The Bengals open the preseason Friday night (7:30-Cincinnati’s Channel 12) against Tampa Bay at Paul Brown Stadium and all we really know is that it’s going to go a lot more smoothly for than it did for John Stofa.
Stofa, the original Bengal, is the subject of the latest Hobson’s Choice podcast in honor of him taking the first Bengals’ snap in their inaugural game during that Whole-World-Is-Watching August of 1968. But it wasn’t watching Paul Brown’s expansion Bengals and the powerful Chiefs showed why in their 38-14 victory at the University of Cincinnati’s Nippert Stadium.
(That was so long ago it was known as an exhibition and not a pre-season game.