The other day I’m doing the usual things I do when it isn’t football season. Namely, playing video games. In this case EVE Online, which has become my latest obsession after some real-life non-Bengals-loving friends got me interested in it. While I’m in the other room hauling crokite around New Eden, my wife is in the other room watching the extra features included with her brand new, special edition copy of Phantom of the Opera: The Movie. After staring at the computer screen for hours on end, I needed a break, so I wandered in to our living room to see how the making-of documentary was coming along.

“Did you know the girl who played Christine was only sixteen when she made this movie?”

“Huh? Sixteen?”

“Yeah, she was only sixteen years old.”

Yes, my dear fellow Bengals fans, I have come before you to confess my sins. Unbeknownst to me, I had previously encouraged those of you of the heterosexual male persuasion to get through having to watch Phantom of the Opera: The Movie with your girlfriend/wife by fantasizing about a sixteen year old. Apparently, everything was not as it appeared to be.

I think this pretty much sums up the Bengals 2005-2006 season in a nutshell, doesn’t it?