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Cincinnati Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals are located in Cincinnati in Ohio. They are members of the North Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The first two seasons the club played as a member of the American Football League. After the American Football League and the National Football League merger, they joined the National Football League after 1970. In 1966, James A. Rhodes, the governor of Ohio convinced Paul Brown that the state of Ohio needed another football team. Cincinnati was taken up as the obvious choice. Pail Brown called it the Cincinnati Bengals because he wanted to make the club have a link with the history of football that Cincinnati already had. For the clubs colors, Brown chose orange and black. Paul Brown did not support the American Football League and only agreed to join it on the condition that after the National Football League and the American Football League merged, Cincinnati Bengals would become a NFL franchise. There was bitter rivalry between the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals..

For their very first season , the Cincinnati Bengals played at Nippert Stadium and finished with an unimpressive 3-11 record. The first eight seasons were coached by founder Paul Brown. The Cincinnati Bengals qualified for the Super Bowls twice in the 1980s and lost both times to the same time, the San Francisco 49ers. In the 1990s, the club lost 14 seasons in a row. However, when Marvin Lewis took over as the head coach, in 2003, the club finally bounced back from those dark ages. Finally in 2005, the Cincinnati Bengals finally qualified to the playoffs after a long dry period since 1990.

It was only in 1981 that the Bengals discarded their old uniforms. Now the team still had black jerseys, white pants and jerseys, these were now trimmed with orange and black stripes. The helmets were also orange and with black stripes.

Currently Mike Brown, the son of Paul Brown is heading the club. The head coach is Marvin Lewis while the Offensive Coordinator is Bob Bratkowski and the Defensive Coordinator is Mike Zimmer.