Editing Cincinnati Bengals (section)

===Fight song===
"The Bengal Growl" is the Bengals fight song. It was written by Bengals entertainment director George "Red" Bird upon the team's founding in 1968. Bird had been friends with Paul Brown for over 30 years. The two had met at [[Massillon Washington High School]] when Brown was head football coach and Bird was director of the famed Massillon Tiger Swing Band. Bird had served as the Browns' music and entertainment director in 1946, and kept that role until Brown convinced him to come to Cincinnati in 1968. His first task was to pen a fight song along the lines of the Browns' fight song, "Hi! O-Hi-O for Cleveland!" The song remains very popular among Bengals fans, who are known to belt out the song at "Bengals backer" bars all over the country. In 2021, Elizabeth Blackburn, now the team's head of strategy and fan engagement, told ''[[The Athletic]]'' recalled stopping at one such bar in [[San Francisco]] during the 2015 playoffs, and was surprised to hear the viewers break out into the song. As a measure of how popular the song remains among the Bengals fan base, when Blackburn wrote an editorial on her efforts to overhaul the team's image for the Bengals Web site, Blackburn specifically mentioned that the song was not going anywhere.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://theathletic.com/2790215/2021/08/26/long-live-the-growl-history-of-the-bengals-beloved-and-enduring-fight-song/|title=Long live 'The Growl': History of the Bengals' beloved and enduring fight song|first=Jay |last=Morrison|work=[[The Athletic]]|date=August 26, 2021|access-date=December 31, 2021|archive-date=December 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231233240/https://theathletic.com/2790215/2021/08/26/long-live-the-growl-history-of-the-bengals-beloved-and-enduring-fight-song/|url-status=live}}</ref> "[[Welcome to the Jungle]]" is also a fight song for the Bengals.<ref name="k008">{{cite web | last=Blackburn | first=Elizabeth | title=Bengals Fans, It's Time to Rule The Jungle! | website=Bengals.com | date=2021-07-19 | url=https://www.bengals.com/news/bengals-fans-it-s-time-to-rule-the-jungle | access-date=2024-08-04}}</ref><ref name="e374">{{cite web | last=Harrington | first=Joe | title=Cincinnati Bengals fight songs for your Spotify playlist | website=Cincinnati Enquirer | date=2022-01-26 | url=https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/2022/01/26/cincinnati-bengals-fight-songs-your-spotify-apple-music-playlist-afc-championship-game/9226166002/ | access-date=2024-08-04}}</ref> The song is mainly played before kickoffs to intimidate visiting teams.