However, Elway destroyed any chance of a Browns comeback by leading the Broncos 80 yards and scoring with a 39-yard touchdown pass to Sammy Winder on the first drive of the fourth quarter.

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.

Since the acquisition of National City by Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services, Cleveland Browns Stadium does not currently have naming rights to any of the gates.

As part of the settlement between the NFL and the City of Cleveland as a result of the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy, any future realignment required the Browns to be in the same division as the Steelers and Bengals.

Legally, three teams from the AFC Central ( Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh ) were required to be in the same division as part of any realignment proposals ; this was part of the NFL's settlement with the city of Cleveland in the wake of the 1995 Cleveland Browns relocation controversy.

Furthermore, the Cleveland Browns ( who were restocked with an expansion draft ) were featured in the Hall of Fame Game upon their return to the league in 1999, despite the league's official stance that says the Baltimore Ravens ( who did not play in the 1996 Hall of Fame Game, nor any Hall of Fame Game since ) are the new team stemming from the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy.

In fact, there is no mention of any of this in several of the films, chiefly " Meet the Browns " and " Madea Goes to Jail " ( 2009 ).

The Los Angeles Rams were the first NFL team to put logos on their helmets, and as of 2011 the Cleveland Browns are the only NFL team not using any form of primary logo on its helmets.

The season ended when the Cleveland Browns defeated the Baltimore Colts in the NFL Championship Game – the last major sports championship for any Cleveland team to date.

A long punt by the Giants ' Don Chandler pinned the Browns on their own 7 yard line, and ended any threat of a loss.

He was portrayed in the 2008 movie The Express, which was about Syracuse running back and Browns draftee Ernie Davis.

The Browns players were so happy about Hornsby's firing that they gave Veeck an engraved trophy to thank him.

Jim Brown and the Jennings family moved into farms near Browns Rd just before and after 1910, the latter on former Blair land. Brown set about dealing with rampant ti tree and rabbits, while the Jennings family moved into dairy farming.

Other players complained about Rube's lack of dependable behavior, and following the 1907 season he had ended as the goat of a series that cost the A's the pennant won by the Detroit Tigers, Mack finally lost patience with him and sold Waddell to the St. Louis Browns for $ 5, 000.

The oldest known human remains in Minnesota, dating back about 9000 years ago, were discovered near Browns Valley in 1933.

* In the pilot episode of Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns, Leroy Brown talked about how he went to a store and asked an employee if the store were selling The Clapper.

* 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.

: This article is about one of four John Young Browns, from Kentucky, who have served in political office.

Stern later expressed regret about writing the article ; the Browns nevertheless did lose the World Series that year, 4 games to 2, to their hometown rivals, St. Louis Cardinals.

The return of the Browns gave the league 31 teams ( the first time since about 1966 that the NFL had an odd number of teams ).

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.

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 ' on-field feats only amplified their popularity, and the team saw a record-setting average attendance of 57, 000 per game in its first season.

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.

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, 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.

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.

The only highlights of the 2000 season were two wins over their division rival, 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 ).

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.