02-04-2022, 09:55 AM
Thank you, Science Friction for such an enjoyable post. ELO is also one of my favorites. I like the "Strange Magic" song along with "Ma Belle." If you ever watch the Tom Hanks' movie "Larry Crowne," they do a really neat job with the opening credits with "Hold on Tight." There's a bunch of montage screens flashing all over the place during the song showing Tom Hanks' Larry Crowne character and a bunch of coworkers happily working at a big box retail store before he gets fired in the opening scene and sets into motion the story for the movie.
For me, the whole Bengals season has a "hell freezes over" quality to it, especially the playoffs. I thought they could be at least a 500 team after they blew out the Ravens in Baltimore, but if you told me then they would go to the Super Bowl, I would have said you were nuts. If you think about it, though, if the whole season had gone the way the playoffs have gone, they would have beaten the 49ers, the Bears, the Jets, and the Chargers. On paper, the Chargers game looks like the worst loss of the season, but in the third quarter they were at the 50-yard line driving for a go-ahead score and a Charger defender swatted the ball from Joe Mixon's hands and another player ran the fumble back for a TD. That took the wind out of the sails.
Oh, and I forgot the Green Bay Packers game where Mr. Luck of the Irish would have made the FG that won it. So really, the first Cleveland game is the only one all year where the Bengals got soundly beaten. It's kind of fun though that with the losses it made the Bengals a perpetual underdog and let them fly under the radar. Surely, all three teams the Bengals beat in the playoffs were thinking yeah, we can beat 'em. They always suck in the playoffs. Not now!
For me, the whole Bengals season has a "hell freezes over" quality to it, especially the playoffs. I thought they could be at least a 500 team after they blew out the Ravens in Baltimore, but if you told me then they would go to the Super Bowl, I would have said you were nuts. If you think about it, though, if the whole season had gone the way the playoffs have gone, they would have beaten the 49ers, the Bears, the Jets, and the Chargers. On paper, the Chargers game looks like the worst loss of the season, but in the third quarter they were at the 50-yard line driving for a go-ahead score and a Charger defender swatted the ball from Joe Mixon's hands and another player ran the fumble back for a TD. That took the wind out of the sails.
Oh, and I forgot the Green Bay Packers game where Mr. Luck of the Irish would have made the FG that won it. So really, the first Cleveland game is the only one all year where the Bengals got soundly beaten. It's kind of fun though that with the losses it made the Bengals a perpetual underdog and let them fly under the radar. Surely, all three teams the Bengals beat in the playoffs were thinking yeah, we can beat 'em. They always suck in the playoffs. Not now!
