This is where the story gets good. Oh, yeah, this is where the story gets really good. A longtime friend of mine took his then…

Having the lead in an NFL game is a good thing, right? Well, yes, of course. But there are exceptions to every rule, and one…

The Browns had hit a rough patch at the worst possible time in their game against the Green Bay Packers on Oct. 19, 1980 at…

Coming off a 16-7 loss to the Houston Oilers on Monday Night Football in Week 2 to drop their record to 0-2, the 1980 Browns had their…

Sam Rutigliano is well known for all of his great quips during his 6-1/2 years as head coach of the Browns. He is, without doubt,…

To a man, the Browns players and coaches  — everybody in the entire organization, really — went into the 1980 season fully confident that the…

The Browns marched into 1980, Sam Rutigliano‘s third season as head coach, with all kinds of confidence. And well they should have. Everything was moving…

The best thing about the Browns’ 1979 season is that they proved they had the stuff to beat Pittsburgh. And beating the Steelers was a…

The Browns were stuck in neutral in the first two years of the head-coaching tenure of Sam Rutigliano.  After finishing 6-8 in 1977 in the final season…

As was detailed in the last part of this series, the Browns were stuck in neutral in many regards in head coach Sam Rutigliano‘s first…