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.
The sixth head coach in the history of the Cincinnati Bengals was an unexpected one, in many ways.
On Dec. 24, 1991 Sam Wyche was, quite suddenly, no longer the head coach of the Bengals.