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The Cleveland Browns were founded in 1944 when taxi-cab magnate Arthur B. "Mickey" McBride secured a Cleveland franchise in the newly formed All-America Football Conference (AAFC). Paul Brown was the team's namesake and first coach. The Browns began play in 1946 in the AAFC.
After several NFL teams threatened to move to Cleveland to become the reactivated Browns (most notably the Tampa Bay Buccaneers), the NFL decided in 1998 to make the reactivated Browns an expansion team; while temporarily giving the league an odd number of teams (causing at least one team to be off in each of the 17 weeks of the NFL season from ...
How The Deal Went Down For 11 long years, Baltimore got the cold shoulder from the National Football League. But when the Cleveland Browns called, suddenly Baltimore was the belle of the ball. By By Jim Duffy with Geoff Brown | January 1996
Nov 5, 2020 · November 6, 1995: Art Modell announced that he signed a deal to move the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, MD, a team that would become the Baltimore Ravens #retro #flashback #throwback #nostalgia #clevelandbrowns #cleveland #browns #baltimoreravens #baltim … https://t.co/xEySbAw1wt pic.twitter.com/K7jZVuxTAN.
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Aug 17, 2019 · Instead, McBride purchased a franchise from the All-American Football Conference in 1944 and started the Browns in Cleveland in 1946. McBride immediately made a lot of right moves that helped the Browns become a great team.
While several of the then-30 existing franchises considered re-locating to Cleveland, in 1998 it was confirmed that the NFL would field 31 teams when the Browns resumed play in 1999, thus while the 1999 Browns were not technically considered to be an expansion franchise, the club's roster was re-stocked via an expansion draft.
Mar 11, 2016 · Cleveland lost the original Browns in large part because it didn't replace decaying Cleveland Stadium, which opened in 1931 and served as the team's home since its inception in 1946.
