The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in C...
The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati. The Bengals compete in the National Football League as a member ...
The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati. The Bengals compete in the National Football League as a member of the American Football Conference North division. The team plays its home games at Paycor Stadium in downtown Cincinnati.
Former Cleveland Browns head coach Paul Brown began planning for the creation of the Bengals franchise in 1965, and Cincinnati's city council approved the construction of Riverfront Stadium in 1966. Finally, in 1967, the Bengals were founded when a group headed by Brown received franchise approval by the American Football League on May 23, 1967, and they began play in the 1968 season. Brown was the Bengals' head coach from their inception to 1975.
After being dismissed as the Browns' head coach by Art Modell in January 1963, Brown had shown interest in establishing another NFL franchise in Ohio and looked at both Cincinnati and Columbus. He ultimately chose the former when a deal between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds was struck that resulted in an agreement to build a multipurpose stadium which could host both baseball and football games.
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