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 […]
Dizzy from the swirl of off-season transactions? The helpful handle I grab is to match incoming and outgoing players by position. Such an at-a-glance view makes it easier to analyze the net effect on the roster, while also signaling where the next moves might come. Unmatched outbound players indicate a probable positional need yet to […]
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 […]
Sudden death overtime was a great idea for its time. The invention of former commissioner Bert Bell (who, incidentally, suffered his own sudden death at the first game he attended following the epic 1958 NFL championship) added excitement to the sport by reducing the all-too-common kiss-your-sister anticlimax of two teams slugging it out for 60 […]
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 […]
It can’t be the Browns’ worst season if they beat Pittsburgh. Three games remain before we can say where the 2009 Mangini weenies will rank alongside 1975, 1990, 1995, and the six teams winning five or fewer games in the latest decade. Could they still be the worst squad in the Browns’ long history? Nah. […]
A balanced look at Jim Brown, courtesy of America’s Finest News Source.
Being a Browns fan these days means awaiting the next, previously-unthinkable new way for a team to meet defeat. Yesterday’s worthy contribution to this panoply of pathos: blowing a three-touchdown lead to a 1-8 team and allowing a rookie QB to throw for five TDs and 422 yards, the third most ever allowed by the […]
Guess I was too superstitious to post this earlier, but over the past two weeks the thought came to mind distressingly often. What else could go wrong? The Browns were already 1-7. A national laughingstock. An organizational Superfund site. A national storyline spun off the idiotic idea of a silly, self-aggrandizing fan (boosted by an […]
Further documenting the woeful whirlwind of Browns football over the last decade, I hereby challenge you with my third Browns-related quiz. Name the 19 men who have led our offensive, defensive, and special teams units since the franchise’s resurrection. Go ahead, you know you wanna feel like a winner, someway, somehow. You can do it […]
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