The Baltimore Ravens—the Cincinnati Bengals’ youngest division rival—have been evenly matched with Cincinnati on the football field over the last quarter century.
History is still certainly prevalent here. The Ravens, who were the original Cleveland Browns started by Paul Brown, employed Marvin Lewis as their defensive coordinator when they won their first Super Bowl in 2000. Long before that, Brown lost his team to Art Modell in 1963 and Modell moved the franchise to Baltimore five years after Brown’s death in 1991.
Lewis ended up coaching the Bengals for 16 years after getting his ring with the Ravens (and a one-year stint with Washington) and succeeded pretty regularly against his old team.