Thanks,, yeah I have one of those old helmets. Showing my age a little,, but started watching Cincy when they had those old unis (still a kid though back then).
The first year they changed to the striped helmet, it was the same year they went to the SB to face Joe Montana

Bengal Billy > whatever (yes that was the trolls username, great creativity)

ah yes. The Ice Bowl AFCCG to get there.

Goal line stand by SF to stop big Pete Johnson. That SB was a real lost opportunity for the Bengals.

We’ve all mentioned how big the Von Miller loss was for the Bills.

Let’s not forget that DaQuon Jones also wasn’t playing and Jordan Phillips played with a torn rotator cuff.

How would the Chiefs DL look without Jones and Clark while Saunders plays injured?

Yup. Old Bengals players said they knew as soon as they saw the Chargers come out of the tunnel that SD was already defeated that game. That weather brutal.

I've been to many cold-ass games in Cincy over the years but wasn't at that one thank goodness. Too young for that mess.

Yeah, that SB was such a good chance for Cincy but Joe Montana, what u gonna do?

Dan Bunz, no?

Agree, Bill's D-Line was non-existent last week and add the snow on top of it.

Bengals O-Line gonna get a real test this week.

I loved those helmets, and I liked those Cincy teams of the 70s -- Ken Anderson, Boobie Clark, Isaac Curtis, Ken Riley, Jim LeClair

Anderson one of my fave's for sure. Those 70's Cincy teams were pretty good, just had a lot of tough AFC teams back then to deal with

Couple of things.

1. You can’t judge Andy losing two championship games in a row as any basis for that. The fact he made two in a row with McNabb as his QB is impressive. Mahomes is light years better than Donovan.

2. Go to KC and get world class BBQ. Once you do you will understand just how disgusting Skyline Chili looks. Plus it’s so good you might change your team allegiance.

No better place in the world to be BBQ. I miss kc soooo much.

Well, that's true. McNabb was definitely no Mahomes.

mmm BBQ. You're making me hungry

Ok I finished watching all three Bunholes games (NFLN network is spamming the shit out of them - how about some Eagles/9ers or something?).

Takeaway is that while they were painful, especially last year's AFCCG, I feel a lot better about our chances tomorrow than I did before watching them. We were in all 3 games, and our D for the most part did better than I remembered, although they do seem to get gassed at the end of the game.

One thing I liked was Andy was noticeably more ballsy in this year's regular season game - going for it on 4th down when Mahomes did the Jordan dive.

I kept thinking in the AFCCG - what if we just handed the damn ball off on the 1-yard line before the half? Yes it's risky, but they'd never be expecting it. Has to work 80-90% of the time. Or just do one damn QB sneak. Mahomes doesn't have to fall down, he just needs to push the ball over the line and get out of harm's way. They would NEVER expect that. And as we saw, even passing is risky.

It looks to me like maybe Andy took that to heart and said **** it - we're going for it vs. these guys in the future. We need that. I'm sick of the fear of Mahomes forcing the other team to be correctly aggressive on 4th down, and us turtling up. I don't think they're going to get complacent this year if we get a lead. And the regular season game showed we can come back if we get behind.

I really think there's a good chance we come out and smoke these guys. If not, they're just the better team right now.

It's mind numbing how we lost that last game