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Dec. 24, 1994: Doug Pelfrey — at the gun — it’s gooood! And the Bengals win, 33-30
CHRISTMAS EVE 1994;
WERE YOU THERE? OR
DID YOU LEAVE EARLY?
===LUDWIG AT LARGE alert: This comes straight off the Cincinnati Bengals weekly news release written by public relations director Jack Brennan. His weekly notes package is entertaining as well as informative.===
Though it’s not officially in a record book, the last Eagles visit to Cincinnati produced a performance which is not recorded as replicated in any NFL game before or since.
On Dec. 24, 1994 at Riverfront Stadium, the Bengals turned a loss into a win with the least time to spare ever. They scored twice in the final three seconds to go from 30-27 losers to 33-30 winners.
Cincinnati tied the score at 30 with :03 remaining, on a 22-yard Doug Pelfrey field goal. The Eagles then muffed a Bengals squib kickoff, and DB Adrian Hardy recovered for the Bengals at the Eagles 37. The clocked stopped at :01.
As time ran out, Pelfrey then kicked a career-long 54-yard FG to win the game. It’s tied for second-longest in Bengals history.
Elias Sports Bureau reports it can verify only one other game with two scores by a team in the last :03. And in that case, the first of the two scores essentially decided the game.
On Nov. 15, 1998, Tennessee went up 17-14 on Pittsburgh with a field goal at :03. Then Tennessee padded its margin with a TD as Pittsburgh botched the ensuing kickoff return.
LONG TIME NO SEE
The Eagles have not played in Cincinnati since 1994, when the Bengals won 33-30 in a Christmas Eve game at Riverfront Stadium.
It’s the longest current absence by any team from the Queen City, if you include preseason visits.
The only two NFL teams with a longer absence than the Eagles in regular season or postseason are Washington (not since 1991) and Detroit (not since 1992). But Washington played at Cincinnati in the preseason as recently as 2006, and Detroit visited in the preseason three times, including this year.
The Eagles have not played any game in Cincinnati since the December ’94 contest.
LAST PBS VISITORS
If preseason is included, the Eagles are the last of the Bengals’ 31 NFL foes to play a game in Paul Brown Stadium.
The Eagles will be the 29th team to play at PBS in the regular season or postseason. Two Cincinnati foes — Washington and Detroit — have yet to play at PBS for keeps, but both those clubs have made preseason visits.
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