Bengals vs Steelers Week 17 often ruins both teams play-off hopes

[kevin]

I see this is one of those seasons they have the final game of the season as Bengals vs Steelers. The Fans love it. They love the violence and the hate each team has for each other. The Fans will hope it ends up the night game to add to the intensity. Here is the problem. Of late when the Bengals and Steelers play this late in season, they do injure each other to the point neither team has a chance in the next week play-off game against whoever. Those play-off teams are good also and it's to their advantage that Bengals and Steelers put so many key players on injured list the week before. When these teams have met this late in season of last few years, it often causes one and done for whoever makes the play-offs.

The Bengals ve Steelers games have gone beyond violent to just dirty, late, cheap hit football. Big time wrestling fans may love it, but these games are very responsible for many of the new rule changes. Hopefully all these helmet hit rule changes, the players being thrown out of games faster changes, the low cheap shot changes, hopefully all the NFL rule changes may clean up this game enough to where the winner has enough healthy players to have a chance in the next week play-off game. The Fans may not like if it is a cleaner game, not as cheap and dirty hitting. The refs may just keep these teams from beating each others brains in and keep these teams healthier for the play-offs.