Browns fan throws a beer bottle at the field Sunday. (Rick Wilson/ Florida Times Union) | ZOOM |

        The Bengals have the same concessionaire, Aramark, as the Cleveland Browns. And the same 20-ounce plastic beer bottles are sold in Paul Brown Stadium that many Browns fans threw onto the field of Cleveland Browns Stadium.

        Many fans, upset with a referee's call at the end of the Browns' loss to Jacksonville, delayed the game by 30 minutes by pelting referees and players with bottles.

        The Bengals take precautions to try to prevent such an incident from occuring in Cincinnati.

        The bottles are sold without lids in the stadium, and the lids are bent to prevent them from being reattached by consumers. The idea is the bottle would be less dangerous if thrown without a lid, said Bill Connelly, Bengals business manager.

Referees duck bottle barrage as they leave the field in Cleveland. (Scott Heckel/Canton Repository) | ZOOM |

        Paul Brown Stadium also is equipped with video cameras that would allow the organization to identify any fan throwing bottles and revoke ticket privileges.

        Another possible change could be having vendors pour beer from the bottle into a paper cup.

        About 25 of the NFL's 30 venues are serviced by Aramark, and the league said Monday it would review everything related to the Cleveland incident.

        Bengals president Mike Brown was upset by what he saw.

        “It was out of hand,” he said. “It can't be permitted. People at a sporting event have the right to vocalize their unhappiness. They don't have the right to down missiles on the participants.”

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