The Northwest is a place where you will find a lot of fans of various NFL teams. It can be tough because there's very few Bengal fans to ever find or talk to. Obviously there is the benefit of being able to talk to other fans and learning more in depth news about various teams. I will say that the AFC North is probably the most represented in the area.
Now, I chose to capitalize on the benefit of people not really knowing about the Bengals recently. I was working out at the gym and decided it was time to blast my pecs. The pec blaster 3000 was next to the classroom where a bunch of soccer-moms try to expand their inner child, or whatever yoga is supposed to teach you. I have a pair of Bengal shorts that I wear to the gym and the shirt I happened to wear was my Bengals Training Camp shirt. One of the women saw this and decided to come over and talk to me.
"Excuse me, I noticed that the name on your shirt is the name of a pro football team. I know that training camp is where the players meet. So are you a player for the...*looks at shirt*...Bengals?"
Now if this one of the other 9 times out of 10, I would've simply said no and moved on. Instead, I chose to act on this go with it.
"Yes, I am. My name is Kevin Huber. I'm a quarterback and I'm battling for the backup position this year."
"Oh my, that sounds exciting, who are you battling?"
All I could think to myself was that this was amazing. More satisfying than I ever thought it would be.
"He's a nice guy named Dave Shula. He's a little slow, but he's not too bad if you don't ask him to do anything."
She wished me luck and went back to waiting for her class. I finished up with the machine and left. She talked with her friends and I didn't want to risk one of them calling my bluff and then having to apologize for all the lying.
Truly a benefit of being in a non-Bengal part of the country.
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