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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]
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 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.
He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the first round of the 1969 NFL/AFL Draft after Bengals coach and founder Paul Brown saw Cook's performance in the Bearcats' come-from-behind, 23–21 victory against Miami University in Bo Schembechler's last game before he left to coach at the University of Michigan. Brown had attended the game, but ...
Bengals head coach Sam Wyche, left, and San Francisco head coach Bill Walsh said "I love you" to each other after the 49ers beat Cincinnati in the final seconds of Super Bowl 23 in Miami in 1989.
Collinsworth was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round (37th pick overall) of the 1981 NFL draft, [19] and spent his entire eight-year NFL career with the Bengals. [20] In his first season, Collinsworth was the team's leading receiver and set the Bengals franchise record for receptions by a rookie with 67, the most by an NFL ...
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.