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History and football: Bengals have practice in Dayton to celebrate 100 years of football

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Cincinnati Bengals owner Mike Brown customarily wakes up at 6 a.m. to come to the team’s facility. What’s also become routine is the history lessons he renders to new Bengals coach Zac Taylor.

Taylor meets with Brown every morning just to talk and it often leads to an impromptu historical class. Brown is a history enthusiast. The 83-year-old owner’s been around football longer than Taylor’s been alive.

“As a first-time head coach, I feel it’s important to learn something every single day that I’m in this job and I hope to be doing it for a really longtime.