I though you might find this amusing.
you may know I was at the Bengals game last night. It was an exciting game to say the least. The Bengals offence was horrible and it was the defense that won the game with the game winning touchdown off an interception (if you have to call it that) of the blocked pass that was a gift to the Bengals.
Anyway, for those of you that watched the game on 12 or ESPN, you might remember that Baltimore had 7 or 8 tries at the potentially tying touchdown (with a regular extra point conversion) from inside the 5 yard line with only a minute to go at the end of the game.
I don't know what possesed me but I recorded the last three real-time minutes of the game (About 50 game seconds) on my cheap-ass phone's audio recorder.
LISTEN HERE
What you hear in the recording is as follows: at first is the crowd cheering the defense on to hold for the 7th or 8th time in a row; then a hush as the ball is thrown to the end zone; followed by a minute long cheer that never ends! It rises up again as the replay is shown on the big screens. There is a "Who Dey" cheer that erupts from the other side of the stadium and spreads quickly to fill the stadium. The crowd hushes a little as the Bengals snap the ball for the meaningless second-to-last play of the game. Carson Palmer takes the snap and takes a knee. The crowd hushes a little as the teams stand around killing the game clock. Then you hear one final smaller cheer as Carson takes the last snap of the game and takes a knee. After that the crowd begins to chant "defense" to acknowledge that it was the defense that won the game.
Keep in mind this was a low quality recording from inside my pocket! The sound in person was deafening! To me it was just below the threshold of pain! It's as loud as that stadium has been since the KC game a few years back that is considered to be the turning-point of the loser-Bengals to the competitive-Bengals.
I've attached an link to the WAV file of the 3 minute recording along with a picture I took with the phone cam (broken lens and all) in the 3rd quarter (Yes all the plays at the end of the game happened on "my" end of the field.)
See ya
Tony
...Man enough to admit I was wrong; at least about McNair. Wow...not one of his best games. On the same token, I'll take credit for predicting D* was going out outshine O*
