The 1994 Cincinnati Bengals season was the team's 27th year in professional football and its 25th with the National Football League. On October 2 history was made at Riverfront Stadium, when Dave Shula and the Bengals faced father Don Shula’s Miami Dolphins in the first father-son coaching match up in NFL history. The elder Shula would emerge victorious 23–7, as the Bengals were in the midst of a 0–8 start for the third time in four years. As of the 2012 season, the 1993 and 1994 Bengals are the most recent franchise to be the last winless NFL team in consecutive seasons.