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Overall, the Bengals have lost eight consecutive playoff games. In fact, it’s been so long since Cincinnati won in the postseason that their last win was a 41-14 triumph over the Houston Oilers in 1990.

Just 1:36 left on the clock. The Cincinnati Bengals owned the football and a 16-15 lead against the Pittsburgh Steelers in their 2015 AFC wildcard playoff game. It seemed as if a postseason victory would finally be theirs.

Then Jeremy Hill fumbled and Pittsburgh recovered. The Bengals kept Pittsburgh’s drive alive with 30 yards in selfish penalties and the Steelers won 18-15 on a last-second field goal.

It’s been billed as “The Meltdown at Paul Brown” and until the Bengals can find a way to become a disciplined unit, a fact of life that’s haunted this team throughout the tenure of head coach Marvin Lewis, you can’t take Cincinnati seriously as a legitimate Super Bowl contender.

If it wasn’t for Paul Brown, there might not be any NFL teams in the state of Ohio. Brown was the original coach of the Cleveland Browns in 1946 and yes, they were named after him.

In 1962, Browns owner Art Modell fired Brown as coach of the team. Six years later, Brown founded a second team, the Cincinnati Bengals and was again the coach. They joined the AFL as an expansion team and two years later, became part of the NFL in the 1970 AFL-NFL merger. 

That first season of the unified NFL, the Bengals were champions of the newly-minted AFC Central Division, beating among other teams, the Browns, who’d been moved to the AFC Central as part of the merger.