LOS ANGELES – Every athlete does it: in the backyard, on the neighborhood court, on their home field. Imagining the moment they win an Olympic gold or NCAA championship.
For most of us, those are pipe dreams. Fun for sure, but ultimately unattainable because there comes a day where we realize our best is good but not Olympic-medal or NFL-level elite.
D.J. Reader has been having his own dream ever since his Cincinnati Bengals stunned much of the NFL, upsetting the Chiefs in Kansas City to make their first Super Bowl appearance since 1989.
It involves winning the game against the Los Angeles Rams, of course, but more specifically, it's about holding his toddler son Rocky aloft as black and orange confetti falls around them.