A friend and I got season tickets for the Cincinnati Bengals, nosebleeds, mind you, the summer before the 2008 season. What could be better than watching Carson Palmer sling touchdown passes to Chad Johnson and TJ Houshmandzadeh while they dominated the AFC North on their way to winning their first Super Bowl?
And I was going to be there to see it all unfold!
I still remember the home opener. It was against the Tennessee Titans, and hurricane-force winds blew through the city, literally shaking our seats. The Bengals lost, which was a trend that season (they finished 4-11-1).