This......this game right here broke me. I'm not even joking. I still love football......but this was the moment I realized it was ridiculous to care about sports as much as I did and time to grow up.
This game broke me in a slightly different direction. Some of the hits that game were so vicious and purposely needlessly cruel from both sides, I seriously considered not watching football anymore. Like I love watching a big hit compilation. But something about this game made me kinda sick to my stomach. I think football could stand to learn from hockey on this and have an unofficial enforcer system. There were a lot of jerks on both sides of that ball, but if football treated dirty play the way hockey does, burfict would've been out of the league with a busted head a long time before he got to rearrange Antonio brown's brain. I think a lot of ABs lunacy started here, and when he dies I'm positive his brain is gonna look like Swiss cheese.
@@kev25811 Honestly same. The refs lost control of this early and this was the game that first made me question whether football needed to exist anymore. The Steelers moved on, but no one won that game.
@@jamessabatier414 nah that was a couple years later, when he was trying to do the same thing, i think even to the same guy, but missed the tackle and landed funny
@@cincyplayer11 Looking back on it, yeah, they really did. Never struck me until now as even 7 years later the memory of this game has been nothing but a cloud of anger & heartbreak.
I’ll never forget that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette front page was captioned “Nobody’s Burfict” the day after this game. First game winning kick I’ve ever seen live also.
I’ll never forget this win. I was reaching for my remote to turn the tv off because I was so upset we were about to lose when the fumble happened. I couldn’t believe my eyes
Man as a lifelong Bengals I cried so much watching this game, so angry with Pacman, and Vontez I HATED those steelers teams, and even until this day I still do. What a wasted oppurtunity tho...
Chisom Watson as a Steelers fan the feeling is mutual can't stand yall was happy when yall lost the super bowl even though it would have helped the division and all Doo-Doo Browns would had to do was win 🏆 then our division would have been the 2nd one completed with super bowls🏈 but would never stop hearing it from yall
If Brown catches the ball it's a clean hit, Burfict had no way of knowing his head was going to be where it was. Brown was leaping in the air when Burfict went in for the hit
As a Ravens fan, I normally enjoy watching the Steelers lose almost as much as I enjoy watching the Ravens win. However, this game was almost poetic justice. Cincy couldn't even hold off on the cheap shots and dirty hits long enough to win their first playoff game in no one remembers how long. Then, they left the Steelers so bloody and bruised that it probably hurt them in the next round. You know what, I changed my mind. I don't care if the Steelers won -- this game was awesome!
As a Steelers fan who has seen all their Super Bowl wins and so many great games, this stands out as one of their most bizarre and improbable wins. First Ben was hurt by a questionable Burfict hit, then Hill fumbled when all they had to do was run out the clock and Ben came back despite being obviously injured. Then the implosion with Burfict's criminal hit on AB and Pacman totally getting punked by Joey Porter. I have never seen a game like it. and I loved it.
5:19 The funniest thing about that is that that he was barred from getting physically involved in wrestling matches, so his tag team partner Ron Killings did all the work for him.
Yeah, last season all I wanted was for us to finally win a playoff game. Just getting to the SB was more than I ever could have wished for & even though we lost I still consider last season to be the greatest season of the Bengals in my 22 years of being a die-hard Bengals fan. Nothing but pride for what that roster achieved last year!
This game was so satisfying as a Steelers fan because just as Marcus Gilbert said... the Bengals would find a way to choke in the final moments... of course we couldn't have seen all those penalties coming but if you go back & rewatch the game.... you'll see it was almost inevitable that something was going to go wrong for them.
He put up 480 and 525 yards on the Ravens just because their defensive coordinator said he wasn’t ready to wear a gold jacket 😂 🤣. Heard he was staring at his locker on Sunday for “multiple hours” still wearing his uniform from the game.
As an Arizona State alumnus, all I can say about Burfict is that he got Dennis Erickson fired at ASU, and I was grateful as hell he didn't come back for his senior season under a new coach. Everything he did in the pros he did in the Pac 12. I was genuinely shocked when the Bengals picked him up as a free agent. I knew he was poison then.
You should have included the bit where the Bengals fans were raining down beer bottles and garbage on Big Ben as he was being carted off the field. That was what convinced me of the bad blood even from the fanbase. My mom and I saw this game live and she was horrified at the entire game. To this day, it's one of the few NFL games she can easily remember.
HE also didnt mention the fact that the steelers were celebrating giving giovanni bernard a concussion. Or the fact that joey porter shouldn't have been on the field.
That Burfict hit on AB, the fumble by CIN to giv PIT the ball, that Otherworldly Flipping catch By Martavis Bryant, this game was a Banger that im surprised I still remember, should be more regarded as one of the wildest wildcards ever 😂
I’ve still to this day never been as mad as a sports fan than I was watching the end of this game. Bengals fans really went through it with this era, but it makes the gratitude for the current team even more profound! Who Dey!
As a lifelong Bengals fan I still describe this as the greatest sporting moment ive been a part of and poured my heart into, just happened to be memorable for all the wrong reasons!
Watching the Bengals complete implosion & meltdown along with seeing the complete 180 of the entire crowd into stunning disbelief was almost worth the heartbreak of the Steelers loss to Denver the following week
This is a 14 min video but doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what this game meant to as a bengals fan. This bengals team also started 10-0 and were beating other very good teams. Andy Dalton was having his best season and was dropping dimes. I remember I went to the KC@CIN game at Andy threw probably a 50 yard bomb on the run. Also the defense was downright scary. Up until Andy got hurt I really thought we were going to go far in the playoffs. Then the injury happened and I thought it was over. My hopes were lost. We played the Steelers and I expected to lose… once again as per usual in the month of January. Then AJ Green catches an absolute bomb from McCaron and we get the immediate INT. I was so happy, I don’t even know what I did but it finally ended. My entire life id never seen a playoff win. Then… well Jeremy Hill fumbles, then this happened. This blew up the entire team. We didn’t see success again until 2021, and I don’t believe there’s even one player from that 2015 season. Happy to have the Bengals squad we have now but that 2015 group may have been better if healthy all the way through.
Note: Kevin Huber is the only player from that 2015 team still there in 2022. As a fellow Bengals fan, I just hope we at least match the regular-season output from last year. Anything less and we'll be called a fluke.
My dad grew up a lifelong Bengals fan. When I started following football and was ready to choose a favorite team, I naturally leaned towards the Bengals. Excepted he insisted I pick another team because of how dysfunctional and disappointing the Bengals had been all his life, which he didn't want me to deal with as a fan. Turns out I picked the Steelers and have been a fan ever since.
I became a bengals fan when I was 7 because I had no idea how to change the teams in madden 07, (goated madden btw). Man, growing up around a good amount of Steelers fans, this one still haunts me till this day, even with the amazing run we had last season. Burfict was one of those guys you loved having on your team at the time, but when he would slip, it would be so frustrating to watch it unfold. Great video. Love the channel and the content you guys put out. Was really cool to see a bengals rewind.
Is it strange to say as a diehard Bengals fan that I would've tried to defend you? I was so dejected when that happened and knew it was 95-ish percent our fault (Porter should've been flagged), I personally wouldn't have been that mad at a Steelers fan cheering his team on when one of their biggest rivals just handed them a playoff win on a silver platter.
Steelers fan here. This was the game that won me over as a fan forever. I remember watching it in the middle of the night at my grandparents hosue and I wanted to scream and shout the house into the ground out of sheer excitement, but I needed to be quiet, because everyone else was sleeping. So it was just me and the game. After that game I decided, I would heavily invest time to learn the game and well, the rest "is history".
I remember this game so well. My family was having our Christmas party. My whole family was born and raised in Pittsburgh so we were loosing it. We were watching the game on a small tv in a banquet hall we rented out.
I was listening to this game on the radio. As soon as Burfict got that last interception and started celebrating afterwards, I was like “watch us find a way to lose”. We did.
Nothing makes Steelers fans more happy than seeing Bengals fans sad and angry. I remember this game like it was yesterday and I probably always will. This was the super bowl to me that year. Good times.
I’ll never forget watching this game in California when I used to live there, being someone who was born in Cincinnati, rooting for my team even through the “Bungles”, Akili Smith, and so on. Corey Dillon, being one of the only highlight for the team, lost a fan in me when he dissed my little brother for an autograph. Taking all the brunt for how we played even after when Palmer took us to the playoffs, I was in Navy Boot Camp and missed that game. Celebrating for a while I alone, until I found one guy, post military who was also #whodeynation, and watching with the ONLY Bengals fan I knew in the West Coast. Every High and Low…. The Burfict hit… then “The Pac-Man Penalty”…. I have never felt so much energy sucked out of me from watching my team. Both of us, fell silent, then just so much anger. We never forget this moment. We knew where it brought us back too. Back to the bottom. But here we are today. I now live back in Ohio and got to actually see the Bengals end the playoff drought, in Cincinnati, while my boy Charles got to see them in the Super Bowl. It’s been a rough and rowdy ride being a Bengals fan, but it’s forever #Whodey!
Yeah and the video literally makes no mention of that fact that if they had called that, which would have been the correct call. It would have meant offsetting penalties and drastically altered the outcome of the game. This game is a monument to the bullshit of the Steelers. Make a whole identity out of being the tough bad guy who celebrates injuring people and then cry when someone turns it on them. This game was 100% proof there is no god because that Steeler's coaching staff was from Hell and all wicked psychos that encouraged the worst possible kind of behavior but it was all done in a time where that stuff was encouraged in the sport. Hines Ward literally broke Keith Rivers jaw, leading with his helmet into his chin. They went low on Palmer's leg in a playoff game. They are without a doubt the dirtiest organization in all of sports and yet because they won 50 years ago enough, they get the pass. SMH.
@@SahFriendly There is a God; Ryan Shazier miraculously blew out his entire spine by himself during a match-up the following year and never played football again :) meanwhile Bernard went on to keep tearing it up
I knew we'd hear about Big Ben's radio show. Like definitely a positive team culture building decision. I can't see how that'll backfire on the Steelers.
I remember accidentally watching this game. I never cared for actually viewing football that much out of my favorite team, and that team was neither the bengals or the Steelers however, from the moment the game started playing, I was absolutely enthralled. I could see all the emotions of the players, how tough each one is as fighting, how brutal they were willing to be to win. After that, I couldn’t look away.
Side effect of this collapse: If CIN would have won, the Bengals would have gone to New England, while KC would have played Denver in the divisional round. Instead, the Broncos got an injured Steelers team while the Pats got the Chiefs. As a Chiefs fan who watched KC drill Denver in Denver just a month prior, I was furious. To this day, I firmly believe the Broncos owe Burfict a Super Bowl ring.
Keep in mind the steelers almost beat the broncos too even though the steelers entire offense was obliterated. I remember that game was just a hurt Ben tossing it around to a bunch of no-names, the exception being Martavis Bryant. It was a weird playoffs that year and the Broncos got lucky many times.
As a Steelers fan 2015 was a year I’d wanna get back. If we were healthy were in the AFC championship game against NE with a strong chance to make the SB. There’s no way we lose the Carolina with our explosive offense. Would’ve been the 2nd time in Ben’s career that he won a SB without a home playoff game.
I will always love the Bengals - their grit in winning an end of the year game where they were already out of the playoffs helped the Bills to end the awful 17-year playoff drought!
My brother and I were watching the game together. When the Burfict got that pick, my brother was about to dip, but he was like, 'It's the Bungles. They'll find a way to miraculously lose this game.' Lo and behold, that Hill fumble happened and we laughed throughout the entire end of the game. Good times, man...
This was the type of game to make a man not know whether to laugh, cry, or punch a hole through the drywall. I didn’t say a word and went straight to bed and tried to forget it ever happened. I avoided the replay of these events for 3 years.
As a bengals fan who grew up loving these marvin lewis and burfict teams, I think the reason that I loved them so much was how much they cared, they may be stupid, but they cared so much. SO often I feel like fans care more than some players, but pacman, burfict, and jeremy hill, cared about winning and their teammates. Glad the bengals have that attitude back, because from 16-19 it was not like that. And, now the players aren't stupid and they still care.
Roethlisberger trotting back out onto the field for that game winning drive still gives me goosebumps. After Bengals fans threw bottles at him as he was being carted off and Burfict throwing a whole party in the endzone, I just knew somehow he'd find a way to win. I just never foresaw it happening the way it did. Important note: in this season Burfict managed to knock out all 3 "Killer Bs". Bell's knee in that first match-up, Brown was concussed from Burfict's hit and couldn't play in the divisional round, and Ben was forced to play with an obviously limp shoulder in the divisional round. Their divisional round match-up was against the soon-to-be superbowl champion Broncos. They almost won that game if it weren't for a fumble by the steelers backup RB late in the game. So while the Steelers won this game, Burfict's hits likely cost the steelers a deeper playoff run.
Your channel always impresses me. Games are never won by one play. 11 vs. 11 happens for a reason. You do a great job explaining this. This game is all about bad decisions.
The day after this was posted, the bengals lost to the steelers in an even more inexplicable way somehow. Not even a super bowl can break the bengals curse of losing to the steelers in impossible ways.
It’s also wild how this game started ABs total decline. He may have always been like he is today, but I feel like that Burfict hit broke him mentally, or at least broke his ability to control himself.
I have to give a shout out to the sick td catch Martavis Bryant made in this game. The one where he caught it between his legs while rolling over and the ball ended up on his back caught.
This is one of the top 5 most memorable games I've ever watched. Just a complete meltdown in the truest since of the word. Soooo glad I'm not a Bengals fan. I would still be steaming
Every Bengals fan i know had their heart ripped out and tossed in a blender over this game. I quit watching football for a couple seasons after this game.
I love Football sooooooooo much. As a Steelers fan I still can't believe we won this game. We should've beat Denver a week later but we had no Bell or Brown. But still had a chance to win that game in the end but the rookie RB fumbled. He played a heck of a game too up until that fumble. I still feel bad for that kid.
Moving all the yards per play together to show the penalties as the longest plays of the drive was genius editing. It really drove the point home... Nice job.
Bro we just went to the damn super bowl and this game still lives rent free in my head. Like the 05 playoff game hurt. Probably worse for me than most Bengals fans because I was 13 at the time lol. But at least that loss wasn't embarrassing. Can't do much about your superstar QB going out early. This 15 game was just... man to this day Jeremy Hill is a pariah in Cincinnati. We could embarrass the Steelers in the AFC Championship in similar fashion and I don't think I'll get over this game.
So as a wrestling fan I feel like I need to elaborate for any of y’all non wrestling fans about Pacman Jones’ TNA wrestling career. So basically he signs with TNA, which at the time was the 2nd biggest wrestling promotion in the US. The Titans were not a fan of that so they protested and said that if Jones did anything physical they would sue TNA and void Jones’ contract. At the 2007 No Surrender ppv Team Pacman won the tag team championship. During the match Jones spent the entire match on the ring apron and never tagged in while his partner, Ron Killings wrestled a 2v1 handicap match and won the titles. They would hold the titles for 35 days and would lose them at the 2007 Bound for Glory ppv where Consequences Creed would be a substitute to Pacman Jones so it would not be another handicap match. Pacman Jones left TNA soon there after, Ron Killings would become R-Truth in WWE, Consequences Creed would become Xavier Woods in WWE, and wrestling journalists acted like upset children because Pacman Jones was making it rain on tv and that was an abomination to the already ridiculously stupid sport of Pro Wrestling.
I don't think the wrestling journos were upset at Pacman for making it rain. I think they were upset that they were using something that Pacman did in real life that led to somebody getting shot and paralyzed as part of an angle. Hell, Mike Tenay yelled "he's picking up the bucks like a dancer at the club" when Earl Hebner scrambled to pick up Pacman's money.
@@JJ-fg2wd Meltzer gave the signing of Pacman Jones and said making it rain on tv the most disgusting promotional tactic because it led to the paralysis of a wrestler in a strip club.
I remember exactly where I was watching. Broke my heart. I love the Bengals deeply but this was truly a bleak moment for the city. Awful in so many ways and we deserved it
I remember saying to myself after that embarrassing display by the Bengals, Marvin Lewis should’ve been given the Pink Slip (fired) the next day, because, he had lost control of the team when the opportunity to finally win a playoff game was there, and it all fell apart.
Note: Joey Porter should have been flagged for being on the field in the first place. A linebacker coach had no right to be on the field during an injury timeout with their offense on the field. Now because of him, only head coaches are now allowed on the field during injury timeouts.
Actually, all coaches were allowed to be on the field during injuries then. That rule was implemented after that game. The only reason a flag would be thrown would be if he was taunting or something, but even Burfict said that Porter really wasn't doing anything.
As a Cincinnati fan this loss was utterly devastating. Time heals all wounds and now I can say that I'm glad they lost this because Burrow breaking the curse these past playoffs was so much sweeter
As a Bengals fan, this game hurt way more than the super bowl loss
Agreed. This one stung horrendously bad
Yall deserved it man....I absolutely couldn't believe my eyes during this game
Same bro
As a stiller fan… good
@@MichaelScott-es5gy I can't tell what's worse, your attempt at trolling or spelling.
This......this game right here broke me. I'm not even joking. I still love football......but this was the moment I realized it was ridiculous to care about sports as much as I did and time to grow up.
I feel you. I recently went through that change myself
This game broke me in a slightly different direction. Some of the hits that game were so vicious and purposely needlessly cruel from both sides, I seriously considered not watching football anymore.
Like I love watching a big hit compilation. But something about this game made me kinda sick to my stomach.
I think football could stand to learn from hockey on this and have an unofficial enforcer system.
There were a lot of jerks on both sides of that ball, but if football treated dirty play the way hockey does, burfict would've been out of the league with a busted head a long time before he got to rearrange Antonio brown's brain. I think a lot of ABs lunacy started here, and when he dies I'm positive his brain is gonna look like Swiss cheese.
@@kev25811 Honestly same. The refs lost control of this early and this was the game that first made me question whether football needed to exist anymore. The Steelers moved on, but no one won that game.
I imagine the AFC Championship last year changed your mind
@@kev25811 nope, ab was a psycho even in college
The most violent game I've ever seen in my life
This or the game where shazier got hurt if you remember that
@@jamessabatier414 nah that was a couple years later, when he was trying to do the same thing, i think even to the same guy, but missed the tackle and landed funny
Refs allowed the game to get completely out of hand.
Steelers Ravens 08 AFC championship
@@cincyplayer11 Looking back on it, yeah, they really did. Never struck me until now as even 7 years later the memory of this game has been nothing but a cloud of anger & heartbreak.
The game that started Antonio Browns downward spiral
Downright depressing...
Quit with the false narrative he suffered a mild, grade 1 concussion from Burfict.. that's literally who AB is
Nope. He was always n idiot
@@neveroutofbounds3401 so it’s better that he was always a POS?
@@paisan8766 no one said that just saying the CTE excuse is he should be held accountable for his actions
I’ll never forget that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette front page was captioned “Nobody’s Burfict” the day after this game. First game winning kick I’ve ever seen live also.
I’ll never forget this win. I was reaching for my remote to turn the tv off because I was so upset we were about to lose when the fumble happened. I couldn’t believe my eyes
Only children get upset about losing a game. Especially one they aren't even playing
@@Mr.StevenKerr Respectfully, that's one of the dumbest and softest things I've ever read.
@@Mr.StevenKerr Another lonely Saturday huh?
@@Mr.StevenKerr Good thing we didn’t lose then I guess😁
@@Mr.StevenKerr sounds like you're upset about losing that game 🤡
Man as a lifelong Bengals I cried so much watching this game, so angry with Pacman, and Vontez I HATED those steelers teams, and even until this day I still do. What a wasted oppurtunity tho...
if i was a benglas fan i would have yelled at burfict through my TV for about an hour
Well I think y'all have a bright future
SteelerNation 🖤💛🤷🏾♂️ we winning the super bowl no drug test needed
Chisom Watson as a Steelers fan the feeling is mutual can't stand yall was happy when yall lost the super bowl even though it would have helped the division and all Doo-Doo Browns would had to do was win 🏆 then our division would have been the 2nd one completed with super bowls🏈 but would never stop hearing it from yall
I can’t speak for everyone, but that timeframe of yelling for an hour sounds about right, yeah.
The dirty hit on Antonio Brown aside, how volatile this game got is something I can't help but be fascinated by still.
Clean hit. Brown shoulda kept his head up.
@@dedgzus6808 maybe in the delusion you live in, but out here in the real world that was not a clean hit by any definition
@@Crosroad If brown would have kept his head up then he wouldn't have gotten it hit by burfict's shoulder.
@@dedgzus6808 he jumped up awkwarly for a ball and came down...how about Burfict just doesnt hit him illegaly and the bengals win?
If Brown catches the ball it's a clean hit, Burfict had no way of knowing his head was going to be where it was. Brown was leaping in the air when Burfict went in for the hit
As a Ravens fan, I normally enjoy watching the Steelers lose almost as much as I enjoy watching the Ravens win. However, this game was almost poetic justice. Cincy couldn't even hold off on the cheap shots and dirty hits long enough to win their first playoff game in no one remembers how long. Then, they left the Steelers so bloody and bruised that it probably hurt them in the next round. You know what, I changed my mind. I don't care if the Steelers won -- this game was awesome!
As a Steelers fan who has seen all their Super Bowl wins and so many great games, this stands out as one of their most bizarre and improbable wins. First Ben was hurt by a questionable Burfict hit, then Hill fumbled when all they had to do was run out the clock and Ben came back despite being obviously injured. Then the implosion with Burfict's criminal hit on AB and Pacman totally getting punked by Joey Porter. I have never seen a game like it. and I loved it.
How about Shazier’s dirty hit on Gio
The steelers are the dirtiest team ever
5:19 The funniest thing about that is that that he was barred from getting physically involved in wrestling matches, so his tag team partner Ron Killings did all the work for him.
As a Bengals fan, This game easily brought me more grief than the Super Bowl loss.
Yeah, last season all I wanted was for us to finally win a playoff game. Just getting to the SB was more than I ever could have wished for & even though we lost I still consider last season to be the greatest season of the Bengals in my 22 years of being a die-hard Bengals fan. Nothing but pride for what that roster achieved last year!
Bengals fans deserve it
I love the Bengals and this was such an iconic Marvin Lewis era game- just a hot mess of talent/luck/unhinged passion to win going all wrong.
This game was so satisfying as a Steelers fan because just as Marcus Gilbert said... the Bengals would find a way to choke in the final moments... of course we couldn't have seen all those penalties coming but if you go back & rewatch the game.... you'll see it was almost inevitable that something was going to go wrong for them.
Aye Chisled Adonis a Steelers fan! You earned a sub brutha
A price they paid for a small ray in the sun. Also as soon as I saw your comment I just thought, "cry me a river." Keep making great content champ.
Waitttttt a minuteeeeee
AFC North is one the best divisions for rivalries
He put up 480 and 525 yards on the Ravens just because their defensive coordinator said he wasn’t ready to wear a gold jacket 😂 🤣. Heard he was staring at his locker on Sunday for “multiple hours” still wearing his uniform from the game.
As an Arizona State alumnus, all I can say about Burfict is that he got Dennis Erickson fired at ASU, and I was grateful as hell he didn't come back for his senior season under a new coach. Everything he did in the pros he did in the Pac 12. I was genuinely shocked when the Bengals picked him up as a free agent. I knew he was poison then.
You should have included the bit where the Bengals fans were raining down beer bottles and garbage on Big Ben as he was being carted off the field. That was what convinced me of the bad blood even from the fanbase. My mom and I saw this game live and she was horrified at the entire game. To this day, it's one of the few NFL games she can easily remember.
Out of all the players in the world, Ben deserves that the most tbh
Ben deserved it
HE also didnt mention the fact that the steelers were celebrating giving giovanni bernard a concussion. Or the fact that joey porter shouldn't have been on the field.
@@justinm4839 celebrating the fumble and the turnover on the play not the injury use your head man
@@michaelwinter451 quite possibly the worst take I’ve ever seen in my life.
That Burfict hit on AB, the fumble by CIN to giv PIT the ball, that Otherworldly Flipping catch By Martavis Bryant, this game was a Banger that im surprised I still remember, should be more regarded as one of the wildest wildcards ever 😂
I’ve still to this day never been as mad as a sports fan than I was watching the end of this game. Bengals fans really went through it with this era, but it makes the gratitude for the current team even more profound! Who Dey!
As a lifelong Bengals fan I still describe this as the greatest sporting moment ive been a part of and poured my heart into, just happened to be memorable for all the wrong reasons!
Haha stillers won🥱
This was a lot better than I thought it was gonna be, thanks for the continued great work.
This game was CRAZY…..I remember watching. That 4th quarter was like 30 damn mins.
and to think that todays wild ass game happened a day after this dropped? its almost poetic.
Watching the Bengals complete implosion & meltdown along with seeing the complete 180 of the entire crowd into stunning disbelief was almost worth the heartbreak of the Steelers loss to Denver the following week
This is a 14 min video but doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what this game meant to as a bengals fan. This bengals team also started 10-0 and were beating other very good teams. Andy Dalton was having his best season and was dropping dimes. I remember I went to the KC@CIN game at Andy threw probably a 50 yard bomb on the run. Also the defense was downright scary. Up until Andy got hurt I really thought we were going to go far in the playoffs. Then the injury happened and I thought it was over. My hopes were lost. We played the Steelers and I expected to lose… once again as per usual in the month of January. Then AJ Green catches an absolute bomb from McCaron and we get the immediate INT. I was so happy, I don’t even know what I did but it finally ended. My entire life id never seen a playoff win. Then… well Jeremy Hill fumbles, then this happened. This blew up the entire team. We didn’t see success again until 2021, and I don’t believe there’s even one player from that 2015 season. Happy to have the Bengals squad we have now but that 2015 group may have been better if healthy all the way through.
Note: Kevin Huber is the only player from that 2015 team still there in 2022. As a fellow Bengals fan, I just hope we at least match the regular-season output from last year. Anything less and we'll be called a fluke.
These videos always scratch the surface and do a mediocre job of explaining at best
I’m glad I can enjoy this video after making the Super Bowl this year because up until then, this moment right here? Still hurt.
Still lost week 1 😂
Not a fan of either team but it was def worth watching. What a game 😂
My dad grew up a lifelong Bengals fan. When I started following football and was ready to choose a favorite team, I naturally leaned towards the Bengals. Excepted he insisted I pick another team because of how dysfunctional and disappointing the Bengals had been all his life, which he didn't want me to deal with as a fan. Turns out I picked the Steelers and have been a fan ever since.
I became a bengals fan when I was 7 because I had no idea how to change the teams in madden 07, (goated madden btw). Man, growing up around a good amount of Steelers fans, this one still haunts me till this day, even with the amazing run we had last season. Burfict was one of those guys you loved having on your team at the time, but when he would slip, it would be so frustrating to watch it unfold. Great video. Love the channel and the content you guys put out. Was really cool to see a bengals rewind.
I (Steelers fan) was at a Bengals bar this game. I have never had so much beer and popcorn thrown at me by the end of this game... Still worth it.
You deserve that at any bar.
Nice
As a steelers fan born as raised in Baltimore, your efforts are saluted good sir
Ngl bro this sounds badass
Is it strange to say as a diehard Bengals fan that I would've tried to defend you? I was so dejected when that happened and knew it was 95-ish percent our fault (Porter should've been flagged), I personally wouldn't have been that mad at a Steelers fan cheering his team on when one of their biggest rivals just handed them a playoff win on a silver platter.
I cried so much. This really broke me. Deep inside
Steelers fan here. This was the game that won me over as a fan forever. I remember watching it in the middle of the night at my grandparents hosue and I wanted to scream and shout the house into the ground out of sheer excitement, but I needed to be quiet, because everyone else was sleeping. So it was just me and the game.
After that game I decided, I would heavily invest time to learn the game and well, the rest "is history".
Half of my family are Steelers fans so I've seen all of this game. Game was totally crazy. At least Bengals got Joe now and had a crazy run last year
I remember this game so well. My family was having our Christmas party. My whole family was born and raised in Pittsburgh so we were loosing it. We were watching the game on a small tv in a banquet hall we rented out.
I was listening to this game on the radio. As soon as Burfict got that last interception and started celebrating afterwards, I was like “watch us find a way to lose”. We did.
as a Saints fan I feel that statement to the fullest lmao.
@@voncinnamon1 as a Browns fan, you don't know the half of it
@@ck-1649 considering Watson passed us up to go to the Browns I will concede
Nothing makes Steelers fans more happy than seeing Bengals fans sad and angry. I remember this game like it was yesterday and I probably always will. This was the super bowl to me that year. Good times.
I’ll never forget watching this game in California when I used to live there, being someone who was born in Cincinnati, rooting for my team even through the “Bungles”, Akili Smith, and so on. Corey Dillon, being one of the only highlight for the team, lost a fan in me when he dissed my little brother for an autograph.
Taking all the brunt for how we played even after when Palmer took us to the playoffs, I was in Navy Boot Camp and missed that game. Celebrating for a while I alone, until I found one guy, post military who was also #whodeynation, and watching with the ONLY Bengals fan I knew in the West Coast.
Every High and Low…. The Burfict hit… then “The Pac-Man Penalty”…. I have never felt so much energy sucked out of me from watching my team. Both of us, fell silent, then just so much anger. We never forget this moment. We knew where it brought us back too. Back to the bottom.
But here we are today. I now live back in Ohio and got to actually see the Bengals end the playoff drought, in Cincinnati, while my boy Charles got to see them in the Super Bowl. It’s been a rough and rowdy ride being a Bengals fan, but it’s forever #Whodey!
Watching as Cincinnati actively tries to top this game today
Every week
I swear that hit by burfict is what caused Antonio Brown to go absolutely nuts for the rest of his career.
Not a totally unreasonable explanation. At the very least it’s one of those interesting theories that could never possibly be disproved or proved.
AB has always been an idiot beforehand, but I do feel like that hit by Burflict definitely worsened his behavior
So it was really Burfict in that hot tub jerkin his gerkin at random passerbys if you think about it.
I'll never understand what Pac Man was thinking.
Pac-man has always been a screw loose
From what I remember, he simply wasn't thinking at all. If he would have been, even just a tiny bit, he would not have committed that penalty.
The "full field" chart at the end was masterfully done. Quite creative with no bells n whistles. Great job
I'm still wondering what the hell Porter was doing in the Bengals huddle when he wasn't allowed on the field
Yeah and the video literally makes no mention of that fact that if they had called that, which would have been the correct call. It would have meant offsetting penalties and drastically altered the outcome of the game. This game is a monument to the bullshit of the Steelers. Make a whole identity out of being the tough bad guy who celebrates injuring people and then cry when someone turns it on them. This game was 100% proof there is no god because that Steeler's coaching staff was from Hell and all wicked psychos that encouraged the worst possible kind of behavior but it was all done in a time where that stuff was encouraged in the sport. Hines Ward literally broke Keith Rivers jaw, leading with his helmet into his chin. They went low on Palmer's leg in a playoff game. They are without a doubt the dirtiest organization in all of sports and yet because they won 50 years ago enough, they get the pass. SMH.
@@SahFriendly I think the saints take the #1 spot for being dirty. Coaches putting hits on opposing players is crazy
@@SahFriendly you sir are delusional
@@SahFriendly bro I’m so glad I’m not the only one who remembered what happened to lb Keith Rivers. The dude wasn’t even in the play
@@SahFriendly There is a God; Ryan Shazier miraculously blew out his entire spine by himself during a match-up the following year and never played football again :) meanwhile Bernard went on to keep tearing it up
I didn’t know something could age so well in just 24 hours.
When game first happened I was devasted and it hurt me for years but since they broke the curse under Joe Burrow that game can't hurt me no more
Whose here after the Steelers upset the Bengals in a wild week 1 overtime game?
I knew we'd hear about Big Ben's radio show. Like definitely a positive team culture building decision. I can't see how that'll backfire on the Steelers.
I remember accidentally watching this game. I never cared for actually viewing football that much out of my favorite team, and that team was neither the bengals or the Steelers however, from the moment the game started playing, I was absolutely enthralled. I could see all the emotions of the players, how tough each one is as fighting, how brutal they were willing to be to win. After that, I couldn’t look away.
I was screaming my ass off when that fumble happened. This game was such a swing of emotions. This win was amazing
Don’t care what anyone says, Bengals making the Super Bowl last year was one of the biggest shocks in the last decade.
Don't think anyone would dispute that.
Bro that’s not a hot take at all
Oh, we know
Top 5 worst super bowl participants in history
?????? They didnt have a bad roster. People just slept on em a little
Side effect of this collapse: If CIN would
have won, the Bengals would have gone to New England, while KC would have played Denver in the divisional round. Instead, the Broncos got an injured Steelers team while the Pats got the Chiefs. As a Chiefs fan who watched KC drill Denver in Denver just a month prior, I was furious. To this day, I firmly believe the Broncos owe Burfict a Super Bowl ring.
Keep in mind the steelers almost beat the broncos too even though the steelers entire offense was obliterated. I remember that game was just a hurt Ben tossing it around to a bunch of no-names, the exception being Martavis Bryant.
It was a weird playoffs that year and the Broncos got lucky many times.
The Broncos beat a Patriots team which beat the Chiefs in fairly convincing fashion. You weren't going anywhere.
As a Steelers fan 2015 was a year I’d wanna get back. If we were healthy were in the AFC championship game against NE with a strong chance to make the SB. There’s no way we lose the Carolina with our explosive offense. Would’ve been the 2nd time in Ben’s career that he won a SB without a home playoff game.
@@temo7073 agreed; it's up there with 2011.
@@mr.gentlezombie8709 There’s a difference between playing KC and playing New England
Fitting after the 2022 Bengals vs Steelers Week 1 Game. Expect the unexpected.
This was the biggest playoff implosion I'd ever seen, and I'm a Cleveland Browns fan.
Can't believe y'all really doing this. I'm still going to watch. But dayum!
I paused it before knowing who is narrating. Should be fun.
I’m sure you have tons of ideas in the hopper, but I would love to see a Rewinder video of Bob Burnquist’s 2001 Vert gold medal run.
the fact that this was posted right before the game on Sunday makes laugh
AB was never the same after that hit 💯
I will always love the Bengals - their grit in winning an end of the year game where they were already out of the playoffs helped the Bills to end the awful 17-year playoff drought!
I’ll always appreciate the Bills fans that donated to Andy Dalton’s charity after that game. 😂
My brother and I were watching the game together. When the Burfict got that pick, my brother was about to dip, but he was like, 'It's the Bungles. They'll find a way to miraculously lose this game.' Lo and behold, that Hill fumble happened and we laughed throughout the entire end of the game. Good times, man...
This was the type of game to make a man not know whether to laugh, cry, or punch a hole through the drywall. I didn’t say a word and went straight to bed and tried to forget it ever happened. I avoided the replay of these events for 3 years.
Just wanna give some love to this channel. I have watched these for hours. Great content
As a bengals fan we really don’t have to talk about this
As a bengals fan who grew up loving these marvin lewis and burfict teams, I think the reason that I loved them so much was how much they cared, they may be stupid, but they cared so much. SO often I feel like fans care more than some players, but pacman, burfict, and jeremy hill, cared about winning and their teammates. Glad the bengals have that attitude back, because from 16-19 it was not like that. And, now the players aren't stupid and they still care.
As a Bengals fan you guys really didn't have to do this
Ever Bengals fan I've met has been a homosexual. That's a fact. Is it the same with you?
@@danceyrselfkleen yeah come to the nati and find out lol
@@marcusbrown2640 notice he had nothing for that 😂
Finally! I been asking for this for years! THANK YOU!
It still hurts man…
It’s crazy that this game broke the bengals mental….man them early 2010s bengals teams had some nice squads and the team just imploded on their own
Can’t wait for you guys to do a deep rewind on Epic Games like the 2022 AFC Divisional Round or Rams-Chiefs from 2018
2021 Week 18 especially for how insane and kind of iconic it ended to cap a season full of chaos.
I'm surprised this Rewinder didn't already exist. It's not every day you see a team "implode" in a game they trailed 15-0 entering the fourth quarter.
If my Giants ever lost to the Eagles like this in the playoffs I genuinely don’t think I could ever watch football again
don't worry, it can be much worse (signed, a bills fan)
As a Eagles Fan I Remember Watching This Ending and It Was Crazy Stuff!
Roethlisberger trotting back out onto the field for that game winning drive still gives me goosebumps.
After Bengals fans threw bottles at him as he was being carted off and Burfict throwing a whole party in the endzone, I just knew somehow he'd find a way to win. I just never foresaw it happening the way it did.
Important note: in this season Burfict managed to knock out all 3 "Killer Bs". Bell's knee in that first match-up, Brown was concussed from Burfict's hit and couldn't play in the divisional round, and Ben was forced to play with an obviously limp shoulder in the divisional round.
Their divisional round match-up was against the soon-to-be superbowl champion Broncos. They almost won that game if it weren't for a fumble by the steelers backup RB late in the game.
So while the Steelers won this game, Burfict's hits likely cost the steelers a deeper playoff run.
So true on the B's. All 3 went down, Antonio for good. He was never the same after this game...
@@frankpinmtl yes he was. Same as he always was. With people knew history and stopped trying to rewrite it
Tbf garbage thrown at Roethlisberger should be tradition
@@Giantsfanlewis He’s kind of batshit insane now.
@@SomethingWithZ he was before though. Not much has changed
Your channel always impresses me. Games are never won by one play. 11 vs. 11 happens for a reason. You do a great job explaining this. This game is all about bad decisions.
The day after this was posted, the bengals lost to the steelers in an even more inexplicable way somehow. Not even a super bowl can break the bengals curse of losing to the steelers in impossible ways.
The Bengals and Steelers torturing their fans in these goofy, insane games is one heck of a tradition, that I completely hate as a Bengals fan.
I've been waiting years for this video.
The hit that turned AB into the AB we know today
Porter totally baited Jones into that penalty. Absolutely hilarious.
It’s also wild how this game started ABs total decline. He may have always been like he is today, but I feel like that Burfict hit broke him mentally, or at least broke his ability to control himself.
I have to give a shout out to the sick td catch Martavis Bryant made in this game. The one where he caught it between his legs while rolling over and the ball ended up on his back caught.
Antonio Brown’s been crazy since that hit
This makes me cry as a Bengals fan.
This is one of the top 5 most memorable games I've ever watched. Just a complete meltdown in the truest since of the word. Soooo glad I'm not a Bengals fan. I would still be steaming
Every Bengals fan i know had their heart ripped out and tossed in a blender over this game. I quit watching football for a couple seasons after this game.
@@OrionsVantage LOL I probably would too. My team isn't a stranger to heartbreak but this one is just bizarre. Fan ending apparently 💀
Just knew before this game even kicked off it was going to be crazy and it did not disappoint.
This was the first Football game I ever watch. I won't forget how loudly I screamed when they made that field goal
Great episode, amazing breakdown, least satisfying ending. Love you guys at Secret Base.
As a Steeler, I'll never forget this game. That hit on Brown made me blow my top, and beating the Bengals as a result of it kept me laughing for days.
I love Football sooooooooo much. As a Steelers fan I still can't believe we won this game. We should've beat Denver a week later but we had no Bell or Brown. But still had a chance to win that game in the end but the rookie RB fumbled. He played a heck of a game too up until that fumble. I still feel bad for that kid.
Man I love AFC North matchups lol.
Moving all the yards per play together to show the penalties as the longest plays of the drive was genius editing. It really drove the point home... Nice job.
The single most painful moment of my sports watching life.
Bro we just went to the damn super bowl and this game still lives rent free in my head. Like the 05 playoff game hurt. Probably worse for me than most Bengals fans because I was 13 at the time lol. But at least that loss wasn't embarrassing. Can't do much about your superstar QB going out early. This 15 game was just... man to this day Jeremy Hill is a pariah in Cincinnati. We could embarrass the Steelers in the AFC Championship in similar fashion and I don't think I'll get over this game.
So as a wrestling fan I feel like I need to elaborate for any of y’all non wrestling fans about Pacman Jones’ TNA wrestling career. So basically he signs with TNA, which at the time was the 2nd biggest wrestling promotion in the US. The Titans were not a fan of that so they protested and said that if Jones did anything physical they would sue TNA and void Jones’ contract. At the 2007 No Surrender ppv Team Pacman won the tag team championship. During the match Jones spent the entire match on the ring apron and never tagged in while his partner, Ron Killings wrestled a 2v1 handicap match and won the titles. They would hold the titles for 35 days and would lose them at the 2007 Bound for Glory ppv where Consequences Creed would be a substitute to Pacman Jones so it would not be another handicap match. Pacman Jones left TNA soon there after, Ron Killings would become R-Truth in WWE, Consequences Creed would become Xavier Woods in WWE, and wrestling journalists acted like upset children because Pacman Jones was making it rain on tv and that was an abomination to the already ridiculously stupid sport of Pro Wrestling.
my TNA timeline is a bit iffy, was this pre, during or post vince russo?
I don't think the wrestling journos were upset at Pacman for making it rain. I think they were upset that they were using something that Pacman did in real life that led to somebody getting shot and paralyzed as part of an angle. Hell, Mike Tenay yelled "he's picking up the bucks like a dancer at the club" when Earl Hebner scrambled to pick up Pacman's money.
@@JJ-fg2wd Meltzer gave the signing of Pacman Jones and said making it rain on tv the most disgusting promotional tactic because it led to the paralysis of a wrestler in a strip club.
@@kstxevolution9642 it was during Russo’s second run in TNA where he was on the creative team.
I remember exactly where I was watching. Broke my heart. I love the Bengals deeply but this was truly a bleak moment for the city. Awful in so many ways and we deserved it
I remember saying to myself after that embarrassing display by the Bengals, Marvin Lewis should’ve been given the Pink Slip (fired) the next day, because, he had lost control of the team when the opportunity to finally win a playoff game was there, and it all fell apart.
That’s fair
This was the hit that changed AB.. he has not been the same since. I really don't think people think about that when AB does crazy things
Within the year after losing the superbowl, you guys rewind their worse lose ever.
Nice
It's like pouring salt on a healed wound. It doesn't hurt as bad now that they've won a playoff game.
They do a lot of reminders
I watched that game live. Looking back I really feel like those final few seconds changed the NFL
Note: Joey Porter should have been flagged for being on the field in the first place. A linebacker coach had no right to be on the field during an injury timeout with their offense on the field. Now because of him, only head coaches are now allowed on the field during injury timeouts.
Actually, all coaches were allowed to be on the field during injuries then. That rule was implemented after that game. The only reason a flag would be thrown would be if he was taunting or something, but even Burfict said that Porter really wasn't doing anything.
Steelers fan who saw this go down in real time. This was just wild to see
As a Cincinnati fan this loss was utterly devastating. Time heals all wounds and now I can say that I'm glad they lost this because Burrow breaking the curse these past playoffs was so much sweeter
good call on the pro wrestling analogy. never has a football game felt more like a WWE match. this game was unreal
Seeing “WWE” and “Bengals” in the same comment makes me feel obligated to mention Brian Pillman.
Woah woah woah. 2:32. "Palmer blew his knee out"
YOU MEAN THE DIRTY PLAY FROM THE STEELERS KEEMO THAT INTENTIONALLY INJURED HIM?
I like how you aren’t questioning at all why Porter was on the field instigating things even further
The entire video paints the bengals as this dirty team with zero mention of multiple rule changes due to steelers dirty tactics