brown did it to tick off Art Modell, but at one point Brown was looking at some helmets including one with tiger-like striping which would eventually be adopted in 1981. That would have been something back then.
+@@classicsports5057 I count 9 Superbowl victories there. +2 more for San Francisco after Bill Walsh retired. None for Cincinnati. Much like Eugene Klein of the Chargers. An ungrateful cheapskate.
He was clearly wrong, but out of respect for what he did for the game, I'd never call him a fool. Disrespectful to his legacy to summarize it with that one mistake.
Sam Wyche should be proud. It's not every man who can claim that they were a failure not only as an NFL QB, but also as an NFL head coach. Too bad he never became the Bengals owner, so he could have failed at that too.
