Bengals Win Playoff Game for First Time Since 1990
 

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The last time that the Cincinnati Bengals won a playoff game, Boomer Esiason was their starting quarterback, and they were just 2 years removed from a Super Bowl appearance against Joe Montana's San Francisco 49ers.

In those 1990 playoffs, the Bengals beat the Houston Oilers in the Wildcard playoff game. The team that knocked them out the following week was ...... the Oakland Raiders, the same franchise in which they ended their playoff victory drought against on Saturday. That game against the Raiders 31 years ago wound up being Bo Jackson's last in his career, as he sustained a denigrative hip injury after a 34-yard gain.


Bengals Defeat Raiders for First Playoff Win in Decades

(By Taylor Weiter)

https://www.wcpo.com/sports/football...win-in-decades

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I forget, was Collinsworthless on that team?

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No ...... Collinsworth played on both of the Bengals' Super Bowl teams in 1981 and 1988, but not on the 1990 team that lost in the divisional playoffs.

He was a rookie in 1981 when they lost to the 49ers in Super Bowl XVI, and his final season as a player was in 1988 when they lost to the 49ers in Super Bowl XXIII.

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With the Bengals's win over the Raiders, the Detroit Lions now on the NFL's longest playoff-win drought.



The Detroit Lions have Longest Playoff Drought after Bengals Top Raiders

(By Dave Birkett)

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/n...ht/6545421001/

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From Eric Woodyard, ESPN Reporter



1991 LIONS STARTING OFFENSE


QB llll) Erik Kramer

RB llllll Barry Sanders

WR lllll Mike Farr

WR lllll Willie Green

WR lllll Herman Moore

WR lll) Aubrey Matthews

LT lllll) Lomas Brown

LG llllll Eric Andolsek

CT llllll Kevin Glover

RG llll, Ken Dallafior

RT lllll, Scott Conover


1991 LIONS STARTING OFFENSE


LB llll) Marc Spindler

LB llllll Lawrence Pete

DE llll) Dan Owens

LB llllll George Jamison

LB llllll Chris Spielman

LB llllll Victor Jones

LB llllll Tracy Hayworth

CB llll, Ray Crockett

CB llll, Mel Jenkins

SS llll, William White

FS llllll Bennie Blades

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