I had a conversation today, where the other party disagreed with me about the following text which I saw in Madden 09:
“The Bengals have played the Steelers more than any other team in the NFL”.
My assertion was that the statement was ambiguous and did not make sense as you could not figure out which team played the other team the most in their own history.
My interpretation of the statement was:
- The Bengals could have played the Steelers more than any other team in Bengals history
- The Steelers could have played the Bengals more than any other team in Steelers history
Also Wikipedia appeared to have the correct statement: “the Bengals have met the Steelers more than anyone else in their own history”, which was not ambiguous to me.
Please comment on this as they are having a hard time believing my argument, and if I am wrong I would love to know.

