To say there’s a lot of hype around the Cincinnati Bengals right now would be an understatement.
As the team heads to Super Bowl LVI to play against the Los Angeles Rams, Joe Burrow received a shout out from The Rock, Tom Brady had praise for Burrow and Rich Eisen said Rams fans who are happy to play the Bengals, not Chiefs, should be “careful what they wish for.”
And it’s not stopping there.
On “Good Morning Football,” Peter Schrager said the Bengals are both a great overall story and American story:
“I think the Bengals are a great sports story, they’re a great American story. It can happen. You can do it…Even if you go out on the biggest limb, nobody was picking the Bengals to win the Super Bowl…If you can’t get around this Bengals story, you probably don’t love a lot of things about the world.”
Schrager explicitly also mentions the stunning loss to the Jets in the middle of the season before the post-bye bounceback that resulted in the run to the Super Bowl.
Indeed, if Hollywood were scripting a football movie, it might look something like the script the Bengals have followed this year.
“I think the Bengals are a great sports story, they’re a great American story.”
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— NFL Network (@nflnetwork) February 3, 2022
