If anyone knows about Bengals-Steelers lore, it is Thursday night's Ruler of the Jungle.
As he celebrated after midnight with Joe Flacco, the newest addition to the orange-and-black-history books, Andrew Whitworth could put it in perspective.
After all, he had lived the 2009 bloodbath known as the War of 18-12. The 2012 Geno-Atkins-Is-A-Man Game. The 2015 Brawl in The Paul.
And now he had just witnessed Ja'Marr Chase's Sweet 16 catches that broke his own Bengals record and Flacco's first game-winning drive against the Steelers in ten years before he was serenaded with postgame chants of "Thank You, Cleveland."
"That's up there for me," Whitworth texted. "Resilience, grit."
There it is. Bengals 33, Steelers 31 is now forever known as the Thank You Cleveland Game. Some guys, like Chase on Thursday, write history. Some guys, like Flacco on Thursday, write revisionist history.
Like all of the most memorable Bengals-Steelers games, the offensive line always seems to take a bow against one of the league's brass-knuckled legacies.
Not only did they rip off 6.2 yards per rush for their most in a win in 16 years against the sacred remnants of the Steel Curtain, but they held a team that had rampaged to 17 sacks in the last three to just two in this one.
"It's a credit to the plan," said left tackle Orlando Brown Jr., a child of the AFC North whose father played for the Browns and Ravens, just like Joe Flacco.
"Giving us the opportunity to set our pads at the line of scrimmage, be physical on a short week against a really good defensive front. We've got one of the biggest offensive lines in the league, and you give us the opportunity to go body to body on some of these defenses, you see what we can do."
What they did was stop the 4-1 Steelers steamroller in its tracks and keep the AFC North a race.
"Give a lot of credit to our tackles," said center Ted Karras.