It was meant to be. It had to be.
Before family, there was football. Cincinnati football. Of course, if you’re the family of new Bengals linebacker Preston Brown, there is family because of Cincinnati football.
Both are so intertwined like a football’s laces that it was no surprise when Preston Brown dropped by his new office for a media meet-and-greet Wednesday at Paul Brown Stadium that the family came along.
There is Mike Brown, the dad who came back to Cincinnati to marry Preston’s mom 30 years ago when an NFL coach cut him and made him a high school football coach.