The Los Angeles Chargers and Cincinnati Bengals will play on Sunday Night Football in primetime. It will be Jim Harbaugh’s crew’s first nationally televised game of the season. The Bengals are a team that the Chargers have fared well against historically.
This will be the first meeting between these teams since December 2021, a 41-22 Chargers victory. The Chargers have won the last three meetings and the Bengals have not beaten them since they were the San Diego Chargers in September 2015.
The Chargers currently hold a 23-15 all-time record in the series.
It has been even longer since the Bengals were able to pick up a road win against the Chargers. You would have to go back to December 2013 for that one, also in San Diego. This will be just the second time the teams have played in Los Angeles since the Chargers moved there.
However, the Bengals were able to win the most important game ever played between these two teams.
Bengals beat Chargers in the “Freezer Bowl”
It was the AFC Championship Game in the 1981 season and the high-powered Chargers offense, used to the friendly confines of sunny San Diego, had to go to the brutally cold Riverfront Stadium for a game that had a temperature of -9 degrees. To this day, it is the second-coldest game played in NFL history. Only the “Ice Bowl” between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys on New Year’s Eve in 1967 was colder.
1981Bengals 27, Chargers 7
“Freezer Bowl”Temp: -9Wind Chill: -59 pic.twitter.com/ZsaaRfpX4Z
— Kurtis Seaboldt ? (@KSeaboldt) January 22, 2021
The Bengals used the frigid cold to cool down the “Air Coryell” attack of the Chargers en route to a 27-7 victory and a trip to Super Bowl XVI.
When the teams met the following December, the Chargers put up a 50-burger on the Bengals.
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