5. Browns 51, Bengals 45, Sept. 16, 2007 at Cleveland
Cleveland’s Derek Anderson completed 20 of 33 passes for 328 yards and five touchdowns and Cincinnati’s Carson Palmer was 33 of 50 for 401 yards and six touchdowns in the eighth-highest scoring game in NFL history.
The Browns offense totaled 554 yards and Cincinnati’s 531.
Three of Anderson’s scoring passes were in the second quarter — 17 and 9 yards to Joe Jurevicius and 25 yards to Kellen Winslow — as the Browns took a 27-21 halftime lead.
Cleveland ended the third quarter ahead 41-31 after Anderson connected with Braylon Edwards for a 34-yard touchdown toss and Jamal Lewis ran 66 yards to score. A fourth-quarter Anderson-to-Edwards touchdown pass of 37 yards gave the Browns a 48-38 edge.
Lewis totaled 216 yards on 27 carries. Edwards caught eight passes for 146 yards and Winslow six for 100. The Bengals’ Chad Johnson had 209 yards on 11 receptions with two touchdowns.
Phil Dawson kicked three Cleveland field goals.
Both teams were 1-1 after the game. The Browns would go 10-6, missing the playoffs by losing tiebreakers to the Pittsburgh Steelers for the AFC North championship and to the Tennessee Titans for a wild card. Cleveland’s costliest loss was to the Bengals, 19-14 in Cincinnati, in the next to last game. The Bengals finished 7-9.
The Browns and Bengals also combined for the second-most points (106) scored in an NFL game, when the Bengals defeated the Browns, 58-48, on Nov. 28, 2004 in Cincinnati. Cleveland’s Kelly Holcomb completed 30 of 39 passes for 413 yards and five touchdowns — three to Steve Heiden and two to Antonio Bryant. The NFL record for most points in a game for two teams is 113, achieved in the Washington Redskins’ 72-41 win over the New York Giants on Nov. 27, 1966 in Washington.
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