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The Bengals–Browns rivalry or Battle of Ohio is a National Football League (NFL) rivalry between the Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns. Both teams are members of the American Football Conference (AFC) North Division, and play two games against each other annually. The Bengals and Browns first played in 1970.
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 (AFL) on May 23 ...
Rallying from a 10–0 first-half deficit against Cincinnati, the Browns came back to beat the Bengals 27–24 and finally snare the Central championship when Don Cockroft kicked the game-winning 22-yard field goal with 1:25 left. The Bengals tried to come back and got as far as the Cleveland 14-yard line before time ran out.
End 1st quarter: Cincinnati Bengals 7, Cleveland Browns 0. The Browns trailed the Bengals after the first 15 minutes. Cincinnati will have a second-and-7 from its own 45 to start the second quarter.
Originally conceived due to the personal animosity between Paul Brown and Art Modell, the "Battle of Ohio" between the Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals has been fueled by the sociocultural differences between Cincinnati and Cleveland, a shared history between the two teams, and similar team colors, as Brown used the exact shade of orange for ...
Two seasons ago, the playoff-bound Cincinnati Bengals rested most of their starters in a meaningless regular-season finale at Cleveland against the also-ran Browns, who were wrapping up a ...
The Browns have dominated the recent series against their in-state rivals, the Bengals. Something they're looking to extend on Sunday. Cleveland Browns look to keep 'the numbers on' Cincinnati ...
The History of the Cleveland Browns American football team began in 1944 when taxi-cab magnate Arthur B. "Mickey" McBride secured a Cleveland, Ohio, franchise in the newly formed All-America Football Conference (AAFC). Paul Brown, who coach Bill Walsh once called the "father of modern football", [1] was the team's namesake and first coach.