This season marks the 50th of football for the Cincinnati Bengals, five decades filled with highs, lows, dynamic personalities and innovations that changed the face of the National Football League. The Enquirer brings you the 50 most influential people in Bengals history through various forms of media, bringing you the names and untold stories that shaped this franchise over its first half century -- good, bad and ugly.
Bruce Coslet's Bengals career started after he worked out and caught passes from a Stanford junior quarterback named Jim Plunkett in a workout in 1969. Sight unseen, Paul Brown signed Coslet – only to cut him.