Despite an undefeated season in 1948, only 23, 891 people showed up to see the Browns beat the Buffalo Bills in the championship game.

* September 14 – Jamal Lewis sets NFL single game record for rushing yards ( 295 ) helping Baltimore Ravens beat Cleveland Browns 33-13.

The Browns beat the Colts 27 – 0 in Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

A crowd of 60, 135 people showed up to see the Browns beat the Miami Seahawks 44 – 0, then a record attendance mark for professional football.

The Browns then beat the AAFC's New York Yankees in the championship.

" But the Bengals came back to beat the Browns later in the season.

The sports section focuses its beat reporters on the Browns, Cavaliers, Indians, Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball, Mid-American Conference football and basketball and Ohio State Buckeyes football and men's basketball.

* September 21, 1970: First Monday Night Football game Browns beat the Jets

Boller replaced Campbell, and the Raiders held on to beat the Browns.

" The Browns beat the Giants 8 – 3 and went on to win the NFL championship in 1950.

This time, he gave up a pair of hits but beat the St Louis Browns 7-0.

When the Cardinals beat the Browns 28 – 19 in Week Thirteen, they were only a game behind and needed a win and a Cleveland loss to have a chance for a playoff.

The Browns would later beat the Ravens again, making it the first time since 2001 that the Browns were able to sweep the Ravens.

Cundiff beat out Matt Bryant in a workout with the Browns ' and was signed after the Browns first choice of Matt Stover declined to sign with the team.

In week 5 of the 2009 NFL season, Cundiff hit the game-winning field goal to help the Browns beat the Buffalo Bills, 6-3.

In the Eastern, the Browns were 7-1-0 after eight games, but on November 10, the Browns lost 9 – 7 at Pittsburgh, while the Giants beat the Eagles 42-14, to tie New York and Cleveland at 7 – 2 – 0.

Overall, the Saints looked sloppy and out of form during the early season, and they suffered their worst loss when the Cleveland Browns beat them at home in Week 7.

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.

That set up the NFL championship match between the Browns and the Los Angeles Rams a week later in Cleveland, a game the Browns won 30-28 on a last-minute Groza field goal.

In particular, ESPN the Magazine's 1999 NFL preview predicted the Rams would be the worst team in the NFL via numerical rating system ; worse even than the Browns who had returned as an expansion team that year.

* Milt Plum, former professional football player, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Rams and New York Giants ( Westville ).

* Most fumbles recovered, game: 4 ; Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns vs. New York Giants, October 25, 1953 ; Sam Etcheverry, St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Giants, September 17, 1961 ; Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers, October 12, 1969 ; Joe Ferguson, Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins, September 18, 1977 ; Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles vs. Oakland Raiders, November 30, 1986 ( OT ).

* Milt Plum ( born 1935 ), NFL quarterback with the Cleveland Browns ( 1957 – 1961 ), Detroit Lions ( 1962 – 1967 ), Los Angeles Rams ( 1968 ) and the New York Giants ( 1969 ).

Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns ( Drafted ), Boston Patriots, L. A Rams, San Francisco 49ers.

* NFL Championship – Los Angeles Rams won 24 – 17 over the Cleveland Browns

* NFL Championship – Cleveland Browns won 38-14 over the Los Angeles Rams

* NFL Championship – Cleveland Browns win 30 – 28 over the Los Angeles Rams

* 1950 ( NFL )-Cleveland Browns 30, Los Angeles Rams 28

* 1951 ( NFL )-Los Angeles Rams 24, Cleveland Browns 17

* 1955 ( NFL )-Cleveland Browns 38, Los Angeles Rams 14

In addition, Saint Louis and Baltimore also publicly financed stadiums for the purpose of luring the former Los Angeles Rams and the first incarnation of the Cleveland Browns to their current locations.

After beating the New York Giants in a playoff game, the Browns went on to win the championship game against the Los Angeles Rams on a last-minute field goal by Groza.

In that game, the Browns defeated the Rams 38-14 while Van Brocklin threw six interceptions.

The stadium was the site of the AAFC Championship game in 1946, 1948 and 1949, and of the NFL Championship Game in 1945 ( Washington Redskins v. Cleveland Rams ), 1950 ( L. A. Rams vs Browns ), 1952 ( Detroit vs. Browns ), 1954 ( Detroit vs. Browns ), 1964 ( Baltimore Colts vs. Browns ) and 1968 ( Baltimore Colts vs. Browns ).

Ozzie Newsome, the Browns ' tight end for many seasons, joined Modell in Baltimore as director of football operations.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

The name of the team was at first left up to Paul Brown, who rejected calls for it to be christened the Browns.

These factors – combined with a war for players between the two leagues that raised salaries and ate into owners ' profits – ultimately led to the dissolution of the AAFC and the merger of three of its teams, including the Browns, into the NFL in 1949.

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.

During the summer before the 1953 season, the Browns ' original owners sold the team for a then-unheard-of $ 600, 000.

The Browns met Detroit on December 26 in the championship game for a third consecutive time.

And this time the Browns dominated on both sides of the ball, intercepting Bobby Layne six times and forcing three fumbles while Graham threw three touchdowns and ran for three more.

Nonetheless, in 1960, the Browns dropped three games by a total of 10 points, finished with an 8-3-1 record and out of the playoffs for the second consecutive season.

Atkins produced records for The Browns, Porter Wagoner, Norma Jean, Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings and many others.

The Colts, however, did receive eventual Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson as a result of a trade during the 1987 season and would go onto compile a 9 – 6 record, good enough to win the AFC East and advance to the postseason for the first time in the franchise's history in Indianapolis, where they would eventually lose to the Cleveland Browns.

The Giants qualified for the championship after a tie-breaking playoff against the Cleveland Browns.

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 ).

The logo replaced the striping pattern that had been on the uniforms since the team's inception ; save for color variations, the striping pattern was similar to that used by the Washington Redskins ( until 1979 ), Green Bay Packers ( until 1997 ), and Cleveland Browns ( still in use ), which is likely why the change was made.

They set a record for most consecutive road wins with 10 ( a streak which ended with a loss to the Cleveland Browns during week 6 of the 2008 season ).

* Seneca Wallace ( born 1980 ), American football quarterback / wide receiver currently playing for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL

In the NFL Championship Game against the Cleveland Browns, he collided with linebacker Jim Houston while running for a first down, and Houston had to be helped off the field after the play ended.

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.

The AFC Championship Game against the Browns was particularly significant because Elway displayed why many NFL experts thought Super Bowl XXI would be the first of many Super Bowls for him.

Denver then won the AFC Championship Game in an exciting game over the AFC Central champion Cleveland Browns 38-33 for the second consecutive year.

The Browns took the ball back and drove to the Denver 8-yard line, but the drive ended with a play that became known as The Fumble resulting more bad luck in Cleveland professional sports lore: Denver defensive back Jeremiah Castille stripped the football from Browns running back Ernest Byner and recovered the ensuing fumble as Byner was rushing in for the potential tying touchdown, securing the Broncos ' win.

Davis was traded to the Browns for running back Bobby Mitchell ( who became a wide receiver in Washington ) and 1962 first-round draft choice Leroy Jackson.

Her brother, Ben Davis, played defensive back for the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.