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February, 20 2012
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Cincinnati Bengals Team History
 Planning
for the Cincinnati Bengals franchise began three full years
before the team began playing in the American Football League
in 1968. Paul Brown, who had enjoyed exceptional success as
the head coach of the Cleveland Browns for 17 seasons before
departing in 1962, had the urge to get back into pro football.
In 1965, he met with then-Governor Jim Rhodes and the two agreed
the state could accommodate a second pro football team.
A year later in 1966, Cincinnati's city council approved the
construction of 60,389-seat Riverfront Stadium, which was scheduled
for completion by 1970. The next year, a group headed by Brown
was awarded an American Football League franchise that would
begin play in 1968. Brown named his team the Bengals in recognition
of previous Cincinnati pro football franchises with the same
name in the 1930s and 1940s. Brown himself returned to the coaching
ranks on the Bengals sidelines for the first eight years. He
retired after the 1975 season but continued to serve as general
manager until his death in 1991. Mike Brown then succeeded his
father as general manager.
The 1968 Bengals won their first two home games in 28,000-seat
Nippert Stadium against Denver and Buffalo and finished with
a 3-11 record, the most an expansion team of the 1960s recorded.
Cincinnati improved enough in 1969 that Brown was named the
AFL Coach of the Year. In 1970, they captured the AFC Central
division title and thus became the first expansion team to win
a championship of any kind in just three years.
In 1971, the Bengals selected Ken Anderson, a quarterback from
little-known Augustana College, in the third round of the draft.
For the next 16 seasons, Anderson was the key man of the Cincinnati
offense and a four-time AFC individual passing champion. Cincinnati
won its second AFC Central championship in 1973 and a wild-card
berth in the 1975 playoffs in Brown's final year as coach. The
Bengals missed the playoffs for the next five seasons but won
big in 1981, the year the Bengals unveiled their new uniforms
with tiger-striped helmets, jerseys and pants. Cincinnati, with
Forrest Gregg as coach, won the AFC Central with a 12-4 record
and defeated San Diego 27-7 in the AFC championship game. However,
they lost the Super Bowl XVI showdown with the San Francisco
49ers, 26-21.
The Bengals had a second shot at the Super Bowl following the
1988 season when, under Coach Sam Wyche and quarterback Boomer
Esiason, they improved from the dismal 4-12 record in 1987 to
a 12-4 regular-season record. They then defeated Buffalo 21-10
for the AFC championship. But in Super Bowl XXIII, they lost
20-16 to the 49ers on a last-minute touchdown pass by Joe Montana.
In addition to Anderson and Esiason, the Bengals have been able
to boast of many outstanding players since their first game
in 1968. None, however, was more outstanding than tackle Anthony
Muñoz, a first-round draft pick in 1981. A perennial
all-pro choice, the USC graduate was selected to play in 11
straight Pro Bowls from 1982 to 1992 and was inducted into the
Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1998. |
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The NFL folded its development league
in Europe after 16 years Friday.
The decision was made so the league could put a stronger international focus
season games outside the United States.
The announcement came less than a week after the Hamburg Sea Devils beat the
28 in the World Bowl championship in Frankfurt before a
crowd of 48,125. Five of the league's six teams were based in Germany, while
the other was in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
season games outside the
United States. The first such game is October 28 in London, England between
the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants.
focus the NFL's strategy on initiatives with global
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