There are very few Cincinnati Bengals players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That's because the Bengals have been a miserable organization for most of their 53-year existence, because past Hall of Fame selection committees had a Pittsburgh Steelers fixation, and because the Bengals don't have many well-qualified candidates.
Few would debate the first point: the Bengals have endured 20 seasons of double-digit losses and won just five playoff games in over half a century of professional football. The second point is also hard to argue: the Steel Curtain Steelers, Lombardi Packers, outlaw biker Raiders and a few other dynasties dominated the Hall of Fame voting for decades, casting a shadow over many also-rans of the 1960s and 1980s, including the fine Bengals teams of the mid-1970s and early 1980s.