CLEVELAND - The day begins with Bengals head coach Sam Wyche wandering into the Dawg Pound during pregame and kibitzing with the Browns faithful. But if the defending AFC champion Bengals, mired at 6-6, are to repeat, they must break The Pound and win today. Linebacker Reggie Williams drives the point home when he arrives wearing a tuxedo. “If we had lost this game,” says Williams, the 14-year vet retiring at the end of the season, “that one last remaining dream to somehow get to the end of a Super Bowl victorious would have been totally lost.” The day ends in a minus-15 wind chill driven by the Lake’s 30 mile-per-hour wind with Williams screaming in the huddle to finish off their first shutout in nine years and 148 games.
TDBH: Bengals chill Browns, 21-0, to stay in it
