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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.
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When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.
The squad included seven future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Browns ' first regular-season game took place September 6, 1946 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium against the Miami Seahawks before a record crowd of 60, 135.
These franchises constituted the league for 52 seasons, until the Browns moved to Baltimore and took up the name Baltimore Orioles.
Holt and Roedel, both wounded, recover at the same residence that took in Shelley occupied by the Browns folk.
Unlike the Browns ' previous owners, Modell immediately took an active role in the management of the team, and fired legendary coach Paul Brown on January 9, 1963.
The Browns took a 2 – 1 lead, while Musial hit. 250 with zero RBI.
Many men on both sides knew each other from previous engagements and a minority of Browns men, having gained the advantage took personal vengeance on a prisoner, emasculating him.
" The wives of the Browns pitchers complained, and management, needing to sell tickets somehow, took him up on his offer and had him pitch the last game of the season.
He managed the team during parts of its first seasons and took over full-time in 1885, leading the Browns to four consecutive American Association championships and a close second in 1889.
They presumably took shore in Browns Bay near present day McKenzie's Hill.
There was a World Series in Sportsman's Park in 1926 -- but it was the Cardinals, not the Browns, who took part in it, upsetting the Yankees in a memorable seventh game.
After three years as the regular catcher for the Browns, Lollar was traded to the White Sox and took over the catching job from veteran Phil Masi.
The Browns took top seed in the American Football Conference with a 12 – 4 record.
Browns running back Earnest Byner took the handoff and appeared to be on his way to score the game-tying touchdown, but was stripped by Broncos defensive back Jeremiah Castille at the 2-yard line.
While Byner took a lot of heat from Browns fans and the media for the fumble, what is often overlooked is he was one of the main reasons Cleveland came so close to winning the game.
The Browns had jumped to a 20-13 lead and the Broncos had muffed the ensuing kickoff when Elway took over, first-and-10 on their own 2-yard line, with 5: 32 to play in the game.
Motley took the 1954 season off and attempted a comeback in 1955 after the Browns, who still had rights to Motley under his contract, traded him to the Pittsburgh Steelers for Ed Modzelewski.
After serving as an assistant with the San Diego Chargers in 1973, he took a similar position the following year with the Browns.
After head coach Nick Skorich was dismissed at the conclusion of the 1974 NFL season, Gregg took over as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns, a position he held until 1977.
Then, he moved to the American League Browns, and took over for manager Rogers Hornsby early in 1952 as their player-manager.
After an exchange of punts, the Browns took a 14-7 lead on Kosar's 39-yard scoring strike to Reggie Langhorne with 1: 51 left in the second quarter.
During the Cromwellian settlements the Browns and D ' Arcys took over.
But DeWitt ultimately took a front-office job with the city ’ s underdog American League team, the St. Louis Browns, where he rose to general manager, minority owner ( initially in partnership with Donald Lee Barnes ) and, finally, majority owner.
Browns and ball
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.
* Major Everett-Running back in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles, Cleveland Browns and the Atlanta Falcons ; played high school ball at New Hebron High School and at Mississippi College.
With 6 seconds left, he threw a Hail Mary pass to Ahmad Rashad, who was clustered in a group of Browns defenders, yet managed to catch the ball and land in the end zone.
Although a productive and popular player with the Browns, Byner is probably best remembered for one play, The Fumble, in which he lost the ball on the three-yard line while attempting to score against the Denver Broncos during the 1987 AFC Championship game.
During the September 17th game against the rival Cleveland Browns in Cleveland, Porter tackled punter Chris Gardocki while Gardocki was trying to punt the ball.
The Broncos recovered the ball, gave the Browns an intentional safety, and went on to win 38-33.
In the second quarter, the Steelers turned the ball over three times in a span of 5½ minutes: two interceptions by Browns defensive back Daylon McCutcheon and a fumbled punt by returner Antwaan Randle El that Cleveland converted into a 32-yard touchdown completion from Holcomb to receiver Dennis Northcutt.
Eventually, Indianapolis reached the Browns 20-yard line, but blitzing linebacker Eddie Johnson hit Trudeau as he threw a pass, causing the ball to go straight up in the air where it was intercepted by Wright at the 14.
After the ensuing kickoff, the Browns got the ball on their own 25-yard line.
In his first appearance of the season during week three's loss to the Cleveland Browns, Fuamatu-Ma ' afala carried the ball twice for 22 yards, and also recorded two receptions for eight yards.
During the week nine win over the Cleveland Browns, he carried the ball one time for-1 yard.
Fuamatu-Ma ' afala returned to play in the week four win over the Cleveland Browns, carrying the ball five times for 20 yards.
During the Steelers AFC Wild Card win against the Browns, Fuamatu-Ma ' afala carried the ball twice for four yards, and one touchdown, he also recorded two receptions for 20 yards.
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.
In an AFC divisional playoff game that 1980 season against the Raiders ( January 4, 1981 ) the Browns could've settled for a very short game winning field goal but instead decided to pass the ball.
During his stretch with the Bengals, Kaesviharn played in 87 games and logged 363 tackles ( 286 solo ), six sacks, 15 interceptions, 28 passes defended and four fumble recoveries ; one of which resulted in a touchdown when he returned the ball three yards on a Lee Suggs fumble in the second quarter vs. the Cleveland Browns on October 17, 2004.
Anderson scrambled for 33 yards in overtime, moving the ball from the Kansas City 45-yard line to the 12-yard line, after which the Browns were in field goal range.
Browns and back
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.
The Browns kept rolling in 1955 after Brown convinced Graham to come back and play, arguing that the team lacked a solid alternative.
However, the roots of the curse likely date back earlier to the end of the 1968 season when the blue-shirted Cowboys were upset badly by the Cleveland Browns in the divisional playoffs.
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.
But Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar rallied his team back with 2 third quarter touchdowns, cutting the lead to 24 – 21 going into the final period.
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.
Longtime Cleveland Browns running back Leroy Kelly signed with Chicago.
* Peyton Hillis – NFL football running back ; Arkansas Razorbacks 2004 – 08, Denver Broncos 2008 – 10, Cleveland Browns 2010 – 2011, Kansas City Chiefs 2012 – present.
* Cleo Miller-Retired running back for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Cleveland Browns.
* Brandon Jackson, running back for the Cleveland Browns
* Justin Hamilton-former star at Clintwood High School, defensive back for the Virginia Tech Hokies and former member of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns and Washington Redskins football organizations, was born in Norton, VA and raised in Clintwood.
He was portrayed in the 2008 movie The Express, which was about Syracuse running back and Browns draftee Ernie Davis.
* Jamel White, former running back for ( 1999, Indianapolis Colts ; 1999, Cleveland Browns ; 2004, Tampa Bay Buccaneers ; 2005 Detroit Lions )
The Giants came back to win the game by a field goal and reach the championship, while the Browns went home without a spot in the title game for the second year in a row.
" But the Bengals came back to beat the Browns later in the season.
Nina shows up back at the Browns, Sam in tow, as her house has already been sold.
Landis agreed that Ferrell was being illegally held back and granted him free agency, allowing him to sign a contract with the St. Louis Browns.
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