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The Bengals Stole Our Season

You do not under any circumstances have to hand it to them, though.

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D.J. Byrnes
Jan 31, 2022
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Joe Burrow a mere 13 years ago.

The Cincinnati Bengals are going to the Super Bowl. A sentence that, hours after becoming official, still feels surreal to type.

This is like your one friend who is always presenting you with get-rich-quick schemes with murky legality. A mid-level marketing scheme one week. A cryptocurrency pump-and-dump the next. He is alw…

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