49ers beat Green Bay Packers 13-10.

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They always screw up in the playoffs.

[PittBlue]

1. Bye bye...Aaron Rodgers

KARMA!

[oasis]

5. Rodgers doesn't have to ponder whether or not to visit the "fake White House"

should the Packers win the Super Bowl.

[PittBlue]

7. He looked so angry leaving the field....made my day!

[ornotna]

2. Down to the wire

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. Bengals vs. 49ers... AGAIN?

Doubtful, but there's still a chance.

[exboyfil]

4. Revenge game

It was like the 1990 Reds. They could not get over the hump with the A's in the early 70s, but finally swept them

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. Hard for me to believe there's more time between...

... the last Super Bowl for the Bengals in '89 (against the 49ers for a 2nd time) and now, compared to the Reds from the early-70's and 1990!

I'm not too confident that the Bengals can keep surviving their poor OL this season, but at least they'd have their own version of Montana/Rice -- with Burrow and Chase -- in a Super Bowl rematch with the 49ers this time around.

Edit: As usual, the Bengals have a LOT of salary cap space. So I'd think they could attract some competent OL free agents who'd like to play for a potential Super Bowl ring in the offseason. And playing with a QB and others with a positive attitude.

[exboyfil]

10. You would think they could model the KC approach

In one year KC entirely rebuilt their offensive line to the point that they traded away a decent guard.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. I definitely think they could, assuming...

... that the Brown family seizes any opportunities.

Mike Brown's daughter and husband have pretty much taken over the Bengals operation, supposedly, so I hope that Mike mostly stays out of it. Let him keep enjoying his twilight years dumpster-diving and looking for loose change around parking meters and vending machines, or whatever he's been doing lately.

[RockRaven]

6. Not *always*.... They beat the 49ers in the playoffs a bunch in the 90s...

Back when that dick-pic sending idiot was their QB...

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9. I was a Bears fan back then.