Steelers Pass Browns for Most NFL Titles

 

I’m sure all of the front runners in Cleveland are happy today to see the Pittsburgh Steelers win their fifth Super Bowl, tying Dallas and San Francisco for the most championships since the merger with the AFL in the mid sixties.  Most of these idiots don’t realize that the Browns have won four NFL titles, because none of them had the words "Super Bowl" attached to them.

 

One of these morons called a Cleveland talk show last week and said the reasons for all of the Browns Backers clubs around the country are because people can’t wait to get out of the city.  Nothing could be further from the truth. 

 

The correct reason is that in the 1950’s and early 60’s, the Cleveland Browns were the dominant team in the NFL.  Players on the Cleveland roster were household names:  Otto Graham, Dante Lavelli, Bill Willis, Marion Motley, Lou Groza, Jim Brown, Paul Warfield, etc.  Until the 1970’s, the Browns had only one losing season in their first twenty years in the NFL, that being 1957.  With Graham as QB, Cleveland won its first title in its first year in the league, 1950.  They also won the NFL crown in 1954, 1955, and 1964, along with four titles in the All-American Conference.

 

Everyone remembers Super Bowls III and IV, where AFL teams (Jets and Chiefs) beat the mighty Colts and Vikings to put the new league on the map.  You probably didn’t know the Colts and Vikings beat the Browns in the NFL Championship game to get their.  In fact, the Browns beat Baltimore for the Colts only loss before losing to Namath and Company in SB III.

 

Despite Art Modell and the poor performance of the team since coming back to the NFL as an expansion team in 1999, the Cleveland Browns have a rich history.  It’s just not a recent one.  If Phil Savage and Romeo Crennel can bring the brown and orange back to prominence, they will be kings in Cleveland forever.

 

JD