some interesting history of Bengals Bills series

[fredtoast]

See a pattern here?

 

11-8-70......Bengals start the season 1-6. Playing their third straight road game (and 5th of first 8) the Bengals offense can only muster 1 td. But Lemar Parrish returns a kick off 95 yards and a blocked kick 83 yards and Horst Mulhmann adds 5 FGs as the Bengals blow out the Bills 43-14. This victory starts a 7 game winning streak that gets the Bengals their first Division Championship and playoff appearance.

 

11-11-73....First time both teams played when they ended with winning records. Bills came into the game 5-3. Bengals were at 4-4.  Boobie Clark rushed for 98 yards and the Bengals only td. Isaac Curtis catches 5 passes for 94 yards. But the star is the Bengal Defense who holds the Bills to 180 total yards. Bengals win starts a 6 game winning streak that gets the Bengals their 2nd Division Championship and playoff appearance. 

 

11-27-81......Bills come into the game 2-1. The Bengals are also 2-1, but they are coming off a 6 win season. Bengals trail 21-10 in the fourth quarter, but come back to win 27-24 in overtime. Ken Anderson completes passes to 10 different players in another epic game (28-40, 328 yds, 3 td, 0 int). Bengals go on to finsh 12-4.

 

10-2-11.....This was the first significant victory of the Andy Dalton era. We came into this game 1-2 with our only victory against the Browns. And most experts were surprised we were not 0-3. The Bills were 3-0 and coming off an upset of the Patriots. They were getting a lot of hype as the surprise team of the year. The Bills lead 17-3 at halftime. Dalton threw a td to Gresham in the third quarter and then ran for a td with 4 minutes left in the 4th quarter to tie the game 20-20. Nugent won it with a 43 yarder in overtime. This win started a 5 game winning streak that transformed the Bengals from a team perceived to be among the worst in the league to the playoff team it has been for four straight years.

 

Throughout the years victories over the Bills have been crucial staring points for playoff runs by the bengals.  Let's hope that happens again this week.

 

 

 

 

[|schotzee|]

Great stuff Fred!