Turn back the clock to 1990, and you will find the last time that the Cincinnati Bengals beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in three straight games. In fact, the Bengals reeled off a string of six straight victories over their arch-enemies, beginning with the 1998 season.
Unfortunately, that type of domination is rare, at least from the Cincinnati perspective. Pittsburgh leads the rivalry 67-37-0, including a string of 11 straight wins that began with the second game of the 2015 season and finally ended last season.
The rivalry has seen more than its fair share of brutal hits, from Kimo von Oelhoffen’s destruction of Carson Palmer’s knee in the 2005 wild card playoff game, to Hines Ward’s blindside block on Keith Rivers in 2009 to Vontaze Burfict’s infamous shot to the head of Antonio Brown during the 2015 wildcard playoff meltdown.