Games with significant implications for the NFL postseason don't typically match one team that just barely beat the Browns against another that just barely beat the Chiefs, but precisely such a chilled buffet is to be served up this afternoon at Heinz Field.

The Cincinnati Bengals needed another high altitude bolt of brilliance from rookie A.J. Green -- a 51-yard strike to the Cleveland 2 -- just to stage a game-winning field goal adjacent to Lake Erie last week, and the Steelers needed four hot 'n' tasty late night turnovers from fellow Pennsylvanian Tyler Palko to avoid a serious slip in Kansas City.

But if the playoffs started today (hey, how was your Christmas?), these Steelers and these Bengals would be your AFC wild cards, a condition that would seem about as likely to hold as these December temperatures in the mid-50s.


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