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New lease allows Bengals to play overseas

The Sports Xchange

April 18, 2014 at 3:12 pm.

The Cincinnati Bengals’ new stadium lease agreement with Hamilton County will allow the Bengals to play two international “home” games, according to the team’s website.

Under terms of the previous lease, the Bengals had to play all eight of their regular-season home games at Paul Brown Stadium, which is owned by Hamilton County.

A total of 13 National Football League teams have played in the International Series since it began in 2007, with eight games of the games at Wembley Stadium in London. The San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers each have played twice at Wembley.

This season, the Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys and Oakland Raiders will play at Wembley for the first time.

Cincinnati is one of the 15 remaining teams that have not played overseas.

The Bengals will also get a new $10-million scoreboard, a bigger weight room and Paul Brown Stadium will be outfitted with wi-fi under terms of the new lease, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

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