The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League. The franchise was founded in 1945 by Brown and businessman Arthur B. McBride as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference. The Browns dominated the AAFC, compiling a 47–4–3 record in the league’s four seasons and winning its championship in each. Between 1950 and 1955, Cleveland reached the NFL championship game every year, winning three times.
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The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League. The franchise was founded in 1945 by Brown and businessman Arthur B. McBride as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference. The Browns dominated the AAFC, compiling a 47–4–3 record in the league’s four seasons and winning its championship in each. In 1995, owner Art Modell, who had purchased the Browns in 1961, announced plans to move the team to Baltimore. After threats of legal action from the city of Cleveland and fans, a compromise was reached in early 1996 that allowed Modell to establish the Baltimore Ravens as a new franchise while retaining the contracts of all Browns personnel. In 1999, the Browns were announced as an expansion team in 1998 and resumed play in 1999. Since resuming operations in 1999, they have struggled to find success. They have had only three winning seasons, one playoff appearance, and no playoff wins, winning less than one third of their games in total. The team has also been noted for a lack of stability with head coaches, and quarterbacks, along with the longest active playoff drought in the NFL at 17 seasons. After three years ofactivity while FirstEnergy Stadium was demolished and built on its site, the new Browns team was reactivated and started playing again in 1999 under owner Al Lerner. In 2010, the team announced that they would take the field for a reactivated Browns franchise that would play no later than 1999. In late late 2010, Bernie Kosar, whom the Browns drafted in the late 1980s, announced that the Browns would return to the NFL for a second time to play for the Denver Broncos.
In the late late 1990s, Bernie Sanders announced that he would be running the Browns for a third time, but lost each time to the Broncos in the AFC Championship Game. In 2011, the Cleveland Browns announced that Bernie Sanders would be the team’s new head coach, and the team would play in the Super Bowl for the first time since the 1996 season. In 2012, the NFL announced that it would be relocating the Browns to Baltimore for a fourth time, sowing a mix of outrage and bitterness among Cleveland’s dedicated fan base and sowing legal battles. The Cleveland Browns’ official club colors are brown, orange, and white. They are unique among the 32 member franchises of the NFL in that they do not have a logo on their helmets. They play their home games at FirstEnergy stadium in Berea, Ohio, with administrative offices and training facilities in BereA, Ohio. They began play in 1946 in theAAFC and won each of the league’s four championship games before the league dissolved in 1949. Between 1950 and 1955, Cleveland reached the NFL championship game every year, winning three times. The Browns won the championship in 1964 and reached the title game the following season, losing to the Green Bay Packers. When the AFL and NFL merged before the 1970 season, Cleveland became part of the new American Football Conference. While the Browns made it back to the playoffs in 1971 and 1972, they fell into mediocrity through the mid-1970s.
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