Christina Gough
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Cincinnati Bengals - statistics & facts
The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team competing in the National Football League (NFL) in the AFC North division. The team was founded in 1966 by former head coach and co-founder of the Cleveland Browns, Paul Brown. The Bengals have made a total of three Super Bowl appearances, two in the 1980s against the San Francisco 49ers and one in 2022 against the Los Angeles Rams. On all three occasions, the Bengals lost the championship game. One of the team’s more recent period of sustained successes took place from 2011 to 2015, when they made the playoffs for five years running but never managed to make it past the wild card stage.
What are the financials of the Cincinnati Bengals?
Under Mike Brown, the current owner of the Cincinnati Bengals, the team’s franchise value has risen to 3.5 billion U.S. dollars as of 2023. Mike Brown inherited ownership of the team after his father’s death in 1991. Since then, the team’s revenue increased alongside its franchise value. The revenue of the Cincinnati Bengals reached an all-time high of 498 million U.S dollars in 2022. However, despite the team’s increasing revenue figures, the Bengals ranked as the least valuable franchise in the NFL that year. After deducting operating costs such as the payroll of the Cincinnati Bengals, the operating income of the franchise amounted to 104 million U.S. dollars in 2022.How many fans attend the average Cincinnati Bengals game?
The Bengals play their home games at the Paycor Stadium in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2022, the team’s average regular season home attendance totaled 66,247. The cost of attending a Bengals game in that year was relatively cheap compared to most other NFL teams. A family of four could expect to pay around 483 U.S. dollars according to the 2022 Fan Cost Index. This figure is largely due to the average ticket price of a Cincinnati Bengals game, which was roughly 87 U.S. dollars in 2022. Meanwhile, the team with the highest average ticket price that year was the Las Vegas Raiders.Do the Cincinnati Bengals have a strong social media following?
The Cincinnati Bengals placed 22nd in a ranking of social media followings in the NFL as of October 2023, with the franchise’s official X page (formerly known as Twitter) recording approximately 1.53 million followers. The New England Patriots, by comparison, topped the list with 4.67 million X followers. When compared to the social media followings of individual NFL players, however, all NFL teams had a significantly smaller social media outreach. Odell Beckham Jr., a wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens, had nearly 17 million Instagram followers as of January 2023.
