No head-to-head match-up could be any closer than that between the Browns and their opponent today, the Kansas City Chiefs. Each team has won 11 times, with a pair of ties sprinkled in. Neither team has won as many as three in a row in the course of the Browns-Chiefs rivalry. Even considering just the […]
Of the 1,010 games the Browns have played in the regular season and playoffs, the greatest Browns victory of all took place on this date, Christmas Eve, in 1950. On the frozen field of Cleveland Municipal Stadium, amid Lake Erie winds of 28 mph, Paul Brown’s first NFL squad won the league championship in a […]
Most sentient football fans by now have seen some version of the Browns jersey featuring the league’s longest list of starting quarterbacks since 1999 — a total of 22 names to date. But even longer than that is the list of Browns quarterbacks who didn’t get the starting nod for a single game, at least […]
It’s official. The NFL, through its own website, has “honored” the Browns as the top team in their Pain Rankings. Writer Dan Hanzus’ piece is a pretty decent overview of the various disasters of the Super Bowl era, and if you haven’t seen the various videos associated with The Move, The Drive, The Fumble, Red […]
Once again, the Browns have finished a losing season in a tailspin, dropping their last five games. They led the AFC North as late as November 16, but now the rest of the division is headed for the playoffs, and the Browns are headed for another tumultuous off-season. Unlike the past two years, the head […]
We’re only through the first quarter of the season, but it’s interesting to note the parallels between the two quarterbacks in Browns history named Brian. Both fan favorites were largely overlooked coming out of college, barely saw the field early in their careers, and suffered season-ending injuries after becoming the starter. Neither were known for […]
The 1-2 Browns return to action this Sunday in Nashville to face the 1-3 Tennessee Titans, whose head coach is Ken Whisenhunt (Browns’ 1999 special teams coordinator) and defensive coordinator is Ray Horton (same job with 2013 Browns). Another Cleveland connection is Kamerion Wimbley, the Titans’ 30-year-old defensive end, who holds the Browns rookie record […]
Tip o’ the helmet to Dan Pompei for the best piece I’ve ever read on one of the most significant figures in Cleveland Browns history, Bernie Kosar. No player better embodies the full scope of what it means to be a Brown than Kosar, “the most loved person over multiple generations in Cleveland sports.”
The sheer weight of decades of 16-game seasons has largely eclipsed the statistical accomplishments of Leroy Kelly. Though he retired as the game’s fourth all-time leading rusher, he’s now just 55th in career rushing yards. Inexplicably, it took this legendary Browns running back 20 years and four tries as a finalist to make the Hall […]
It was almost eight years ago, back when Wheelie became Wheelie, when I first explored the pattern plaguing those who have worn the number 80 for the Browns. Nothing’s happened in the meantime to wrinkle this fateful fabric, so I’ve delved into the full history with a feature of nearly 4,000 words. The first of […]
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