Fans of the truly obscure, take note: I have unearthed the ignominious Browns tenure of Pete Athas. Sandwiched in his six-season NFL career was a stint of just six games for the dreadful 1975 Browns. Despite touching the ball on only 13 occasions (six kickoff returns, five punt returns, and two fair catches), he fumbled […]
If you don’t know who Galen Fiss was (or even if you do), you really ought to read this excerpt from Terry Pluto’s “Browns Town 1964.”
More table scraps, dawgs. Here are the pitiful rushing totals for the new era of Browns football (1999-present). Rank Browns Player Pos. Rush Yards 1 William Green RB 2109 2 Jamel White RB 1324 3 Reuben Droughns RB 1232 4 James Jackson RB 1071 5 Lee Suggs RB 1048 6 Tim Couch QB 556 7 […]
Ever had food poisoning? Each wave of nausea is painfully distasteful, yet it somehow brings you closer to having purged yourself of the worst that ails you. Well, that’s why I’m bringing you a series of tables, the Browns’ combined statistical leaders in various categories since their rebirth in 1999. I haven’t seen them compiled […]
We all know about the horrible fate of Browns’ first-round picks in the new era. But no less accursed is the fate of players who have actually been productive. Each year since 2001, the Cleveland chapter of the Pro Football Writers Association has identified a Player of the Year. Every single time, the honoree has […]
Just five times in Browns history has the team’s record improved by at least four games from one season to the next. (I wrote about this in the December ’05 issue of Bernie’s Insiders Magazine.) There are very few commonalities among those various ascendant seasons. The main one is this: 1957 — Primary quarterback: Tommy […]
Here is my attempt to distract you from Reuben Droughns’ latest misjudgment. Sadly though, the diversion doesn’t even take us out of Colorado. It’s one of the most odd coincidences in Browns history, even more unlikely, perhaps, than the season finales of 2003 and 2004. The Browns and the Broncos have met 23 times, 20 […]
Coming soon, from the young sportswriter who wrote the book (which I’m reading now and am very impressed with) on the Kardiac Kids, it’s Sundays in the Pound: The Heroics And Heartbreak of the 1985-89 Cleveland Browns. I’ve been thinking for months it was inevitable that a book on this bittersweet era would be written. […]
Of all the great players to come out of Florida State since Bobby Bowden began coaching there in 1976, the Browns have drafted only two players who made the team: DE Dan Footman (1993 2nd), who was decent, and RB Greg Allen (1985 2nd), a bust. The best ever former Seminoles to play for Cleveland […]
Bill Belichick’s team, citing salary cap constraints, bids good-bye to its star linebacker, who had been with the team since it drafted him in the first round out of USC well over a decade ago. It sounds like a specific sentence, but — remarkably — it now applies to two different players. This year, it’s […]
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