With the 2025 season on the horizon, Steelers.com is bringing you Looking Back, where a game against each of our opponents is highlighted. In this edition, it’s the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n
Steelers 23, Cincinnati Bengals 7
December 12, 2010
Heinz Field (Now Acrisure Stadium)<\/p>\n
It’s not bad, nor common, when you can reel off a win against a division rival and the offense doesn’t score a touchdown.<\/p>\n
That was the case against the Cincinnati Bengals back in 2010.<\/p>\n
Kicker Shaun Suisham got the Steelers on the board with three field goals, but it would be the defense that would get the team in the end zone.<\/p>\n
The Bengals got off to an early 7-0 lead when penalties gave them second life, but it would quickly evaporate.<\/p>\n
Safety Troy Polamalu intercepted his former college roommate, Carson Palmer, and returned the ball 45 yards for a touchdown to tie the game at 7-7.<\/p>\n
“It definitely got me going,” said linebacker LaMarr Woodley. “I was feeling a little down after allowing them to score a touchdown on that third down situation that I jumped offside. I was down, but when Troy got in, I got excited.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2025 season on the horizon, Steelers.com is bringing you Looking Back, where a game against each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,198,7,4463,6,914,915],"class_list":{"0":"post-134406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-history","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-non-sponsored","17":"tag-sights-and-sounds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114693235277499584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}