A few years ago he was the punchline to every Bengals joke. He embarrassed the city with his comedy of errors and left us scratching our heads over whether he would ever straighten out. He did.
It took Chris Henry a little longer than most but he found his place in life and that place was in Cincinnati providing for his fiance and small children as a professional athlete.
As a player we knew him as the physically gifted deep-threat who caught the pass against Pittsburgh we will never forget. As a person we can choose to remember him for his mistakes or see the whole picture and remember him as the guy who was destined for the bottom, but battled back to the top.
The Bengals may be relevant again because of their record but fans around the country should realize this team's success is built around redemption stories, none of which was more impressive than Henry's journey.
RIP Chris.
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What a shame.
You guys going to keep the name of the website? Just doesn't seem as humorous as it used to now...
Fair question. We will decide on what to do very soon.
I'm sure Bob feels the same way that I do....I just think it would be in poor taste to keep Chris Henry as the poster child for OMCW.
I hope everyone realizes that we never intended this site to be a site that mocked Slim....it was, in a weird roundabout way, a tribute site to Chris and the Cincinnati Bengals. We all love the Bengals...as frustrating as they can be at times.
I am and always will be a HUGE fan of Chris Henry. Did he make mistakes? Yeah...he certainly did. I remember hearing all the news about Chris getting in trouble and I was just as pissed off as everyone else. But I always thought there had to be more to the story that just what we read in the newspapers...how could a man who was so soft-spoken be the monster everyone made him out to be. It's weird.
We are extremely saddened by the death of Chris Henry. We will probably keep the name, but just a different logo.
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