OK, be honest now, who saw THAT coming before last night's game?
At the Stonebrook Village Christmas dinner party last night I said, and this is the God's honest truth, that while I didn't expect a Steelers win last night, I did hold some hope that the first place Cincinnati Bengals would still be eminently capable of playing like the Cincy Bungles that we have come to know and love for a couple of generations now. Damned if that isn't exactly what happened. When we got home from the Party, the score was already 7-0 and in the blink of an eye, it was 21-0, still in the first quarter, and the game was essentially over.
Chris Collinsworth, who for my money is the best analyst currently working on network television, had a couple of great lines. One was, you couldn't tell which team was 9-4 and which was 5-8 coming into this one, and then he said that the Steelers were playing like the old time Steelers and that the Bengals were playing like the old time Bengals.
As I stated a couple of weeks ago, despite the fact the the Steelers are going nowhere, playoff-wise, that doesn't mean that you can't enjoy each game on it's own merits, one that can be fun to watch and entertaining, and especially satisfying if your team happens to win it. Such was the case last night. And while the Steelers have many problems, and they are great (as Chas Noll would put it), you have to say that, with one or two exceptions, their games have been extremely entertaining this season.
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