Several ex-Browns birthdays today. Each of these guys had good NFL careers, with their best seasons being played for the benefit of other teams. Oddly enough (or is it evenly enough?), their birth dates are separated by exact decades:

• Tony Peters is 55
• Mark Bavaro is 45
• Earl Holmes is 35.

And Bob Briggs is 63. Even though he doesn’t quite fit the descriptions given to the other three, I’m wishing him a happy birthday too, based on the facts that he a) was born in the same city as I, and b) shares the same alliterative initials as the Browns’ top draft pick this weekend.