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.

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.

The Browns finished in last place in the AL.

He finished the year with five hits and a. 208 average, while the Browns slipped to seventh place.

The Browns again finished in seventh place.

The White Sox lost 2 of 3 in their final series against the St. Louis Browns and finished in second place, two games behind Cleveland.

He was also voted the Player Of Year by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America, and Reynolds finished third in voting for the AL Most Valuable Player Award, behind Berra and Ned Garver of the St. Louis Browns.

( The other players are Jim Ray Smith of the Cleveland Browns who finished his career with the Cowboys ( 1963 – 64 ) and Ray Childress a five-time Pro Bowl defensive end for the Houston Oilers who wrapped up his NFL career with the Cowboys in 1996.

The Wolverines sealed a series championship with their eighth victory in 11 games ; however, the two teams finished the series anyway, with Detroit winning 10 games to the Browns ' five.

He was chosen as the AL's Most Valuable Player that year, the first year an official league award was given, as the Browns finished second to the New York Yankees.

In Belichick's last season in Cleveland the Browns finished 5 – 11.

* At the end of the polka music that makes up the second half of the hidden track, the man playing that just finished playing the polka music asks the audience if they've heard his song on the radio about the Cleveland Browns.

Davis became the Browns starting middle linebacker in 2003 and finished the season leading the team with 171 tackles. He also tied a franchise record with 4 sacks in a single game that year against Kansas City on Nov. 9, 2003.

He finished his six seasons with the Browns starting 83 of 105 games, recording 711 tackles ( 484 unassisted ), 8. 5 sacks, and 8 interceptions.

Kosar played for the Cleveland Browns from 1985 to 1993 and then finished his career with the Dallas Cowboys and the Miami Dolphins.

The Steelers finished with a 10-5-1 record, and went on to face the Cleveland Browns.

He finished his career with the Browns with 80 receptions for 1, 133 yards and eight touchdowns.

Behind a powerful offense led by Graham, Motley and Lavelli, the Browns finished the 1947 season with a 12 – 1 – 1 record and made it back to the championship game.

The Browns finished with an 8 – 4 record but still captured the conference title and secured another spot in the NFL championship game.

The Browns finished the 2007 season with a 10-6 record, just falling short of making the playoffs.

In 1890 the Reds won the Players ' League pennant when they finished first ahead of the New York Giants, and then won the American Association pennant when they finished first ahead of the St. Louis Browns ( now the Cardinals ).

He finished the season with 71 tackles and 1. 5 sacks, his first half sack coming at the Cleveland Browns on December 1.

He was traded to the St. Louis Browns after the 1897 season, and responded with an campaign in which he hit. 317 – the first of seven straight seasons at. 290 or better – and finished among the league leaders in hits, doubles and total bases, while again leading the NL in assists and fielding average.

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 ).

* Most fumbles lost, game: 8, St. Louis Cardinals vs. Washington Redskins, October 25, 1976 ; Cleveland Browns vs. Pittsburgh Steelers, December 23, 1990.

* Most fumbles: 14, Washington Redskins ( 8 ) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers ( 6 ), November 14, 1937 ; Chicago Bears ( 7 ) vs. Cleveland Browns ( 7 ), November 24, 1940 ; St. Louis Cardinals ( 8 ) vs. New York Giants ( 6 ), September 17, 1961 ; Kansas City Chiefs vs. Houston Oilers, October 12, 1969.

After recording an 8 – 8 record in 1988, Elway once again led his team to the Super Bowl after the 1989 season, with yet another win over the Browns in the AFC championship game, going on to face the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIV.

In 1950 he led the league in triples with 11 ; on June 8 of that year, he hit three home runs in a 29 – 4 romp over the Browns.

He set an AL record by driving in six runs in the first inning with a grand slam and a double off White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton on August 29, 1937 ; then, in an 8 – 3 victory over the St. Louis Browns on June 12, 1938, he drove in all the runs with three home runs and a single.

After a 29 – 14 loss to Denver in Week 8, the Browns released Kosar.

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

This negative publicity notwithstanding, Pinkston's 18. 8 yards-per-catch average for the 2004 regular season was exceeded by only one other NFL receiver with as many or more receptions than the 36 he recorded ( Ashley Lelie of the Denver Broncos averaged 20. 1 ), and his six catches gaining 40 or more yards was topped by only three other receivers ( teammate Terrell Owens, who had nine, and Javon Walker of the Green Bay Packers and Dennis Northcutt of the Cleveland Browns with seven each ).

Douglas Leon Atkins ( born May 8, 1930 in Humboldt, Tennessee ) is a former American football defensive end who played for the Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints in the National Football League.

On March 8, 2010 Wallace was traded to the Cleveland Browns for a conditional pick in the 2011 NFL Draft.

Another famous call came on November 8, 1970, when George Blanda came off the bench in the fourth quarter against the Cleveland Browns, threw for a tying touchdown with less than 2 minutes left, and kicked the winning field goal as time ran out.

Johnson began the season with 8 tackles against the Browns and then 7 against the Seahawks.

His most notable play with the Bengals came against the Cleveland Browns on September 15: Frerotte, attempting to avoid a sack by Orpheus Roye, threw the ball with his left hand ( Frerrotte is right-handed ) and was intercepted by Browns defensive lineman Kenard Lang, who returned the ball 71 yards the to the Bengals 8 yard line.

Ghiaciuc was signed by the Cleveland Browns on April 8, 2010.

Davis was forced to resign in early December 2004 after a 3 – 8 start and ended with a 24 – 35 overall record as coach of 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.

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.

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.

The 24 – 17 loss was the Browns ' first in a 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 Browns went on to win their third championship game in six NFL seasons, beating the Los Angeles Ram 38 – 14.

In Shula's second season the Colts compiled a 12 – 2 record, but lost to the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship.

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.

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.

In the playoffs Baltimore advanced to the AFC title game after a 20 – 3 rout of the Cleveland Browns, whereas Miami survived a double-overtime nailbiter against the Kansas City Chiefs.

The team's other two wins came in a season sweep of the Cleveland Browns including a Week 17 24 – 21 victory sealed by a Mike Hollis 34-yard field goal in the Browns ' final game before the team relocated to Baltimore and was renamed the Ravens.

The Vikings defeated the Cleveland Browns, 27 – 7, in the last NFL Championship Game on Jan. 4, 1970, at Metropolitan Stadium.

* 1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.

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Then, the Colts avenged their sole regular-season loss against the Cleveland Browns by crushing them, 34 – 0, in the NFL Championship Game.

Meanwhile, Plunkett and the Raiders defeated the Houston Oilers, 27 – 7, the Cleveland Browns 14 – 12 on a play known as Red Right 88, and the San Diego Chargers, 34 – 27.

Elway's ability to improvise on the fly, in part, helped Denver to make it through the playoffs, narrowly defeating the New England Patriots, 22 – 17, and the Cleveland Browns, 23 – 20, in the AFC Championship Game.