what division is cincinnati bengals in?
AFC North
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 The Browns are only one of 12 NFL franchises to predate the 1960 launch of the American Football League , and only one of three such teams in the AFC . 

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 On January 13 , 2016 , the Browns hired Hue Jackson , who was the offensive coordinator of the archrival Bengals and formerly head coach of the Oakland Raiders , as their 16th head coach . 

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 Cleveland started the season with a 1 – 6 record , recording its first win against the Bengals in October and snapping an 11 @-@ game losing streak stretching back to the previous season . After the game , NFL owners approved the sale of the team by Lerner to Jimmy Haslam , a truck @-@ stop magnate , for about $ 1 billion . In his first move as owner , Haslam announced that Holmgren would retire after the season and that Joe Banner , a former Eagles executive , would be appointed as the team 's chief executive . 

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 The Bengals entered the NFL in 1970 as a result of the AFL @-@ NFL merger , and were placed in the newly formed American Football Conference alongside the Browns . A career @-@ ending injury to Cook before the 1970 season forced the Bengals to rely on Virgil Carter , an emergency backup who could make accurate short passes but could not heave the ball like Cook once could . So Brown and Walsh went to work designing an offense around Carter 's limitations , a scheme that was the genesis of the West Coast offense Walsh later used to great effect when he became coach of the San Francisco 49ers . 

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 = = = Week 12 : vs. Cincinnati Bengals = = = 
