The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional football team competing in the NFL's AFC North, playing home games at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati. The franchise was founded by legendary coach Paul Brown in 1967 as the AFL's 10th and final expansion team, with the team beginning play in 1968. After winning AFC championships in 1981, 1988, and 2021, they suffered heartbreaking Super Bowl losses to the San Francisco 49ers (XVI and XXIII) and the Los Angeles Rams (LVI), with the 2021 appearance marking their first in 33 years. The team endured a notorious slump from the early 1990s onward, going 14 years without a playoff berth or winning record and earning the disparaging nickname "The Bungles", before a dramatic turnaround in the 2021 season secured their first playoff victory in 31 years. Since Paul Brown's death in 1991, his son Mike Brown has controlled the team, and while there is no official general manager, Duke Tobin handles personnel decisions as the de facto GM. Interestingly, despite their on-field resurgence, a 2022 Forbes valuation ranked the Bengals as the NFL's least valuable team at $3 billion, and Mike Brown has been rated among the worst owners in professional sports.