Why not? There has been a rebirth of the NFL experience in Cincinnati, where remarkable Marvin Lewis has the Bengals looking cautiously toward the playoffs and asking.(NFL)

If you need conclusive evidence that the world of pro football as we knew it is desperately out of whack, consider this: It's November, and the Bucs are stumbling and the Raiders are tumbling, and we are writing a story about football in Cincinnati that won't feature one joke about the foolishness of Bungles past.

Instead of giving us laughs, the Bengals are giving us wins, and that's not the only shock. Remember Jon Kitna, yesterday's poster boy for gutsy yet bumbling quarterbacking? My goodness, he's playing so well that just the other day Chargers coach Marty Schottenheimer was falling over himself trying to find the right words to describe the depth of his ...