A Facebook user and Milwaukee Brewers fan posted June 25 that he and his sons visited Great American Ball Park as part of an annual trip to see their team on the road against the Cincinnati Reds and received an unexpected and pleasant surprise from Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor.
“So this is crazy!” user AE Gamez posted. “My sons and I did our annual away Brewer game/series. This year vs the Reds. On the afternoon of day 2 we are out walking around and went to check out the Bengals stadium. As we are walking along the backside by the river, looking at the stadium, an SUV pulls up, window goes down, guy asks us if we were from Milwaukee because he noticed the Brewer swag, we said yes.”
“Then asked if we are football fans, and we said yes,” Gamez continued in the post. “Then said, I assume you are Packer fans and we said yes. His final question, want a tour of our stadium? and that’s when my oldest son recognized him and said, ‘Wait you’re Coach Taylor!!!!'” And he said yes, meet me at the gate about 50 yards up. He takes off, we start running.”
“Met with him, introduces himself and proceeds to give us a full tour of the players locker room, training facility, takes us through the tunnel that the players go out onto the field and then introduces us to the owner because he was out on the field doing his daily walk,” Gamez added. “We couldn’t believe it. Coach was amazing and we don’t know what we did to deserve that. After we left we were still in shock. It was an amazing experience and we couldn’t stop talking about it. Went to the pro shop and bought some Bengals caps. I guess we can add Paycor Stadium to our list alongside Great American Ball Park on the same trip. Great city, great fans to include three additional Bengals fans!”
The Brewers completed a three-game sweep of the Reds.
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