Bengals can make fun all they want, but the original Bengal uniform was a DIRECT copy of the Browns uniform.
Err, actually P Brown just to his design with him when he went to coach the Bengals. The only difference? It said "BENGALS" on the helmet.
"The city's world-renowned zoo was also home to a rare white Bengal Tiger. However, possibly as an insult to Art Modell, or possibly as an homage to his own start as a head coach to the Massillon Tigers, Brown chose the exact shade of orange used by his former team. He added black as the secondary color. Brown chose a very simple logo: the word "BENGALS" in black lettering. One of the potential helmet designs Brown rejected was a striped motif that was similar to the helmets adopted by the team in 1981 and which is still in use to this day; however, that design featured yellow stripes on a turquoise helmet which were more uniform in width."