Scribe Session Series: Adrian Ross

Scribe Session returns as we kick off the first in a special series that will take us up toward training camp in July. So often fans today complain about the frustrations rooting for a team that has made the playoff three consecutive years and four of the last five. How soon they forget what life used to be like around this franchise.

That's why I'm catching up with Bengals from 90s and early 2000s to see what they are up to now, stories from old days, opinions on what went wrong (and occasionally right) as well as the challenges of post-football life.

The series opens with former Bengals linebacker Adrian Ross. He spent six years with the team from 1998-2003 playing in 90 games with 34 starts, 127 tackles, three sacks and one memorable hairstyle.

Ross, now living in Sacramento as a sports agent, dishes on his real feelings about exactly why the Bengals could never get over the hump, how Marvin Lewis changed the culture, Akili Smith, Carl Pickens, Bruce Coslet and the stink of Spinney Field.

Keep an eye out over the coming weeks as a string of former players will join me to discuss life after football and stories from The Lost Decade. Next week will be former free agent splash and All-Pro cornerback Ashley Ambrose.

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