On Oct. 10, 1983, the Steelers' Keith Gary flung Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson to the turf in a Steelers victory on "Monday Night Football."
Two days later, Bengals owner Paul Brown sounded off.
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"We were fortunate it was on national TV," Brown said Tuesday,” Brown told reporters. “Maybe now it won’t be repeated.”
Well ... something similar happened to Anderson almost a decade earlier. On Nov. 10, 1974, Pittsburgh safety Glen Edwards clotheslined the Cincinnati quarterback, then defended the hit later that week.
“I don’t think I owe anybody an apology,” Edwards was quoted as saying.