The Bengals And The Curse Of Bo Jackson
The Lead
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3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The longest playoff win drought in American sports belongs to… The Cincinnati Bengals. It’s been 30 seasons (and counting) since fans in Southern Ohio could celebrate an NFL postseason victory, and it all started with a tackle on one of the league’s most legendary players. Today, The Athletic’s Paul Dehner Jr. and Jay Morrison take us through the history of the so-called 'Curse of Bo Jackson' and tell us why this young and fearless Bengals squad may finally be the one to end their historic drought.
Read Paul Dehner Jr. and Jay Morrison’s story about the Bengals playoff curse here: https://theathletic.com/3062632/2022/01/11/time-for-us-to-turn-the-page-bengals-playoff-drought-resonates-across-31-years-of-players-coaches/
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| 0:52.0 | In all of professional sports, no team's fans have gone longer without seeing their team win a playoff game than the Cincinnati Bengals. |
| 1:01.0 | 30 seasons and counting and it turns out it could be because of a curse. |
| 1:06.0 | At first, even was kind of funny, laughing about it and all of that, but then as it came up more and more frequent, |
| 1:15.0 | it has some validity all of a sudden, maybe this thing is real. |
| 1:19.0 | Today, the athletics Paul Dana Jr. and Jay Morrison on the spell that might have been cast on the Bengals |
| 1:26.0 | and whether Joe Burrow and Company have the power to break it. |
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| 1:32.0 | It's Thursday, January 13th and this is The Lead. |
| 1:39.0 | Paul and Jay, welcome to the show. |
| 1:41.0 | Hey, thanks for having us. |
| 1:42.0 | So guys, we're going to dive into something that I had actually never heard of before until I read your recent story about it, |
| 1:47.0 | but it's something that is apparently very well known there in Cincinnati. |
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