The Cincinnati Bengals are preparing to play in their second consecutive conference finals on Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs, hoping to return to the Super Bowl and this time win it, after coming up just short a year ago.
The Pittsburgh Steelers would love to have the Bengals’ problems right now, not something that historically has been said very often. Comparing the histories of the respective organizations, at least during the Super Bowl era, there simply is no competition.
But they play in the present, not the past, and that’s where Cincinnati prevails, which Steelers president Art Rooney II virtually conceded during a pool reporter interview on Friday that was broadcast on 93.