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Halloween came eight days early to the house on 1 Paul Brown Stadium. It was like filling your bag early and often with enough Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Snickers to satisfy you until the Bengals trick or treat in Cleveland.
You got your blowout victory, Bengals fans.
“Needed a win like that,” a friend texted, “instead of the new ‘Cardiac Kids.’ ”
Routs can get a bad reputation. A good one can be soothing, reassuring, uplifting. Some of you appreciated it, judging from our weekly day-after-game Twitter session, when I asked how blowing out the Falcons on Sunday affected you.