The script is Hollywood but the ending is in Baltimore if it is Marvin Lewis’ last game as head coach of the Bengals on Sunday (4:25 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Channel 12) when they try to knock the Ravens out of the playoffs.
After all, it is in Baltimore where Lewis burst on the scene at the turn of the century as one of the NFL’s bright young defensive minds and when he led the Ravens to the NNFL’s greatest season of defense in 2000 he became one of the league’s hottest head coaching candidates.
John Wooten, Lewis’ old confidant in those days in Baltimore, called the Ravens the other day to check in for the holidays and that’s the vibe he got.