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To celebrate the Bengals 50 year history I am going to do a highlight of the greatest Bengal games for each week of the season.

 

The greatest week 3 game was in 1969 when the Bengals, in just their second year in existence, defeated that year's Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs 24-19.  The Bengals had only won 3 games the previous season while the Chiefs had the best record in the AFL (12-2).  Kansas City was missing Hall of Fame QB Len Dawson, but they went 6-0 in the other games he missed that year.  The Bengals were also missing their starting QB, Greg Cook, in the second half of the game due to an injury. 

 

The Chiefs took a 13-7 lead in the second quarter on an 11 yard pass from Jacky Lee to Gloster Richardson.  The Bengals were still trailing in the fourth quarter when back up QB Sam Wyche hit TE Bob Trumpy with an 80 yard TD strike to take a 17-13 lead.  Jess Phillips added a 10 yard td run and the Bengal defense held the Chiefs to a FG to secure the win. 

 

The victory boosted the Bengals record to 3-0.  Unfortunately they only won one more game the rest of the year to finish 4-9-1, but their future looked bright behind rookie sensation Greg Cook.  Cook finished as the highest rated QB in the league and posted and incredible 9.4 yards per pass attempt which still ranks as the 9th best in NFL/AFL history.

 

Other notable week 3 wins in Bengal history.

 

1986..Bengals blow out Division Champion Cleveland Browns 30-13 (the year they lost to Denver in the AFC Championship game on "The Drive") behind career high 3 rushing TDS by Larry Kinnebrew.  Bengals won 10 games that year but missed the playoffs.  Interesting to note that this was a Thursday night game.  I do not remember there being Thursday night games in 1986.

 

1989..Boomer Esiason throws 3 tds in another prime time victory (21-14 Monday Night) against a Browns team that would again win the division and lose to the Broncos in the Conference Championship Game.

 

2005..Bengals force 6 turnovers and blow out NFC North Champion Chicago Bears 24-7 despite gaining only 244 yards on offense.

 

2013..Bengals trail NFC North Champion Green Bay Packers by 16 points (30-14) with only 5 minutes left in the third quarter.  Andy Dalton goes insane (9-10, 132 yds, 2 tds) while Aaron Rodgers chokes (2 ints), and Terrance Newman completes the comeback with a 58 yard fumble return with less than 4 minutes leftin the game.  Bengals win 34-30.

 

 

 

 

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