1988 Cincinnati Bengals Season
The 1988 Cincinnati Bengals season was the team's 21st year in professional football and its 19th with the National Football League (NFL). After coming off a disappointing 1987 season, the Bengals tied for the best record in the NFL in 1988, secured home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, and won the AFC Championship, appearing in Super Bowl XXIII, where they lost to the San Francisco 49ers 20–16. The Bengals went 8–0 at home in 1988 and 4–4 on the road. The 1988 Bengals were featured in the NFL Films series '' The Missing Rings'', being included as one of the five best teams in NFL history not to have won the Super Bowl. The Bengals would not play in the Super Bowl or AFC Championship again until the 2021 season. Season summary During the strike-shortened 1987 season, quarterback Boomer Esiason and head coach Sam Wyche had openly feuded, and the team finished with a miserable 4–11 record. Esiason and Wyche worked out their differences in the off-season. I ...
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AFC Central
The American Football Conference – Northern Division or AFC North is one of the four divisions of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The division was adopted after the restructuring of the 2002 NFL season, when the league realigned divisions after expanding to 32 teams. This is the only division in the NFL in which no member team has hosted a Super Bowl in their stadiums. Formation The AFC North currently has four members: Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers. The original four members of the AFC Central were the Browns, Bengals, Steelers and Houston Oilers (now the Tennessee Titans). The AFC North is the only AFC division that does not contain a charter team from the original American Football League. However, the Cincinnati Bengals were an AFL expansion team in the 1968 AFL season (the Steelers and Browns joined the AFC in 1970), although the Bengals joining the AFL was contingent on ...
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