The original logo of the Cincinnati Bengals football team, who were an American Football League expansion team added to the league in 1967. Paul Brown, legendary NFL coach of the Cleveland Browns who had been fired from that post prior to the 1964 season, was part of the ownership group and its’ inaugural coach and general manager also. Many thought it was a swipe at Browns’ owner Art Modell, who had fired him, that Brown picked the exact shade of orange as the Browns’ colors to highlight the Bengals’ team colors.