BUSTED BROTHERS

File this under Pointless Trivia That Would’ve Stumped Me But Might Be Mildy Interesting To You. Three players in Cleveland Browns history have brothers who have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame:

  • Bradshaw-spiker Joe “Turkey” Jones, whose half-brother is the legendary Redskins receiver Charley Taylor
  • Eddie Payton, brother of Sweetness himself
  • 1968 first-round pick Marvin Upshaw, whose brother Gene was inducted just weeks before the NFL Players Association that he headed went on strike in 1987.

I’m still holding out hope that Clay and Bruce Matthews somehow manage to get inducted in the same year.