Bengals defensive tackle Geno Atkins, who rarely speaks to the media, discusses a range of topics after signing a four-year extension with the team. Kareem Elgazzar, kelgazzar@enquirer.com
We can’t appreciate where we’re going until we acknowledge where we’ve been, which explains why jockstraps are essential to the Geno Atkins Story.
Back in the 1970s and well into the 1990s – that’s to say, when football players still wore athletic supporters – Bengals players plucked theirs from a big, rolling bin in the locker room. Equipment manager Tom Gray would wash the jocks daily, then toss them into the bin.