Paycor Stadium, previously known as Paul Brown Stadium, is an outdoor football stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio.
It is the home venue of the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League and opened on August 19, 2000.
Originally named after the Bengals' founder, Paul Brown, the stadium is currently sponsored by Paycor, is located on approximately 22 acres of land, and has a listed seating capacity of 65515.
The stadium is nicknamed "The Jungle" the Guns N' Roses song "Welcome to the Jungle", is the team's unofficial anthem due in part to the nickname.
The construction of the stadium was funded by taxpayers to tune of $555 million, the largest public subsidy for an NFL stadium at the time.
Since then, additional costs have been imposed on taxpayers related to the stadium.
By one estimate, taxpayers will have paid $1.1 billion by 2026, the year in which the 26-year deal expires.
The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football team based in Cincinnati.
The Bengals compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's American Football Conference North division.
The Bengals won the AFC championship in 1981, 1988, and in 2021.
After the first two conference championships, they lost to the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowls XVI and XXIII.
The turning point for the Bengals was during the 2021 season, when they won their first playoff game in 31 years and made back-to-back AFC Championship games.
In 2021, they defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 27–24 in overtime and advanced to Super Bowl LVI, their first appearance in the Super Bowl in 33 years, but this time, they lost to the Los Angeles Rams 23–20.
The following season in 2022, they also made the AFC Championship game but lost to the eventual Super Bowl champions, the Chiefs, at the same exact score as in Super Bowl LVI.
In a Forbes article on the value of NFL teams as of August 2022, the Cincinnati Bengals were ranked last with a value of $3 billion.
The team's official mascot is a Bengal tiger named Who Dey.
Its jersey number is 1.
Aside from Who Dey, the team also has the Ben-Gals, the team's cheerleading squad, which included Laura Vikmanis, the oldest cheerleader in league history.
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