51-48???

[BlueNGold24]

anyone else see the score of the Cleveland - Cinci game?? wtf, this has got to be some kind of record for combined points

[Max997]

2 awful defenses

[BlueNGold24]

make that 58-48..damn

[Victor7]

They must be playing freaking basket ball man !!!! They said it was the most points since the merger

[Buddy]

That's pretty amazing how many points they put up.

[jimmifli]

Was there a punt?

[Mehser]

Was there a punt?
Six of them.

http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/live/NFL_20041128_CLE@CIN.shtml

[jimmifli]

Six of them.

http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/live/NFL_20041128_CLE@CIN.shtml
phew....

Cool.

[mjjk73]

they said it was the most point since 1966 i think the said skins giants game back then

[CincyBills]

I watched it. And had several friends who were going to it. I'll be interested to get their take on it, but that was a freaking ridiculous game. No defense whatsoever. McGahee should have 300 yards rushing against Cleveland.

[gr8slayer]

I watched most of the game. Flat out ugly.

[rob on the job]

McGahee should have 300 yards rushing against Cleveland.

I hope you are right, Cincy.

[evilfinkiller]

its hard to believe that 2 D's could give up so many points. Oh well i guess that means they are going to be in trouble when Buffalo comes to town with our D and our O whoopping that ass!!!

[shiva2999]

I've always been a huge Kelly Holcomb fan.

[EricStratton]

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He had a terrific game until the final pick.

He made a terrible read and an awful throw and lost any chance for his team to win when he did.

That was the one game I kept going back to on the dish. The SD/KC game was a good one to watch as well but this game was a riot.

[MR. GIBBERISH]

That score was the second highest total in NFL history. The all time maximum points is
the 1966 classic
Washington 71
Giants 44.

[shiva2999]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/reuben_frank/12/01/frank.numbers/index.html

Kelly guns into record book
Browns' Holcomb makes Herculean effort in shootout loss
Posted: Wednesday December 1, 2004 2:48PM

Browns QB Kelly Holcomb produced what may have been the greatest passing performance in NFL history Sunday, and his coach was so impressed he quit.

Holcomb on Sunday became the first quarterback in NFL or AFL history to complete at least 77 percent of his pass attempts, pass for 413 or more yards and throw at least five touchdowns in a game. Two days after Holcomb made history, Browns coach Butch Davis resigned.

According to a search of 31 NFL media guides -- and a trip to the microfilm room at the Bucks County (Pa.) College library, since the Raiders media guide is so bad -- no other quarterback has ever done what Holcomb did in a 58-48 loss to the Bengals.

Holcomb, who completed 30 of 39 passes, is 2-10 in his last 12 NFL starts but has thrown for 400 yards twice during that stretch. He has as many career 300-yard games (four) as career victories.

Until Sunday, the last NFL quarterback to pass for 400 yards in a game and complete at least 77 percent of his passes was Jeff Garcia, who did it with the 49ers against the Bears on Dec. 17, 2000. And it was Garcia's injury that opened the way for Holcomb to play against the Bengals on Sunday.

Holcomb's 413 passing yards were the most by a quarterback against a team from the same state since Jeff Hostetler of the Raiders had 424 yards against the Chargers on Oct. 31, 1993.

Holcomb has only started 13 NFL games, but he has as many career games with 400 yards and five touchdowns as slightly more famous former teammate Peyton Manning.

Carson Palmer completed 76 percent of his passes, best by a Bengals quarterback since Jon Kitna completed 81 percent of his passes at Houston in 2002, but he wasn't even the most accurate quarterback in the game.

The Bengals and Browns combined for 106 points, making that the highest-scoring game played in the Buckeye State since Ohio State and Oberlin combined for 128 points on Oct. 14, 1916, when Ohio State beat the Yeomen, 128-0.

The two teams scored on average once every 3 minutes, 20 seconds, at one point combining to score on eight consecutive drives and at another generating 58 points in 21 minutes, 55 seconds.

Two quarters of the game had the same score as other NFL games -- the Bengals outscored the Browns 13-3 in the second quarter, the same score as the Jets-Cards game, and the Browns outscored the Bengals, 21-14, in the third quarter, the same score as the Panthers-Bucs game (that's courtesy of the Boston bureau of the RoobWorld Sports Bureau, also known as the AlWorld Sports Bureau).

The Browns scored more points in the second half of a loss (35) than in any win this year. Only once previously has a team scored more points and lost. That was 42 years ago, when the old AFL Raiders beat the Oilers, 52-49, in overtime.