Sep 28th 2008 2:30PM by Adam Gretz (author feed)
Filed under: Bengals, Browns, AFC North
If you’re currently watching this monstrosity that is Bengals-Browns game, I feel your pain. This is, quite simply, one of the worst football games I have ever watched. And it’s not as if there is some sort of crazy variable playing havoc on the conditions (rain, wind, snow). It’s just two awful, awful football teams toiling along at a field goal pace in the first half.

Ryan Fitzpatrick, starting in place of Carson Palmer, is 5-for-11 passing with two interceptions, while his biggest plays have come on a pair of rushes. Meanwhile, Derek Anderson is playing so poorly that Rich Gannon just described a 6-yard swing pass to a running back as a “a very positive play for Derek Anderson.”

And now, as I’m writing this, the two teams just took part in a Chinese Fire drill of madness. Fitzpatrick threw his second interception of the game, this time to Browns cornerback Eric Wright. As Wright was running it back, a Bengals player knocked the ball out of Wright’s hands into the waiting arms of Chad Ocho Cinco for a Bengals first down.

It’s 6-3 Bengals at the half, and I’m still trying to figure out how these teams managed to combine for nine points.