On this day 20 years ago. The Birth of a Legend at Lambeau Field

The Birth of a Legend at Lambeau Field. 20 years ago today

                It was week 3 of the 1992 NFL Season. The Cincinnati Bengals traveled to Green Bay to take on the Packers. The Packers were not as well known as they are today, while the Bengals were coming in at 2-0 under new head coach Dave Shula. In the 2^nd quarter, quarterback Don Majkowski got sacked by the Bengals defense and got injured pretty bad. Then came an unknown Quarterback from Southern Mississippi, Brett Favre. Favre, like a lot of other NFL players, would do great things at the expense of the Bengals Franchise, Joe Montana, Terrell Owens, to name a few. Favre threw a 38 yard touchdown to Kendrick Taylor with 12 seconds left and the legend of Brett Favre was born. Also on this day in 1998, Favre and the Packers would defeat the Bengals 13-6 at Cinergy Field. Favre would go 5-1 against the Bengals in his career.

One game does not make a season

There is a saying, "one game does not make a season", just ask the 2007 Bengals, Browns, 2009 Bengals.

The Bengals beat the Ravens Five years ago on Monday Night. Forcing seven turnovers and winning 27-20. They would lose there next five games and finish 7-9.

The Browns laid an egg against Pittsburgh in Mike Tomlin's first NFL game and then had a great season, going 10-6

The 2009 Bengals lost a heartbreaker to the Broncos, thanks to the heroics of one Brandon Stockley and finished 10-6 and won the division.

The Ravens played like a team on a mission last night. They played with a chip on their shoulder and looked like a team that wanted to go to the Super Bowl. Ray Lewis is a awesome player, I enjoy watching him play.

Notable Bengals Opener's the last 20 years

There have been a few notable Bengals Season Openers over the last twenty years. Here are a few:

1992: Bengals defeat the Seahawks in Seattle in Dave Shula's first game as a NFL Coach

1995: Bengals defeat the Colts in Indianapolis in Overtime

1997: Carl Pickens late touchdown helps Bengals defeat The Arizona Cardinals at Cinergy

2001: Jon Kitna, Takeo Spikes, Brian Simmons help the Bengals hold off the New England Patriots 23-17, A game I was at

2002: First offensive play of the game was a "delay of game" penalty. The Bengals go 2-14 in the "Delay of a Season" and Dick LeBeau gets fired on Black Monday

2005-2007: Bengals defeat the Browns, Chiefs and Ravens respectfully 27-13, 20-3 and 27-20 to open their seasons

2011: In Andy Dalton's first NFL Game, the Bengals defeat the Browns 27-17

Inaugural Soup Kitchen Scramble was a great success

The Inaugural Holy Angels Soup Kitchen Scramble was held on August 26 at Shelby Oaks. Co-Chairmen Luke Schlater and Joe Wiseman had a field of 72 golfers and 18 teams, which exceeded both of our expectations for the Inaugural event. We helped raise a significant amount of $$ for the soup kitchen. The top 3 teams who won prize $$, all donated their money towards the soup kitchen. It's early September and Joe and I are already getting some interest about next years scramble, something I do not want to think about until probably May of 2013

Would love to see a D4: The Mighty Ducks Reunion

I watched D2: The Mighty Ducks, the last 30 minutes of it this weekend and I know its been fifteen years since the last Mighty Ducks Film came out. I think it would be super cool to see a D4: The Mighty Ducks reunion. To get this group back together on the big screen for a fourth time would be neat. Joshua Jackson's character in the 3 movies was awesome, he kept that group together and with him and Emilo Estevez, those 3 movies were a huge success.

Some of my favorite sports movies

I realized that I have not posted on here from time to time and I was thinking about this post earlier. Here are some of my favorite sports movies

Hockey: The Mighty Ducks Series. Joshua Jackson and Emilo Estevez made these movies successfull. Joshua Jackson was the heart and soul of the Duck's in the three movies.

Baseball: Little Big League, For Love of the Game, Rookie of the Year, Moneyball

Football: Rudy, Waterboy, Remember the Titan's, Invincible, The Blind Side

Basketball: Hoosiers

About this time 20 years ago... Braves take over the NL West

It was this time in 1992, The Reds were playing good ball, but their nemicious, the Atlanta Braves were about to catch them and did by the time late July came around. With the Starting Rotation of Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Steve Avery, the Braves took off and never looked back. Bream/Hunter, Lemke, Blauser, Pendelton, Gant, Nixon/Sanders, Justice, with Greg Olson and Damon Berryhill behind the plate, rounded the defense, this team was stacked. They would win their 2nd straight divison title, and make it to the World Series, bowing out to the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series 4-2.