But then he came to Cincinnati and the Bengals this spring to play linebacker and on Thursday head coach Marvin Lewis walked him over to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and instead of chemistry Dansby found history.
“Eternal flame. Safe haven. Freedom Center. Cincinnati. Beautiful,” dictates Dansby into his phone, clicking the video button that captured the flame in front of the Roebling Suspension Bridge that rumbles into the old slave commonwealth of Kentucky.
“Yeah, bowling. Stuff like that,” Dansby says later. “But nothing like this. Not with this much prestige and history behind it. I’m taping the whole thing.