Eight different men caught passes for the NFL Champion 1964 Cleveland Browns. In fact, five of them (Paul Warfield, Jim Brown, Gary Collins, Ernie Green, and Johnny Brewer) accounted for over 95% of the team’s receptions. They had a league-high 28 touchdowns through the air in 14 games. In their Week 15 game at New […]
Very interesting interview in the PD with Frank Ryan, a name all Browns fans should know, he being the quarterback on the most recent Cleveland team to win a professional sports championship. The 77-year-old mathematician had several straight-shooting reflections and observations. A few quick takeaways: he could throw a football 100 yards back in the […]
A mere 31 years ago today, the Browns opened their season with a bang, downing the Atlanta Falcons in the Hall of Fame exhibition game in Canton. It was the first game for the orange and brown after the fateful Red Right 88 playoff loss by the Kardiac Kids, and they looked promising in their […]
So the Browns trade up to get back into the second round to fill a position of need. Then the draftee tears his ACL and misses his entire rookie year. Where have I heard this before? This is just the kind of sad, uncanny coincidence to stir an old Browns blogger out of hibernation. But […]
In the woulda, coulda, shoulda spirit of Browns fandom, we’re game for this P-F-R counterfactual replay of the strike-torn 1987 season. In a nutshell, labor unrest resulted in the cancellation of Week 3, followed by three weeks of replacement players. But what if that strike had never happened? The cancelled Browns game was a home […]
NFL Network showed their rundown of the top 10 Browns of all time. You can watch here, but if you don’t want the preceding commercial, here’s the list: 10. Mike McCormack9. Dante Lavelli “AFC”8. Gene Hickerson7. Leroy Kelly6. Bill Willis5. Lou “The Toe” Groza4. Ozzie Newsome3. Marion Motley2. Otto Graham1. Jim Brown. All Hall of […]
Each year I update a little spreadsheet of Browns stats since their 1999 return. Don’t ask me why. Maybe it’s so I can, in excruciatingly exacting detail, understand just how it is that I am still waiting for a return to championship football, and just how soon that glorious, as-yet-mythical campaign might manifest itself on […]
Nice piece of Browns history research here, with images you’ve likely not seen before, concerning the legendary “CB” logo that might’ve maybe almost nearly adorned (or befouled) the Browns’ orange helmets in 1965. In his pursuit of the story, the author interviews former quarterback Frank Ryan, one of my favorite Browns-I-was-too-young-to-see-play. See him in action […]
Been a while, but the Browns’ offense has awakened me by actually — egad — scoring! Anyway, this piece concisely traipses through the fallout of the curse of The Move. Worth a quick read.
At the risk of treating a player like “a piece of meat,” I bring you this list of “sandwich” Browns, those who have taken two tours in Cleveland, interrupted by a stint with at least one other team. Quality standards require sandwichers to have played in at least one regular season game at each stop, […]
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