The Falcons made a surprise trade up with the Cleveland Browns in the 2011 NFL Draft to select Alabama wide receiver Julio Jones sixth overall.

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 Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1996 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate the team to Baltimore.

The Baltimore Ravens came into existence in 1996 when Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate his team from Cleveland to Baltimore.

Additionally, the agreement stipulated that the Browns ' name, colors, uniform design and franchise records would remain in Cleveland.

Its home stadium is Cleveland Browns Stadium, where it has played since 1999.

The outrage and controversy that erupted, as well as the NFL's desire to keep a team in Cleveland, led to an agreement whereby Modell was cleared to move his team ( which became the Baltimore Ravens ) but relinquished ownership of the Browns ' name, colors, logos and history.

The team's headquarters and training facility, the Cleveland Browns Training and Administrative Complex, opened in 1991 and is located in Berea, Ohio.

The official team portrait of the 1948 Cleveland Browns, who recorded professional football's first-ever unbeaten and untied season.

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.

The Cleveland area showered support on the Browns from the outset.

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.

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.

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.

Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.

Their chief rivals are the Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers.

In the polity of the Church of God ( Cleveland, Tennessee ), the international leader is the Presiding Bishop, and the members of the Executive Committee are Executive Bishops.

The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio.

They are buried together in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.

Also of note are division rivalries with the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Minnesota Twins.

The Cleveland Jewish News reported on the Oberlin event, writing: " Sondheim said: ' Movies are photographs ; the stage is larger than life.

** Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio ; 2 people are killed, 40 injured, and 116 arrested.

They are now kept at The Cleveland Museum of Art.

Now, " adult animation " programs, such as Aeon Flux, Beavis and Butt-head, South Park, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, American Dad !, Aqua Teen Hunger Force ( currently known as Aqua Something You Know Whatever ), and Futurama are a large part of television.

Some native ranges of the white bass are the Arkansas River, Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio, and Lake Poinsett in South Dakota White bass have also been found in rivers that flow to the Mississippi.

Other notable All-Steinway Schools are the Yale School of Music at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, the Juilliard School located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio, Royal Holloway, University of London in England, the University of Melbourne Faculty of the VCA and Music in Victoria, Australia, the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, and the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa.

Some examples are the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Ohio, and the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, South Carolina.

Oklahoma City's city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside of the core Oklahoma County area are suburban or rural ( watershed ).

Among Grampa's stories are the time he chased Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, the time John D. Rockefeller dropped silver dollars on him while floating in a Zeppelin, various times spent harassing Springfield's Irish immigrant community, listening to Thomas Edison recite the alphabet over the radio, when President Grover Cleveland spanked him on two nonconsecutive occasions, and when he " took a shot " at President Theodore Roosevelt.

These two teams are the Lake County Captains ( an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians playing in Eastlake, Ohio ) and the Bowling Green Hot Rods ( an affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays playing in Bowling Green, Kentucky ).

The Cleveland Cavaliers ( also known as the Cavs ) are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio.

His career ERA of 2. 13 and 79 career shutouts are among the best all-time for pitchers, and his 373 wins is still number one in the National League, tied with Grover Cleveland Alexander.

Public schools in the county are managed by the Bradley County Schools school district or the Cleveland City Schools school district.

Sky Ridge Medical Center, formed from the buyout of Bradley Memorial Hospital and Cleveland Community Hospital, are the two hospitals in Bradley County.

During the 1869 season, Cleveland was among several cities which established professional baseball teams following the success of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional team.

The next year the Spiders moved into League Park, which would serve as the home of Cleveland professional baseball for the next 55 years.

While many universities and professional sports teams ( for example, the Cleveland Indians, who had a Chief Wahoo ) no longer use such images without consultation and approval by the respective nation, some lower-level schools continue to do so.

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.

Soundstream's format was improved through several prototypes and when it was developed to 50 kHz sampling rate at 16 bits, it was deemed good enough for professional classical recording by the company's first client, Telarc Records of Cleveland, Ohio.

* Cleveland Cavaliers, a professional basketball team in the United States

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

* Joe Borowski ( born 1971 ), professional baseball player for the Cleveland Indians.

* E. J. Underwood, professional football player for the Cleveland Gladiators ; played for Edmonton Eskimos New York Jets, Buffalo Bills

* Jock Callander Hockey Player ( 1978 – 2000 ) for the Pittsburgh Penguins ( NHL ), Cleveland Lumberjacks ( IHL ), and other professional hockey teams.

* Rex Bumgardner: professional football player, Buffalo Bills ( 1948 – 1949 ) and Cleveland Browns ( 1950 – 1952 )

Prior to entering politics, Johnson was a professional basketball player in the NBA, playing point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Phoenix Suns.

He played college football at Brigham Young University, where he was a two-time All-American ( 1980, 1981 ) and later in the professional ranks with the Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, and Green Bay Packers.

* Lake Erie Monsters, a minor professional ice hockey team based in Cleveland, OH

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, the cost of doing business in professional ice hockey began to rise sharply with NHL expansion and relocation ( a process which involved the placing of teams in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Buffalo, forcing long-time AHL clubs in those cities to fold ) and especially the 1972 formation of the twelve-team World Hockey Association ( WHA ).

Immediately after winning the Anthracite League title, the Maroons issued challenges to both the NFL champion Cleveland Bulldogs and the Frankford Yellow Jackets, who claimed the Eastern professional championship.

In 1920, when owners of professional teams organized a more structured league, Jimmy O ' Donnell, a local sports promoter, obtained the Cleveland franchise.