Balloting by Season Ticket Members to round out the Bengals' inaugural Ring of Honor class starts Monday and runs through June 18.
Season Ticket Holders can vote for two nominees to see who joins Bengals founder Paul Brown and Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Anthony Muñoz.
Among the candidates is former Dartmouth linebacker Reggie Williams '76, in the bottom right of the graphic above. The story in the posting included this look at his career:
As powerful as he was on the field, he was a force of nature off it. In a span of two years he won the Byron "Whizzer" White Award for Humanitarian Service (1985), NFL Man of the Year (1986) and Sports Illustrated's Co-Sportsmen of the Year (1987). A College Football Hall of Fame inductee and one of the great players in Ivy League history, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Dartmouth in 1990.
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Staying in Ohio, the Cleveland.com Browns page has a lengthy look at the unusual route some of the team's assistant coaches took to their football careers. Dartmouth plays a role for one of the coaches and surprise, the coach in question is not Callie Brownson. (LINK)
It's tight end coach Drew Petzing, who graduated from Vermont's Middlebury College and went on to coach at Harvard and Yale. The son of CPAs, he thought he might be headed for an MBA until . . .
He spent a month in the Tuck Business Bridge Program at Dartmouth, a month-long intensive course that prepares its participants for an MBA program. The people were great. The relationships were great. The work?
“I walked out of it thinking, ‘I don’t want to do this,’” Petzing said.
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Dartmouth sports information has a quick look at last Saturday's Green-White scrimmage HERE.
Be sure to check out BGA Premium tonight for a little look back at the scrimmage as well as the third and final installment of coach Buddy Teevens' comments on the players in the Class of 2024.
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EXTRA POINT
A story in The Dartmouth headlined, College’s decision not to offer air conditioning this summer leaves students frustrated has me thinking back to my days in grad school at Penn State. Trust me when I tell you summers in Centre County, Pa., are significantly hotter and a whole lot more humid than they are in the Upper Valley. And oh by the way, there was no air conditioning in the dorms when I was there.
I don't remember where Dave, a neighbor in the grad hdorm, was from. I seem to recall it was somewhere in the Midwest. What I do recall was Dave telling me shortly after we met that he came to town on an overnight bus and liked to travel light. Maybe not Jack Reacher light – meaning just a toothbrush – but we're talking seriously light. The guy was a minimalist before minimalism was cool.
Speaking of cool, Dave had a large box fan humming in his dorm window one of the first times I dropped by his room. It was a steamy late-August day and I asked where he bought it. He said he didn't. Buy it, that is. He told me he brought it from home.
Turns out Dave had interviewed at Penn State shortly before graduation in the spring and as he walked around campus he noticed a box fan in virtually every dorm window. That's how hot and sticky it is in State College.
I've forgotten a lot of my fellow grad students from all those years ago and can't remember Dave's last name or face. But I still laugh at the thought of a guy hopping off a Greyhound with everything he needed for the next year or two crammed into a pack on his back . . . and a large box fan in his hand.
Maybe the poor snowflakes unhappy about the air conditioning situation at Dartmouth could tear a page out of Dave's book.
