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The Cincinnati Bengals, a professional American football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio are currently members of the Northern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Bengals began playing in the American Football League as a 1968 expansion team. The Bengals began to emerge from more than a decade of being the worst-performing team of that era into a new era of increased consistency under Marvin Lewis. The1981 Season, AFC championship game versus the San Diego Charger is the coldest temperature for an ever recorded NFL game. The Bengals won 27-7 to proceed to Super Bowl XVI. The Bengal's offensive linemen were on the field with the standard sleeveless jerseys in an effort to intimidate the Charger team more accustomed to the warmer California weather. The Bengals had the #1 offense in the 1988 season and were an amazing turnaround story after having a 4-12 record the year before.

The Bengals were historically the losing est football team between 1990 and 2002 and during the period had a record of only 4-5 under a rookie head coach.On October 25, with much fanfare from Cincinnati residents, Monday Night Football returned to Cincinnati after a fifteen-year absence. 2004 was the first time since 1990 that the Bengals won a game on the road when facing a team with a winning record. They beat the Baltimore Ravens 27-26. During the 13 year span that the San Francisco 49ers dominated the NFL, in their 5 different Super Bowl appearances. The Bengals provided noteworthy competition during the title game with an average loss of only 4.5 points, where as most other teams facing the 49ers lost by an average of 30 points.

The 1970 Bengals were at the time, the quickest expansion team in NFL history to make the playoffs. They were winners of the AFC Central division with an 8-6 record, in just their 3rd year in the league. This achievement is notable because at the time easy movement of talent between teams via free agency did not exist. In 2003 and 2004, the Bengals had 8-8 records under Marvin Lewis, in his first two seasons with the team. This achievement is normally unimpressive when compared to the rest of the league, but after over a decade of exceptionally poor performance, back-to-back non-losing seasons was encouraging for Bengals' fans. The previous time the Bengals had had consecutive non-losing seasons was in 1989 and 1990.

The most commonly recognized contribution comes from the "Ickey Shuffle", a celebratory dance created by Bengals running back Ickey Woods in his rookie season of 1988 during the Bengals' Super Bowl run. It has been suggested that this dance, done after Woods would score a touchdown, was the catalyst for the NFL instituting penalties against excessive celebratory performances, and before the 1989 season was over it was relegated to the sidelines.