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Brown looking for a banner season

Mike Brown, who has been to all 50 Bengals training camp media luncheons, had the gleam in one eye and the twinkle in the other Tuesday.

Not the gleam of a club president, of which he now has been longer than he was his father’s assistant general manager. But the twinkle of a five-year-old in Massillon, Ohio, who collected tiny football players while others played with toy soldiers.

Time for another football season.

“It’s amazing,” he says to the scribes, his favorite encounter of this annual affair. “For me it isn’t even 50 years. I was fiddling around with this five years or so before we even got the franchise.