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For someone who professed to not be a Bengals fan, their 17-31 post season loss to the Steelers has hit me far harder than I ever thought possible.

I’m probably going to sound weird here, but for a couple weeks afterward I could barely think about it. I didn’t visit my usual sports sites or even this site, I was that depressed.

I know all season long I’ve been saying that the Bengals wouldn’t make it to the Super Bowl. I wasn’t saying this for the same reason that JANET was - namely that the defense wasn’t good enough yet, or for the same reason that Niko was - that the team was cursed by the malicious ghost of Paul Brown. I didn’t think the Bengals would make it to the Super Bowl because I truly didn’t believe in them. Yeah, in the clap your hands and believe in faeries sort of way. I told you this would get fruity.

It took their loss to the Steelers, their horrible, agonizing loss, to show me how much I believe in this damn team. That’s why I have this crushing sense of agony. I genuinely think that the Bengals could have beaten the Steelers if Palmer had’t had gotten hurt. I really believe, and having the season end the way it did is absolutely devastating.

It’s official: I’ve become a Bengals fan.