It was this week back in 1968 that head coach Paul Brown convened the first Bengals practice in history at the club’s training camp and rookie quarterback Sam Wyche was there at Wilmington College.
“We belonged right away because of the preparation in that first training camp,” says Wyche of the first two months of Brown’s Baby Bengals as the AFL’s expansion team in the latest Hobson’s Choice podcast.
There’s no one like Wyche, 72, who can fling you down memory lane to that first orange-and-black summer like one of his passes as Brown’s backup quarterback in the first three seasons of existence.