The 76 Bengals were fortunate they missed 67 Baltimore at the start of the tournament but they didn't avoid them for long. This tourney is coming down to the wire and the loser of this one goes home. There's a simple story line in this one. The Bengals were able to run the football(44-206) while the Colts could not (16-65). That meant over 38 minutesof possession time. It also meant Cincy could sit back on the pass. That meant a sub-par game for Unitas: 13-26 for 139 includuing four big picks. The last one came in the 4th quarter with 
Cincy leading 14-7. It was returned to the Baltimore 9 and Anderson (11-22-120) found Curtis onthe first play from scrimmage for a huge 21-7 lead. That's how it ended. My hats off to Stu for staying remarkably calm in a game where very little went his way. He had two big intentional grounding calls go against him, 4 picks, a blocked FG at the end of the half when he was leading 7-6, a missed FG from 22 yards in the 3rd quarter, 3 fumbles by Cincy but 2 were recovered by Cncy, and well, little in the way of good dice rolls. I was fortunate to advance in this one.
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