stillers4me
12-03-2011, 12:43 PM
This Sunday’s Bengals-Steelers game (1 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Local 12) in Pittsburgh is turning out to be a 30-year festival of life and love for the 1981 AFC champion Bengals.
For Cincinnati there is kicker Mike Nugenthttp://www.steelersuniverse.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelersuniverse.com/team/roster/mike-nugent/44701177-8bcb-4bb1-a348-e81af4d4583a/), whose mother was pregnant with him when she went to the Freezer Bowl to cheer on the Bengals to their first Super Bowl in the 59-below wind chill the doctor said would be fine for the baby as long as she dressed snugly.
For Pittsburgh there is left tackle Max Starks, born on the very day his father punched that Super Bowl ticket harassing Chargers quarterback Dan Fouts at Riverfront Stadium: Jan. 10, 1982.
But Bengals right end Ross Browner wouldn’t know he had that son until 17 years later. Browner, who laughs just like his son, pondered the question this week.
What’s more amazing? His nine sacks that helped the Bengals to the 1981 AFC title game are now 30 years old? Or to have a son nearly 30 years old.
“The Super Bowl being 30 years ago; that’s hard to believe,” Browner is saying from Nashville, Tenn. “It seems like it just happened. The new uniforms and Forrest Gregg. That’s what did it.”
After what he’s been through with his son, there’s nothing left of amazing. Max Starks turned out to be even bigger than Browner and one of those dreaded left tackles, no less. Not only that, Starks plays for the Steelers, the team Ross loved to hate during his nine seasons with the Bengals................
Read more @ http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Thirty-thirty-club/d9bc9655-a705-4f81-8314-619240a51f04
For Cincinnati there is kicker Mike Nugenthttp://www.steelersuniverse.com/assets/nflimg/icon-article-link.gif (http://www.steelersuniverse.com/team/roster/mike-nugent/44701177-8bcb-4bb1-a348-e81af4d4583a/), whose mother was pregnant with him when she went to the Freezer Bowl to cheer on the Bengals to their first Super Bowl in the 59-below wind chill the doctor said would be fine for the baby as long as she dressed snugly.
For Pittsburgh there is left tackle Max Starks, born on the very day his father punched that Super Bowl ticket harassing Chargers quarterback Dan Fouts at Riverfront Stadium: Jan. 10, 1982.
But Bengals right end Ross Browner wouldn’t know he had that son until 17 years later. Browner, who laughs just like his son, pondered the question this week.
What’s more amazing? His nine sacks that helped the Bengals to the 1981 AFC title game are now 30 years old? Or to have a son nearly 30 years old.
“The Super Bowl being 30 years ago; that’s hard to believe,” Browner is saying from Nashville, Tenn. “It seems like it just happened. The new uniforms and Forrest Gregg. That’s what did it.”
After what he’s been through with his son, there’s nothing left of amazing. Max Starks turned out to be even bigger than Browner and one of those dreaded left tackles, no less. Not only that, Starks plays for the Steelers, the team Ross loved to hate during his nine seasons with the Bengals................
Read more @ http://www.bengals.com/news/article-1/Thirty-thirty-club/d9bc9655-a705-4f81-8314-619240a51f04