Word: clevelandism
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Paul Brown chose the design personally. Little about the Bengals is not of Brown's personal choosing, and nothing is without design. Cincinnati's expansion team was conceived by him in 1967 as a surrogate for the Cleveland Browns, the team he founded in 1946 that bears his name. After 17 mostly glorious seasons in Cleveland, Brown lost title in a power struggle with Art Modell, and Paul made sure he kept total command the next time...
...first eight seasons of the fledgling Cincinnati franchise, which even dressed like the one in Cleveland, Brown coached the Bengals himself and provided them with what small identity they had. By expansion standards, the Bengals prospered until 1975, when Brown stepped down as coach but remained as general manager. That was the last year Cincinnati made the playoffs. Two coaches have come and gone since...
...third, Forrest Gregg, arrived last season, like Brown a deposed Cleveland coach, also fired by Modell. There seemed no more reason to expect Gregg could get by the specter of Brown and be his own man than to imagine the Bengals would get by the specter of the Browns and be their own team. But both things happened stunningly fast, and the changed stripes are symbolic...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (Telarc). The Russian show-stopper by Lorin Maazel and the Cleveland Orchestra...