The animosity hasn’t changed. But the fear is gone.
For oh, so many years, the Pittsburgh Steelers had the Cincinnati Bengals’ number.
Beginning in 1991, Pittsburgh won 46 of the next 60 games they played against the Bengals, including a string of 11 straight victories that started on December 13, 2015 and ran all the way to December 21, 2020.
The times, they are a changin’. Cincinnati has now won the last three meetings, including a last season’s 41-10 thrashing at home in the former Paul Brown Stadium.
Now, it is the Super Bowl runner-up Bengals who instill fear in the hearts of its opponents with one of the premier offenses in the National Football League, along with a defense that looks to take its place among the elite.