There is Madden 18, but call this one PB 70 as the Bengals stun John Madden's Super Bowl favorite Raiders, 31-21, in the season opener. The Raiders have lost only two games since Joe Willie's Cinderella Jets beat them in the 1968 AFL title game and both losses have been to the three-year-old Bengals. But it’s more than that. It's the first regular-season football game in Riverfront Stadium, coming just a few months after baseball's All-Star Game and in the middle of the Reds run to the National League pennant that gives the structure quite a christening and a foreshadowing of its rich history.
TDBH: P.B. draws it up to shock Raiders again
