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This prompted this newer AFL to cease playing after the 1941 season. Paul Brown, former coach of the Cleveland Browns, received authorization from a modern American Football League to create a team in Cincinnati. Brown chose the name Bengals to memorialize the teams of the same name that had represented Cincinnati in the past." [116]
The Cincinnati Bengals finished the regular season with a 10–7 record, clinching the AFC North with a 34–31 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 17. The Bengals defeated the Las Vegas Raiders in the wild-card round 26–19, clinching their first playoff victory since 1990, before proceeding to squeak past the top-seeded Tennessee ...
Brown called his new franchise the Bengals because Cincinnati had a team of that name in the 1930s and he thought it would provide a link to the past. [139] Brown's son Mike joined the front office and became his father's top assistant and right-hand man. [139] Brown brought in other assistants including Bill Johnson, Rick Forzano and Bill Walsh.
A professional American football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Bengals are a member of the North Division of the American Football Conference (AFC). The Bengals franchise was founded in 1968 as a member of the Western Division of the American Football League (AFL), [1] before merging with the NFL in 1970. [1]
Michael Brown (born August 10, 1935) is an American professional football executive who is the owner of the Cincinnati Bengals in the National Football League (NFL). The son of Bengals co-founder Paul Brown, he joined the Bengals upon their founding in 1968 and assumed ownership after his father's death in 1991.
The Bengals released him before the start of the 2018 season. 2012: Kicker Mike Nugent Nugent had made a career-high 33 field goals in 2011, his second season with the Bengals and seventh in the NFL.
It is the home venue of the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL) and opened on August 19, 2000. Originally named after the Bengals' founder, Paul Brown, the stadium is currently sponsored by Paycor, is located on approximately 22 acres (8.9 ha) of land, and has a listed seating capacity of 65,515.
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