Now Johnson is answering another call from the Bengals. Right after they rang on draft day (actually, wife Jane answered because he was in class), his dad bought four season tickets and he's had them ever since.
"Great seats. About 15 rows behind the Bengals bench at about the 47," Johnson says. "My daughter has absconded with the tickets. She goes religiously."
Johnson goes about once a year and it's usually with an out-of-towner. But as religiously as Anna attends the games, Johnson watches at home and loves re-running it to watch the offensive line.
Every game.
"I think they're going to be better," says Johnson, a big fan of current center Trey Hopkins as he comes back from ACL surgery. "I thought he was spectacular last year. I hope his knee is OK. I assume it is because they traded Billy Price and I thought he played better this preseason than he's ever played. The tackles are so important in pass protection and I think they're going to be better."
He's also all in on Joe Burrow.
"I think he's class act. He's about everything, right?" Johnson says. "A great sounding kid. Big, strong and as accurate as can be. I just hope he's healthy. We'll find out."
When Johnson took that first home snap (Sunday is just three days shy of the 53rd anniversary and that storybook win over Denver), Nippert Stadium was filled to capacity with 25,049 fans. Johnson remembers the coats and ties and how there seemed to be the same number of women and children as there were men, a rarity, Johnson thought, in cities across the league.
"I know it was a different era, but it was also Cincinnati," Johnson says.
There'll be a lot more fans than that Sunday and if there is a tie in the house it's going to overtime.
But No. 54 is in the middle again.
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