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Browns and on-field
McBride's tenure as owner was viewed favorably, partly because of the Browns ' on-field success but also because he gave Brown a free hand to sign players and coach.
While the Browns ' on-field play in 1956 was uninspiring, off-the-field drama developed after a Cleveland-based inventor named George Sarles let Brown test a helmet with a radio transmitter inside.

Browns and only
When the Orioles were the St. Louis Browns, they played in only one World Series, the 1944 matchup against their Sportsman's Park tenants, the Cardinals.
Under his watch, the Browns won the AAFC championship in all four years of its existence, including the AAFC's only perfect season in 1948, and continued to succeed after moving to the NFL in 1950.
The Browns were NFL champions again in 1964, but have since been only moderately successful, reaching the league's playoffs 15 times and appearing in the AFC championship game three times.
Despite an undefeated season in 1948, only 23, 891 people showed up to see the Browns beat the Buffalo Bills in the championship game.
The Browns, who lost the last game of the regular season to the Lions only a week before, won their second NFL crown 56 – 10.
The only highlights of the 2000 season were two wins over their division rival, the Cleveland Browns.
The Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions qualified for the playoffs despite 4-5 records, the only sub -. 500 teams to reach the NFL playoffs until the 7-9 Seattle Seahawks reached the playoffs following the 2010 season.
Ban Johnson: The president of the American League since its debut in 1901 effectively limited Frazee to the Yankees and White Sox as the only teams with whom Frazee could make a deal by pressuring the other five teams ( the Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators ) not to make any trades at all with Frazee.
The association between hot dogs and baseball began as early as 1893 with Chris von der Ahe, a German immigrant who owned not only the St. Louis Browns, but also an amusement park.
He purchased the Cleveland Browns in 1961 for $ 4 million, investing only $ 250, 000 of his own money.
The team was led by Bob Davies, Al Cervi, George Glamack, and Otto Graham, a future NFL Hall of Famer, who, in his only season in professional basketball, won a league championship before moving on to football and leading the Cleveland Browns to ten straight championship games, winning seven.
However, despite dozens of other releases, only three other Stax / Volt artists charted during this time, and all just barely: William Bell's " You Don't Miss Your Water " hit # 95 in early 1962 ; The Mar-Keys ' " Pop-Eye Stroll " hit # 94 in mid-1962 ( although it was a big hit in Canada, hitting # 1 on Toronto's CHUM Chart ), and Barbara & The Browns ' " Big Party " made it to # 97 in mid-1964.
He often cites Cleveland as his second-favorite city behind only Memphis and is a die-hard fan of both the Cleveland Indians and the Cleveland Browns.
In the end, he was only allowed to take the players, coaches, and front office staff to Baltimore ( even then, not all of them made the move ), and the Browns ' history would remain in Cleveland — they restarted in 1999.
The Browns, on the other hand, needed only a tie to clinch the Eastern championship.
After hitting " only ". 298 and seeing an almost 200 point drop in his OPS percentage, Manush was traded on December 13, to the Browns in exchange for outfielder Harry Rice, mediocre starter Elam Vangilder, and Chick Galloway.
The NL won four of these Series, while the AA won only one, in when the St. Louis Browns ( now Cardinals ) defeated the Chicago White Stockings ( now Cubs ).
His first major league game was on September 25, ( by which time the Browns had moved to Baltimore ), but that was the only game he ever played for the Orioles.
After encountering similar problems in battling Browns ' quarterback Milt Plum, Dawson was released, having completed only 21 passes for 204 yards and two touchdowns in his five seasons of NFL play.
Unlike other Brown sisters, however, she may only appear to be in these reveries to disguise her intentions, as she is at times very sharp and insightful, a trait very uncommon among true Browns.
In 1944, his opening-game home run gave the Browns their first victory and was their only home run in a World Series game.
As of the 2011-12 season, if Super Bowls are included, Cleveland Browns Stadium is only current NFL venue that has yet to host a playoff game.
The Browns ' management of the estate not only oversaw this vast expansion of land, but saw many improvements to the land itself, including a large afforestation program ( resulting in the present-day Lanfine Wood ), the erection of a stately home and three gatehouses, the installation of Browns Road ( which runs from Newmilns to Darvel and allows access to the estate ) and the introduction of small game to the area.

Browns and their
The Browns had few worthy rivals among the AAFC's eight teams, but the New York Yankees and San Francisco 49ers were their closest competition.
The Browns, however, became victims of their own success.
The NFL has so far refused to acknowledge AAFC statistics and records because the Browns ' achievements – including their perfect season – did not take place in the NFL or against NFL teams, and not even in a league fully absorbed by the NFL.
That made the Browns ' entry into the NFL in the 1950 season the first test of whether their early supremacy could carry over into a more established league.
The Browns quashed any doubts about their prowess in that game, with Graham and his receivers amassing 246 passing yards en route to a 35 – 10 win before a crowd of 71, 237.
Behind a potent offense that featured Graham, Groza, Motley, Lavelli and running back Dub Jones, the Browns finished the 1950 regular season with a 10 – 2 record, tied for first place in their conference.
Cleveland then won a playoff game 8-3 against the New York Giants on December 17 behind a pair of Groza field goals, turning the tables on a team that handed the Browns both of their regular-season losses.
The Browns finished 8 – 4 in 1952, but lost that year's championship game 17-7 after a muffed punt, several Lions defensive stands and a 67-yard touchdown run by Doak Walker scuttled their chances.
The Browns came into 1954 as one of the most powerful teams in the NFL, having reached the championship in each of their first four years in the league.
The Browns went on to win their third championship game in six NFL seasons, beating the Los Angeles Ram 38 – 14.
The Browns used the device off and on into the regular season, and other teams began to experiment with their own radio helmets.
The Cleveland Browns ' team colors were brown, orange and white, then they changed to white, black and orange, and their helmets were solid orange with a white dorsal stripe over the crest.
Leading up to the Super Bowl and following the 34 – 0 trouncing of the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship, many were calling the 1968 Colts team one of the " greatest pro football teams of all time " and were favored by 18 points against their counterparts from the American Football League, the New York Jets.
Rosenbloom of the Colts, Art Modell of the Browns, and Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to have their teams join the ten AFL teams in the American Football Conference as part of the AFL-NFL merger in 1970.
On May 2, 2012 it was announced that four players who played for the team between 2009 and 2011 would receive suspensions for their alleged participation in " Bountygate ": Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma ( 16 games ), Saints defensive lineman Will Smith ( 4 games ), former Saints / current Browns linebacker Scott Fujita ( 3 games ), and former Saints / current Packers defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove ( 8 games ).
Then, the Colts avenged their sole regular-season loss against the Cleveland Browns by crushing them, 34 – 0, in the NFL Championship Game.
The Giants ' triumph helped Belichick and wide receivers coach Tom Coughlin make their names and eventually land head-coaching jobs with the Cleveland Browns and Boston College, respectively.
The team then posted a 10-6 record in 1994 after starting the regular season at 3-6, but were eliminated by the Cleveland Browns in their first playoff game.
But, in mid-December, Marshall announced that on the day of the NFL draft he had traded the rights to Davis to the Cleveland Browns, who wanted Davis to join the league's leading rusher, Jim Brown, in their backfield.
In January 1913, he turned down a starting position with the American League cellar-dwelling St. Louis Browns, choosing instead to join the 1912 National League champion New York Giants, who with Thorpe playing in 19 of their 151 games, would repeat as the 1913 National League champions.
" Doc " Bushong of the St. Louis Browns, for their 4 games to 2 win of the 1886 World Series over Chicago White Stockings.

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