Bengals fans resurrect old items for sale while Cincinnati still hot

They're taking advantage of the team's successful season.
LEBANON, Ohio (AP) -- What's a can of 24-year-old beer worth? What if the can was a tribute to the Cincinnati Bengals' first Super Bowl season?
The Bengals plays Pittsburgh today in their first playoff game in 15 years, and tickets are going for hundreds of dollars over face value. There's also a brisk market for clothing with Bengals logos, and all kinds of memorabilia.
Jack Chrisman of Lebanon is willing to part with 150 cases of Hudepohl beer in cans he's been holding since that Cincinnati brewery issued them in 1981. They have Bengals stripes and "Hu-Dey" markings reminiscent of fans' "Who Dey" cheer -- "Who dey, who dey, who dey tink gonna' beat dem Bengals?"
How's it taste?
Chrisman, who had a business that served beer, sold 250 of the 400 cases he bought and stored the remaining 150 cases -- four 6-packs of cans to a case -- in his garage.
"I've been walking around them in my garage for years," Chrisman said. "I've got three stacks 10-feet high. I'd like to get rid of them."
He figures now is the time, and has placed classified ads asking $12.50 a 6-pack.
"They're in really good condition, just like brand-new, and still full of beer," said Chrisman, who paid $7 a case 24 years ago.
He just isn't sure what beer with a born-on date of 1981 tastes like.
"I've been told the longer they sit, the better they get," Chrisman said.
Another piece of memorabilia for sale is a lithograph of wildlife artist John Ruthven's "Bengal Tiger" painting from 1968, the Bengals' first year.
Jim and Helen Lutz of Mason are asking $2,500 for the 30-by-40-inch framed lithograph signed by the artist, one of 1,000 in the limited edition. The first in the series went to late Bengals' founder Paul Brown.
Time to sell
"We've had ours since 1968, but we recently moved and we have a number of other prints," said Jim Lutz. "With the Bengals' success this season, we thought this would be the opportune time to sell it."
Shirley Matre of Loveland is asking $60 for a set of four Bengals drinking glasses imprinted with the schedule of the inaugural 1968 season.
"They've just been sitting in the basement, and with the way the Bengals have been going this season, I thought it might be the time to sell them," she said.
Two siblings are selling their playoff tickets to avoid a family squabble.
"We decided to sell the playoff tickets so we wouldn't have an argument over who got them," said Debbie Hauck of Cincinnati, who splits a pair of regular season tickets with her brother.
"I may get some offers from Steelers fans, but I don't know if I would sell to them," Hauck said. "Even if a Steelers fan offered me more money than a Bengals fan, I probably would sell to the Bengals fan."