I’ve never seen the Republic of Cincinnati more jazzed than the weeks leading up to the ’88 Super Bowl. We like to think this is a baseball town and in some ingrained, historical ways, it is. But the Reds haven’t moved this town and brought us all together the way the Bengals did in 1988-89. Not even in ’90.
It’s even more obvious now. Some of that owes to the changing times. The NFL lapped MLB a long time ago. Now, it’s just piling on. When it comes to our choice of games, baseball is never going to be #1 again, even here.