Sunday, Bloody Sunday.......

Strap on your helmets and get under your desks. Buy emergency supplies and gas up the generator. I am elevating the bomb threat level to Red....bright, bloody Cardinal Red!!! Our secondary is going up against one of the best receiving cores in the league, with Boldin, Fitgerald and Bryant Johnson all with big play abilities and a quarterback who knows how to throw bombs. Opposing them will be the battered combination of Leon "Where'd he go?!" Hall, Deltha " Every Other Play, On Every other Day, Is when I Play" O'Neal, and Jonathan "What Sophomore Slump?" Joseph.

Sure, I'm concerned. Do things look bleak? Absolutely. Are the playoffs completely out of the picture? It would a travesty, a crime against humanity if the Bengals lose this week at home. This game, this week, each play and each series we get to write our destiny on the pages of history. Is the season over?? What will become of us and what are we to do?In these dark times, when our fates hang on the razors edge, Bengal Fans, I implore you to seek solace in the words and the advice of Winston Churchill.

When the Blitz rained down on London, Nazi Bombers darkened the skies overhead, and all seemed lost - did Winston Churchill hide and wave the white flag...NO. When the people grew frightened and asked what they should do, this was his reply.


"You ask what is our policy. I will say, it is to wage war with all our might, with all the strength that God can give us, to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

"You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory however long and hard the road may be. For without victory there is no survival."

And for the Bengals, without victory there is no survival. And so we strap them up and lace them up and prepare to do battle against those who would destroy our season and our very Orange and Black Bengal way of life. From my Bunker, defending the Southern approaches to Paul Brown Stadium, I raise my fist in defiance and prepare for Sunday, Bloody Sunday.