Before tweets and mocks and combines, this is how center Bob Johnson finds out he is a franchise’s first player ever drafted, the second overall player selected out of 462, and that Harvard Business School has lost his services to a start-up something called, “The Cincinnati Bengals.” When he gets back to his apartment in student housing at the University of Tennessee from a class for his industrial engineering degree, Jane Johnson, his wife of six weeks in a voice coated with her native Gulf Shores and an innate irreverence for the game, asks, “What’s a Bengal?” “I knew it was an expansion team.
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