With a 6-0 record heading into Week 8, it's a great time to be a Cincinnati Bengals fan.
It was a celebration in Cincinnati on Thursday.
Linebacker Vontaze Burfict was cleared to practice and Andy Dalton was announced as the offensive player of the month in October. Not even Mike Tyson's furious combination and jolting uppercut could dissuade crisp enthusiasm for Bengals fans.
Burfict, who played his final game of the 2014 season against Baltimore on October 26 was ceremoniously cleared to practice on Thursday. Gloriously, it was his first practice after a relatively minor scoping procedure led to dreadful microfracture surgery; that wiped out his training camp, preseason and the first six weeks of the regular season.