Last summer, HBO and NFL films had a very difficult time finding an NFL team that was willing to let film crews into their facility to document training camp for the popular "Hard Knocks" series. The Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, Houston Texans, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks and Washington Redskins passed on the series before the Miami Dolphins and first-year head coach Joe Philbin agreed to be the featured franchise. Finding a subject will be easier in 2013 as reports on Friday night have the Cincinnati Bengals slated to appear on "Hard Knocks" for the second time in the last five years. The news that the Bengals were the team was first tweeted by Paul Domowitch of the Philadelphia Daily News but that tweet quickly disappeared, but Domowitch is close enough to the Mount Laurel, New Jersey-based NFL Films for his report to have the utmost of credibility. Confirmation would come later on Friday evening from Joe Reedy, who provides blanket coverage of the Bengals for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Source: Yahoo! Sports
NFL should make it that the losing superbowl team does hard knocks the following year. That would be something. And on repeat years (same team losing the superbowl back to back) they should, instead, use the worse team in football to do it. The drama would be insane. A team trying to overcome the hump and win the superbowl or a team trying to get out of the muck n establish themselves as true contenders. Would be good TV. Real good TV. ...and I fade back to black.
