ESPN: Cincinnati is full of crap.

Pat Forde never comes out and says it, but that's what his ESPN.com column basically says. It serves as a counterweight to rose-tinted memories of Cincinnati I channelled in my last post. My favorite moment:

In a puritanical purge in the 1970s, Cincinnati shoved most of the porn outlets across the river into northern Kentucky. They've stayed there. Covington has cleaned up its image and actually has turned its waterfront into a more vibrant area than Cincinnati's, but it still has the gentleman's clubs on its street corners.

They shoved the porn into Kentucky and the economy followed. Brilliant.