Call it back to the future, if you will.

The Browns may open their 2024 regular season on an important date in team history.

If the conjecture is accurate — and take what you’re hearing and reading with a grain of salt because nothing has been settled, or at least announced, yet — then the Browns may be the team the NFL selects to play the “host“ Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 6 in the opener. Held on a Friday night, it will be the first NFL game ever played in Brazil.

It would fall on the 78th anniversary of the original Browns’ first regular-season game. It was on Sept. 6, 1946 — also a Friday night — that they routed the Miami Seahawks 44-0 at Cleveland Stadium as the All-America Football Conference was launched. It drew 60,135, the largest crowd ever to see a pro football game to that point.

It is the first of just four times, all in a row in the four-year existence of the AAFC, and as such not since 1949, that the Browns have opened their regular season on a Friday night.

More on that the next time.

Steve King