(Reuters) – Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) will be closed the day after the Super Bowl so students can celebrate what officials hope will be the Bengals’ first National Football League championship.
Cincinnati, who two years ago finished with the worst record in the NFL, will play the Los Angeles Rams in the championship game on Feb. 13 and the city’s largest school district has given students the all clear to stay up late.
“In honor of the Bengal’s first Super Bowl appearance since 1988, CPS will not have school on Monday, February 14!” read a statement on the CPS Twitter account.
“Staff and students will have the day off to celebrate what we believe will be our city’s first-ever Super Bowl victory!”
The long-suffering Bengals, who before this year had not won a playoff game since 1991, are one of 12 teams that have never won a Super Bowl and have been revived by the inspired performances of second-year quarterback Joe Burrow.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto, editing by Ed Osmond)
