January 9th, 2010. The Bengals loose in the Wild Card game to the Jets.

October 6th, 2010. Roy Halladay throws a no-hitter in Game 1 of the NLDS against the Reds. The Reds would eventually get swept by the Phillies in three games ending their breakout 2010 season.

January 7th, 2012. The strong rookie seasons of Andy Dalton and A.J. Green led the Bengals to a Wild Card birth in 2011. In the playoff game, Dalton threw 3 interceptions and the Bengals lost to the Texans in the Wild Card game.

October 9th-11th, 2012. The Reds blow a 2-0 game lead in the NLDS verses the Giants. That year the Reds won the first two games of the series in San Francisco. They came home needing only one win in their three home games. The Reds lost the next three games and ended their season. Mat Latos was the loosing pitcher in the final game of the series.

January 5th, 2013. The Bengals loose in the Wild Card game to the Texans, making it back-to-back years of loosing in the first round of the playoffs.

October 1st, 2013. Despite being the third best team in the NL Central in 2013, the Reds finished second in the Wild Card race and their season came down to one game. The Reds would go on to loose in the Wild Card game to the Pirates ending their season without advancing in the playoffs for the third time in four years.

January 5th, 2014. The Bengals loose in the first round of the playoffs for the third straight year.

January 4th, 2015. The Bengals loose in the first round of the playoffs for the fourth straight year.

January 9th, 2016. The Bengals melt down at home verses the Steelers. Trailing 15-0 entering the fourth quarter, the Bengals came back in the fourth quarter. A touchdown run by Jeremy Hill, a field goal by Mike Nugent, and a touchdown catch by A.J. Green put the Bengals up 16-15 with 1:50 left in the game. Vontaze Burfict intercepted backup quarterback Landry Jones with 1:43 left to play. With a lead and the ball, all the Bengals had to do was run the clock out. But a Jeremy Hill fumble gave the Steelers hope. With 22 seconds left in the game, Vontaze Burfict committed an unnecessary roughness penalty on Antonio Brown putting the Steelers in striking distance. On the next play, Adam Jones committed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that set up a Chris Boswell field goal to win the game. This was the Bengals fifth straight loss in the first round of the playoffs.

March 18th, 2018. The Bearcats blow a twenty-two point lead with ten minutes remaining in the game and loose by two. The Bearcats lead by twelve at halftime and had as much as a twenty two point lead, and watched it dwindle away in the final seconds to Nevada. Thought by many to be Mick Cronin's best Bearcat's team, Cincinnati failed to reach the sweet sixteen despite being ranked as a two seed in the tournament.