Ken Anderson, the leading passer in Cincinnati Bengals history, has been recovering from back surgery at his home in Hilton Head, South Carolina, and he can't move all that much.
But while he's relaxing, he's wearing his new "AFC Champions" hat.
"Oh yeah," Anderson says proudly over the phone. "Once a Bengal, always a Bengal,"
The history of the Bengals has been told often, and it's told wrong according to some of the men who have passed through that franchise. Yes, the 1990s were miserable. Yes, a playoff win escaped them for a long time.