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The Bengals had several head coaches, and several of their top draft picks did not pan out. Following the 1990 season, the team went 14 years without posting a winning record, during which time the team did not qualify to play in the NFL playoffs. During that era they were occasionally referred to as 'The Bungles,' a term coined by Steelers broadcaster Myron Cope, due to their struggles and poor performance. The 1990s and the early 2000s were a period of great struggle. After the first two conference championships, they lost to the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowls XVI and XXIII. The Bengals won the AFC championship in 1981, 1988, and in 2021. In 2011, Brown purchased shares of the team owned by the estate of co-founder Austin Knowlton and is now the majority owner of the Bengals franchise. After Paul Brown's death in 1991, controlling interest in the team was inherited by his son, Mike Brown. Cincinnati was also selected because, like their neighbors the Reds, they could draw from several large neighboring cities ( Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky Columbus, Dayton, and Springfield, Ohio) that are all no more than 110 miles (180 km) away from downtown Cincinnati, along with Indianapolis, until the Baltimore Colts relocated there prior to the 1984 NFL season. The Bengals, like the other former AFL teams, were assigned to the AFC following the merger.

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Due to the impending merger of the AFL and the NFL, which was scheduled to take full effect in the 1970 season, Brown agreed to join the AFL as its 10th and final franchise. He ultimately chose the former when a deal between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds (who were seeking a replacement for the obsolete Crosley Field) was struck that resulted in an agreement to build a multipurpose stadium which could host both baseball and football games. After being dismissed as the Browns' head coach by Art Modell (who had purchased a majority interest in the team in 1961) in January 1963, Brown had shown interest in establishing another NFL franchise in Ohio and looked at both Cincinnati and Columbus.

Brown was the Bengals' head coach from their inception to 1975. Finally, in 1967, the Bengals were founded when a group headed by Brown received franchise approval by the American Football League (AFL) on May 23, 1967, and they began play in the 1968 season. The club's home games are held in downtown Cincinnati at Paycor Stadium.įormer 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. The Bengals compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) North division.

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The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati.

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