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The Cincinnati Bengals are a Cincinnati-based professional American football team. The Bengals are a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division of the National Football League (NFL). Paul Brown Stadium, close to downtown Cincinnati, is the club’s home stadium. The Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers are Cincinnati’s major divisional rivals.
Former Cleveland Browns head coach Paul Brown created the Bengals in 1966. As a member of the American Football League (AFL), and they began playing in the 1968 season. From the team’s founding through 1975, Brown served as its head coach. Brown expresses interest in starting another NFL club in Ohio after being out as the Browns’ head coach by Art Modell (who had bought a controlling stake in the organization in 1961). He scouted at both Cincinnati and Columbus.
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When a contract was reached between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball’s Cincinnati Reds (who were looking for a successor for the outdated Crosley Field) to build a multipurpose stadium that could hold both baseball and football games, he chooses the former. Brown opted to join the AFL as its tenth and last club due to the imminent merger of the AFL and the NFL, which was set to take full effect in the 1970 season. Following the merger, the Bengals, like the other former AFL clubs, were given to the AFC.
Cincinnati was also chosen because, like their Reds neighbors, they could draw from a number of large neighboring cities (Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky; Columbus, Dayton, and Springfield, Ohio) all of which are less than 110 miles (180 km) from downtown Cincinnati, as well as Indianapolis until the Baltimore Colts moved there prior to the 1984 NFL season. The Bengals won the AFC title in 1981 and 1988, while the San Francisco 49ers won Super Bowls XVI and XXIII. Following Paul Brown’s death in 1991, his son, Mike Brown, gained ownership of the team.
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Brown bought the Bengals franchise from the estate of co-founder Austin Knowlton in 2011, and he currently owns most of the franchise. The 1990s and 2000s were a time of immense adversity. The club spent 14 years without having a winning record or qualifying for the NFL playoffs after the 1990 season. Many of the Bengals’ top draft selections did not turn out, and many of their head coaches were fired. Mike Brown, the team’s de facto managing director, was named amongst the worst team owners in pro sports in the United States.
The team’s fortunes rose in the mid-2000s, and they became more frequent postseason candidates. But they have struggled beyond the regular season, and they have not made the playoffs since 1990, the longest active drought in the NFL.
The Cincinnati Bengals have a long and illustrious history
The American Football League awarded a franchise to an ownership group led by Paul Brown in 1967. “To provide it a link with historic professional football in Cincinnati,” Brown said, he called the team the Bengals. From 1937 through 1942, another Cincinnati Bengals club existed in the city and competed in three different American Football Leagues.
A rare white Bengal tiger lived at the city’s world-famous zoo. Brown, on the other hand, picked the identical shade of orange worn by his old team, either as a dig at Art Modell or as a nod to his own start as a head coach with the Massillon Tigers. As a supplementary color, he added black. Brown went for a basic logo that consisted of the word “BENGALS” in black letters.
A rare white Bengal tiger lived at the city’s world-famous zoo. Brown, on the other hand, picked the identical shade of orange worn by his old team, either as a dig at Art Modell or as a nod to his own start as a head coach with the Massillon Tigers. As a supplementary color, he added black. Brown went for a basic logo that consisted of the word “BENGALS” in black letters.
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The American Football League and its older and more established competitor, the National Football League, decided to combine in 1966. The AFL was given permission to add one more franchise as part of the merger agreement. One of the reasons the NFL consented to this was that they desired the merging league to have an equal number of teams, thus a team had to be added to bring the total number of teams in the merger league to twenty-six.
The NFL was material for that team to be in the American Football League because it implies that the current nine AFL clubs would have to provide athletes in the ensuing expansion draft, and the NFL owners greatly prefer the resulting dilution of talent to take place in what they had often considered being a lower league. The assurance of a future position in the NFL for the AFL meant the league could pay a high expansion fee of $10 million–400 times the $25,000 the league’s founding eight investors paid when it was formed in 1960.
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The Bengals’ 2018 season started out brightly for Lewis. They started the season with a 4–1 record, with victories over the Colts, Ravens, Falcons, and Dolphins. Bengals, on the other hand, had a lot of setbacks following their strong start. Andy Dalton injured his thumb in the Bengals’ first match against the Browns and was substituted by Jeff Driskel for the rest of the season after defensive coordinator Teryl Austin was fired mid-season due to defensive issues, AJ Green was injured and expressly out for the last four games, and Teryl Austin was shot mid-season due to defensive woes. The Bengals finished last in the AFC North with a 6-10 record.
Lewis and the Bengals amicably crossed paths on December 31, 2018, with one year remaining on his contract, after three consecutive losing seasons under his leadership. The 2019 season began off rather well, with Zac Taylor taking over as head coach, with a 21–20 loss to Seattle at CenturyLink Field, but what started out promising ended in catastrophe. The Bengals subsequently went on to lose ten more games, finishing the season with an 0-11 record.
They won their first game of the month against the Jets 22–6 in Cincinnati to start December. They finally fell to the Patriots and then to the Dolphins in overtime, losing 38–35 after Dalton led the team back from a 23-point fourth-quarter deficit. The Bengals have finally clinched the #1 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft after their loss to the Dolphins. They’d win their final game against the underperforming Cleveland Browns to finish 2-14, tying the team’s lowest record in franchise history with the 2002 season.
Uniforms and logos
The Bengals’ jerseys were patterned after the Cleveland Browns when the franchise first debuted in 1968. When Paul Brown was dismissed by Art Modell, he still owned the Cleveland equipment. So he packed it all up and moved it to his new club in Cincinnati.
Brown, orange, and white were the Cleveland Browns’ team colors, and their helmets were full orange with a white dorsal stripe above the crest.
The Bengals’ team colors were orange, black, and white, with the main differences being the name “Bengals” in black block letters (with a white accent) on each side of the helmet and no stripe on the helmet. The Cincinnati Bengals were the only NFL club without secondary uniform numbers (known as TV numbers) until they debuted on the sleeves in the 1980 season; they were the only team in the league without them previous to that.
The club also altered the color of its helmet facemask from gray to black that year. It wasn’t until 1981 that the club ditched its Cleveland-style jerseys. A then-unique uniform layout was established during that year. The team’s black and white jerseys, as well as their white bottoms, were now accented with orange and black tiger stripes. The squad also popularized orange helmets with black tiger stripes, which are being used today. The Bengals’ new helmets have been compared to “varicose pumpkins” by Sports Illustrated.
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The Bengals developed a jumping tiger emblem in 1997. And it was put to the jersey sleeves (with this, the TV numbers moved to the shoulder). A Bengal’s head looking to the left was another alternative logo. The orange helmet with black tiger stripes, nevertheless, remained the signature. The outfits were updated in 2004 with a new tiger stripe design and additional embellishments. Orange tiger-striped sleeves and white side panels were added to the black jerseys. While black tiger-striped sleeves and orange shoulders were added to the white jerseys.
A new logo was created, consisting of an orange “B” with black tiger stripes. [26] The squad also introduced an alternative orange jersey with white side panels and black tiger-striped sleeves. As well as rotating black pants. Since 2005, the Bengals have worn white for home games in September when the heat may be an issue.
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The Bengals debuted their all-white Color Rush alternative jersey in 2016. Which included black tiger stripes down the sleeves and on the pants. Orange was solely used on the Nike emblem, the team logo, and the player’s name as an outline color. On January 21, 2021, the club unveiled a new uniform design. Beginning in the 2021 NFL season, the new-look version will be worn. The appearance is simplified by eliminating the side and shoulder panels. Producing a new stripe pattern for the sleeves, removing the number block shadow, and eliminating the stroke on the player’s name.
The team’s wordmark is also on the chest, and there are no TV numbers on the sleeves in this set. The color of orange was also altered.
Cincinnati Bengals FAQ
The Bengals are owned by who?
Following Paul Brown’s death in 1991, his son, Mike Brown, gained ownership of the team. Brown bought the Bengals franchise from the estate of co-founder Austin Knowlton in 2011. And he currently owns the majority of the franchise.
How many times have the Bengals been in the Super Bowl?
The Bengals are a professional football team located in Cincinnati, Ohio. That has been in two Super Bowls (1982 and 1989).
Will the Bengals be able to finish the season with a winning record?
The Bengals are aiming to rebound after winning just two and four games in each of the previous two seasons. The victory total for Cincinnati is set at 6.5. In 2020, their first victory total was 5.5.
