Happy birthday, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton! Your present is … after nine seasons, you’ve been benched by the franchise you’ve called home since 2011.
That’s exactly what happened on Tuesday. Per a Tom Pelissero report, the Bengals will start rookie Ryan Finley after their upcoming bye week, a move that both helps the franchise see what it’s got in the NC State product and march on toward one of the league’s worst records.
But it’s also October 29, which marks Dalton’s 32nd birthday. Oof. It was a detail that pretty much everyone noticed and remarked on. Here are a sampling of tweets on the subject:
There is, however, another way to look at it that makes it seem like the best birthday present ever:
