The Enquirer/Mike Nyerges
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.
After the 1976 season in which the Cincinnati Bengals went 10-4 under head coach Bill "Tiger" Johnson, the club dropped to 8-6 the next year and then to 4-12 in 1978, a year in which Homer Rice replaced Johnson on the sidelines during the season.