TDBH: Bengals pitch in on tornado clean-up

MOSCOW, Ohio — Leon Hall, who lives close enough on Cincinnati's East Side, is walking through what used to be a town at about high noon on the Ohio River. About a mile from where General U.S. Grant was born nearly 200 years ago and where a week ago countless of dreams die in a tornado's terrifying instant. "One day you have a place to sleep and the next you don't," Hall muses as he walks past a bombed-out house with a suitcase sticking metaphorically out of the front yard. "The place where I've stayed the last five years isn’t that far from here. Obviously, the next question that goes through your head is, 'What if it was my house?' " Hall, the starting cornerback, is one of about 30 Bengals employees from defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer to middle linebacker Rey Maualuga to assistant marketing director Wade Martin to former cornerback Artrell Hawkins that pitch in with today’s relief effort. Hall answers his own question with one of groundskeeper Darian Daily's rakes from the Paul Brown Stadium closet. He has just finished digging out chunks of insulation, metal, wood and trees from underneath a fence. "It's called a community for a reason," Hall says. "People get together and help each other out. It could have been anybody. It could have been any town."

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