I bet many don't realize that the browns and the bengals have a lot more in common than just having players with personal issues.

I'm sure you'll find this pretty entertaining!

Some entertaining, some completely inaccurate

Both their daddy's was Paul Brown.

True

Both had coaches that had eventually won Super Bowls as head coaches elsewhere...Bill Walsh and Belichek.

Walsh was never HC of the Bengals. So that is wrong as far as it goes. If you want to add assistant coaches....you could include Cowher who was a coach with the Browns

Both were relevant in the 80's and have sucked since the early 90's.

The Bengals have won the last two division titles in a row.

Orange and brown, and orange and black are the colors of fall.. Halloween, pumpkins, and dead leaves.

And dirt. Don't forget dirt. Yes, these two teams are the colors of fall, the colors of football.

Both have had Super Bowl winning assistant coaches that couldn't get it done as head coaches...Lewis, Crennel, Davis.

Let's not forget Dick LeBeau

Neither won a Super Bowl.

the Browns have, however won 8 total championships...as much as the entire rest of the division combined.

Both their intitals are CB.

And so are the Columbus Bluejackets.

Both have been the Steelers bitches for over the last 2 decades.

And in all likelihood the Steelers will be their bitches for the next two decades.

Probably the only two teams in the NFL that have multiple logos ..is it the helmet, the elf, or the "B"? For the bengals is it the "B", tiger face, or leaping tiger? Make up your minds. Kinda reflects the perpetual confusion that these franchises are in.

Lots of other teams have multiple logos. You are just not as aware or attune to that fact because they are not rival teams of yours.

Both are border towns on waterfronts.

Borders of what? states? countries.

Both always seem to rank high in "worst uniform" polls.

Yet, the Browns have one of the absolute best uniforms. A classic.

Fans of both teams can at least find solace in being Buckeye fans.

There certainly are some Browns fans that are not Buckeye fans (talk to MLWoody on this board)

Both were expansion teams...Bengals in 67, the browns in '99.

The Browns are not an expansion team dumbass. The franshise goes back to 1946 when it originated in the AAFC, then joined the NFL in 1950.

Are you seriously ignorant of this history?

Hell, by your method of determining an "expansion" franchise, the Steelers are also one as well. In 1933 they became an NFL expansion team.

Actually, by this reckoning, the Steelers are the only expansion team. Both the Browns and the Bengals joined the NFL as the result of mergers, not expansion

Besides Paul Brown, they shared another head coach...Forrest Greg.

Yes, they did.

Both teams have/had head coaches that are from the Pittsburgh suburb of McDonald, Pa....Marvin Lewis and Marty Shottenheimer.

OK, and the best coach in Steeler history was a native of Cleveland, Ohio.

Fans of both teams made asses of themselves on TV by throwing stuff onto the field...Cleveland with bottlegate, and Cincy when Sam Wysche got on the mic and scolded the fans for throwing snowballs "YOU DONT LIVE IN CLEVELAND" he said.

And Steeler fans make asses of themselves just about every day of every year. They far outrank either Browns or Bengals fans on the stupidity meter.

One is a cat, the other a dawg. Cute.

Browns is not a dog. It is a man...or a couple of men.

They had beaten each other nearly the same amount of times until Cincy pulled away in the 2010's . Cincy leads 43-38.

Randy Lerner's legacy.

Cincy division champs 8 times. Cle 6.

WTF, The Browns won 10 division championship....no, conference or league championships in their first 10 years of existance. That was just 46-55.

Better count again.

Neither team has beaten the Steelers in the playoffs..Cin 0-1, Cle 0-2.

That last one thanks to Butch Davis going into the prevent defense in the middle of the third quarter, and Dennis Northcutt dropping the ball.

Both teams had an idiot fan that ran onto the football field.

Every team has had that happen.

Between Gordon and JF, we have received a lot of bad media. Are the bengels of past with personal issues? We better play good this year. damn it.

A supposed cocaine snorter throwing the ball to a pot head. Sounds like recreation time at the Rehab center to me.

I say we embrace it. Have Johnny and Josh do a video of Beastie Boys "You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party"

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we can have cheech and chong selling 'ice cream' driving through the different tailgate lots before games and at TC.

money-maker.

sold weed to an undercover cop. Twice. Right after draft day, he promised to clean up his act - then got arrested for DUI.

I noticed that too, that some of the Browns' moves and circumstances were Bengalsesque. That rookie FA Crowell apparently has some character issues.

Can't think of many more examples than that though, so doesn't seem to be an overriding theme, except for the big names in the press.

First, Gordon was arrested for being .01 over the legal limit. Most of us are that when we go out to eat and have a few beers. Second, JF has not been arrested or anything else. He is just been put on a pedestal. Third, Crowell has had past issues, but the kid has talent, he should have a second chance. The whole league missed out on Burfict because if his personal issues, and that was a bad call by all. We are in the news becuase of 2 ppl. Does Espn show what our guys do for the local community, hell no.