Cleveland won the league championship in its first NFL season, followed by two more in 1954 and 1955.

The official team portrait of the 1948 Cleveland Browns, who recorded professional football's first-ever unbeaten and untied season.

Meanwhile, the Browns unexpectedly had Cleveland to themselves ; the NFL's Cleveland Rams, who had continually lost money despite winning the 1945 NFL championship, moved to Los Angeles after that season.

Still, Cleveland finished the regular season 9 – 3 as Graham and Lavelli excelled on offense and linemen Len Ford and Don Colo held up the defense.

Dante Lavelli and Frank Gatski retired at the end of the season, leaving Groza as the only original Cleveland player still on the team.

Before the 1958 season, Cleveland was again in search of a quarterback.

Entering the final game of the 1958 season, Cleveland needed to either win or tie against the New York Giants to clinch the Eastern Conference title and the right to host the championship game.

During the 1869 season, Cleveland was among several cities which established professional baseball teams following the success of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional team.

Cleveland played their full schedule to July 19 followed by two games versus Boston in mid-August and disbanded at the end of the season.

The National League required distinct colors for the 1882 season, so the Cleveland Forest Citys became the Cleveland Blues.

Following the 1899 season, the National League disbanded four teams, including the Cleveland franchise.

The disastrous 1899 season would actually be a step toward a new future for Cleveland fans the next year.

1909 Cleveland Naps season | 1909 Cleveland Naps

Cy Young, who returned to Cleveland in 1909, was ineffective for most of his three remaining years and Addie Joss died from tubercular meningitis prior to the season.

With just a few games left in the season, and Cleveland and Chicago neck-and-neck for first place at 94 – 54 and 95 – 56 respectively, the Chicago owner suspended eight players.

By the end of the 1993 season, the team was in transition, leaving Cleveland Stadium and fielding a talented nucleus of young players.

Having contended for the division in the aborted 1994 season, Cleveland sprinted to a 100 – 44 record ( 18 games were lost to player / owner negotiations ) in 1995 winning its first ever divisional title.

After defeating the wild-card Boston Red Sox 3-1 in the Division Series, Cleveland lost the 1998 ALCS in six games to the New York Yankees, who had come into the playoffs with a then-AL record 114 wins in the regular season.

For the 1999 season, Cleveland added relief pitcher Ricardo Rincón and second baseman Roberto Alomar, brother of catcher Sandy Alomar, Jr, and won the Central Division title for the fifth consecutive year.

He made his first appearance in an Indians uniform since he left Cleveland after the 2002 season.

Young was traded back to Cleveland, the place where he played over half his career, before the 1909 season, to the Cleveland Naps of the American League.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

Growing on rocky slopes, the plants dry out during the dry season and become a rusty orange color, but quickly turn green and become active again once it starts to rain.

In 2000, the Falcons suffered through another horrendous season finishing 4-12 and once again missing the playoffs.

Ajax won the ' 87 Cup Winners Cup and reached the final again the following season.

They also finished third in the Eredivisie that season, again qualifying for the UEFA Cup, after spending most of the season in the top two spots.

The 49ers faced the Cowboys again that same season in the NFC title game.

Previous radio flagships for the Orioles have been WCBM from 1954 to 1956, and again for the 1987 season ; and the now-defunct WFBR from 1979 through 1986.

The Bengals returned to the playoffs again in 2009 in a season that included the franchise's first ever division sweep.

Ultimately, two of the league's western clubs went out of business during the first season and the Chicago Fire left that city's White Stockings impoverished, unable to field a team again until 1874.

The Cubs won the NL East once again that season winning 93 games.

The win propelled the Cubs into the postseason once again with a 90 – 73 regular season tally.

The club once again led the majors in attendance, drawing 3, 281, 511 fans for the season.

The Rockies once again led the league in attendance for the season.

The Leyland era lasted just one year, as a frustrated Leyland retired following the season, not to manage in the majors again until 2006, when he won an AL Pennant with the Detroit Tigers.

Neagle went 19 – 23 in three years with the Rockies ; he was injured in 2003 and never pitched in the majors again before the Rockies released him after the 2004 season.

In 2004, the Rockies acquired Vinny Castilla, who had been with the club for its inaugural 1993 season, once again, and he hit 35 homers.

He will guest star again in the show's sixth season.

The following season, they again defeated the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII, 30 – 13.

In 1995, Jones lured All-Pro cornerback Deion Sanders away from San Francisco, and Dallas once again posted a 12 – 4 regular season record.

Nine years later the two teams met at The Stick again in the NFC Championship Game ; in their third season together 49ers coach Bill Walsh and quarterback Joe Montana authored a history-making moment on Montana's last-minute touchdown to Dwight Clark and a 28-27 San Francisco win.

The Wings played nine games against the Canadiens and went 3-5-1 ; they did not play in Europe again until the preseason and start of the 2009-10 NHL season in Sweden against the St. Louis Blues.

Detroit reached the Finals again the following season, only to be swept again by Toronto.