Cleveland team was n September the 12th, in playing against the Brooklyn the year of our Lord 1999, Dodgers, yes, the football team Osomething will swirl from New York had the same through the air in northeastern Ohio. name as the baseball team. Grown men will openly weep as the Cleveland was playing in the moist fragments of dog biscuits dot All-American Conference, and their quivering chins. Ladies will was aptly called the Browns, in · wave towels, bake brownies and re­ honor of their head coach Paul consider the names of their impend­ Brown. Fans dished out the The home of the Oeveland Browns, the Oeveland Stadium, is shown in this photo taken in the 1950s. ing children. Possibly Tim, Palmer, $3.60 it took to get a prime seat, Kirby? or settled for the $2.40 ho-hum Kids will vacate their head­ variety. Seats in the nose bleed phones, put away their inline section of the municipal stadi­ skates and skateboards, turn off um were priced at $1.80. their playstations and forget for They won that game. Then the moment. They'll forget that they won a lot of games. In the the undulating mound of emo­ four years Cleveland played in tions sitting next to them, the the All-American League they guy dressed in the Browns jer­ won the title ... four times. In sey, the guy in the Browns hat, many ways, the league folded in is the same guy who grounded 1950 because of the lack of com­ them for poor grades or staying petition. Fans just didn't want to out past curfew. come out and see their team get­ In a moment the city of pasted by the Cleveland Cleveland and the people of Browns. northeastern Ohio will throw a In 1950, the Cleveland collective and massive fit. Browns joined the established Was it this way when the NFL. Our boys by the lake were Browns first played in 1946? going to get a chance to play the "We didn't know what to big boys. expect," comments former "The commissioner sched­ Browns fullback Marion Motley (76) helped break professional football's color barrier and was a f?rce in Paul Salem News sports editor Bob uled the Browns to play: the Brown's offensive squad. In six of his eight seasons at Oeveland, Motley led Browns rushers. His yards .per Dixon. Philadelphia Eagles in the first rush average was 5.7, and he aclrieved a single game NFL record of 17.09ina188-yard11-carry effort agamst That August day, the newly See Browns, page 4 Pittsburgh.

Paul Brown enjoys the victory after the Browns won its ~st AAFC championship with Otto Graham (from left), Dante Lavelli an~ Mac Speedie. They won the championship game against the New York Yan­ kees 14-9, the first of four straight titles they claimed. Motley (76) was a deadly force in his linebacker role with the Oeveland Browns as seen in this 1946 photo.

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