Two important points were driven home on this date 68 years ago.
 
It was on Nov. 23, 1947 that the Browns roared back from a 28-0 second-quarter to tie the New York Yankees 28-28 before an overflow crowd of 70,060 at Yankee Stadium.
 
The rally, the biggest in franchise history, showed just how good those early Browns teams were. When they got rolling, which happened often, they were unstoppable.
 
Two of the four Cleveland touchdowns came on Otto Graham passes to running backs, a 34-yarder to Bill Boedeker in the second quarter to start the rally and a five-yarder to Jim Dewar with five minutes remaining to complete it.
 
In between, Marion Motley ran for 12- and 10-yard scores.
 
Graham passed for 325 yards overall but was intercepted three times, helping the Yankees to that big lead. But the Browns were able to avoid defeat to get out of town with a 10-1-1 record.
 
The second major significance of that game was the crowd. Too many times, the All-America Football Conference is looked upon as having been inferior to the NFL in terms of the quality of the teams and the league’s attractiveness. Neither one is true. In fact, in many ways, the AAFC was the superior league.
 
The Browns proved the strength of the AAFC when they went to the NFL in 1950 and kept on winning.
 
And that crowd at Yankee Stadium blew away the relatively paltry gathering of just short of 28,000 at the Polo Grounds in the Big Apple that day to see the NFL’s New York Giants play the Green Bay Packers.