18 Facts About Paul Brown Stadium

1. Paul Brown Stadium was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967.

2. Paul Brown Stadium features a sleek design and blends seamlessly with the city, open to views of downtown to the north and the Ohio River to the south.

3. Paul Brown Stadium is the home of the Bengals on Cincinnati's downtown riverfront.

4. Paul Brown Stadium has several amenities including 144 luxury suites, over 7,000 club seats, two club restaurants and a Bengals team store.

5. Paul Brown Stadium invented the "taxi squad", a group of promising players who did not make the roster but were kept on reserve.

6. Paul Brown Stadium was a tough negotiator over salaries, often refusing to give players raises despite strong performance.

7. Paul Brown Stadium was succeeded by his son Mike as Bengals' team president.

8. Paul Brown Stadium called his new franchise the Bengals because Cincinnati had a team of that name in the 1930s and he thought it would provide a link to the past.

9. At that time, Paul Brown Stadium was the only coach who insisted on calling every offensive play, making use of rotating guards to ferry coaching instructions.

10. On February 8, 1945, Paul Brown Stadium accepted the job, saying he was sad to leave Ohio State, but he "couldn't turn down this deal in fairness to my family.

11. Paul Brown Stadium was classified 1-A in 1944 and commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Navy.

12. Paul Brown Stadium was fourth in balloting for national Coach of the Year.

13. Paul Brown Stadium is credited with a number of American football innovations.

14. Paul Brown Stadium began his coaching career at Severn School in 1931 before becoming the head football coach at Massillon Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio, where he grew up.

15. Paul Brown Stadium is the only football stadium to make a list of "America's favorite 150 buildings and structures", according to a Harris Interactive survey.

16. Paul Brown Stadium was built first to the west; after the Bengals moved, Cinergy Field installed natural grass and was partially demolished to allow construction of adjacent Great American Ball Park to the east.

17. Paul Brown Stadium is nicknamed "The Jungle", an allusion not only to the namesake Bengal tiger's natural habitat, but the Guns N' Roses song "Welcome to the Jungle".

18. Paul Brown Stadium is an outdoor football stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio.