The Bengals and Bills Get a Taste of Cleveland

Sometimes you just don't know how things are going to turn out. A case in point. Your on a Sunday drive, its a beautiful day out, your taking in the scenery, everything looks great. All of a sudden one of your tires has a blowout, you lose control of the car, and hit a tree. The Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills had such a blowout. Which goes to show anything can happen, especially when it comes to a football game.

The Bengals had taken the lead on a Cedric Benson 1 yard run for a touchdown making it 7-6 with only 38 seconds left. Celebration broke out on the Bengals bench. Everything looked great at that point. Then came the unexpected blowout. Denver was on their 13 yard line, Orton nearly had his first pass intercepted. The next play Orton threw a pass in the direction of Brandon Marshall that was deflected into the air and the rest is one for the archives. The ball floated into the hands of Brandon Stokely in full stride and he took it the 87 yards for a touchdown leaving only 11 seconds left. Broncos over the Bengals 12-7.

Buffalo Bills were still leading the Patriots even though they just scored a touchdown on a Brady pass to Watson making the score 24-19. New England missed the two-point conversion and the score remained 24-19. There was a few seconds left before the two-minute warning and New England was set to kickoff. Things were still looking good for the Bills and they had to be feeling pretty comfortable at this point. They were going to be in control of the ball. Then the blowout came. McKelvin returned the kickoff and fumbled the ball. New England recovered it on the 31 and the rest is for the archives. Brady connected with Watson again for the touchdown and the score was 25-24 after the extra point was made with 50 seconds showing on the clock. Game over.

If this is an indication of what the football season is going to be like, its going to be entertaining. Well, for some, depending on what side of the ball you are on. Brown's fans thought those kind of things only happened in Cleveland. At least the Bowns didn't lose by having a blowout and hitting a tree, they just had a meltdown. If what happened to the Bengals and Bills would have happened to Cleveland on Sunday, the fans would be walking around like zombies.