It’s hard not to watch a long-suffering team like the Cincinnati Bengals reach the big stage and conjure images of another long-suffering team following in their footprints.
The Atlanta Falcons, like Cincinnati, lack a Super Bowl, but when a team like Cincinnati does well for themselves, you wonder if it’s possible if the Falcons can finally shake off years of ineptitude and finally get back to any sort of postseason relevance. It seems like aeons ago they were there, but it wasn’t that long ago.
It’s easy to come up with reasons for the positive as it is for reasons to come up with for the negative.