Chess is like football, only without the dice.
Spiegel Online lists this as one of German football’s (Soccer) greatest sayings, but it just might catch on around the Cincinnati Bengals’ locker room, where a chessboard is on prominent display, as Bengals.com’s Jake Rice writes.
“(The chessboard) has been there since training camp,” Bengals’ quarterback Joe Burrow said during Tuesday’s news conference. “Me and Thaddeus (Moss) started playing, then a couple of guys have cycled in and out, playing some games, a good little locker room camaraderie thing.”
And it is that camaraderie that sets this Bengals’ team apart from those teams of the last 31 years (Cincinnati has not won a playoff game since 1991).