There were three professional football teams in Cincinnati before the current Bengals became a permanent fixture in the city.
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Paul Brown, who founded the Cleveland Browns in 1942, sold the Browns in 1962 and went to work organizing a Cincinnati team that played its first game in 1968.
It was not until 1967 that the football gods again smiled on Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati Celts, Reds, and an earlier Bengals team (formed in 1937) all had short appearances in leagues that soon folded.
There were three professional football teams in Cincinnati before the current Bengals became a permanent fixture in the city