It’s fitting that Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis celebrated his 57th birthday Wednesday preparing for the Ravens in Sunday’s game (1 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Channel 12) in Baltimore.
“They’re still my second favorite team,” said Lewis at his pre-practice news conference.
And why not? Lewis coached the greatest season of NFL defense when the 2000 Ravens won the Super Bowl with him as their defensive coordinator, a job he held for six seasons.
But it was on his 43rd birthday, his last with the Ravens in 2001, when the Bengals dealt the defending Super Bowl champions a 21-10 upset at Paul Brown Stadium.