The greatest streak of success in pro football history – Let’s toast the Browns of 70 years ago 

By STEVE KING

At this stage of my life, when I’m much closer to the end than I am to the beginning, I pick and choose my battles.

And I don’t take on many battles. It’s just not worth it. It doesn’t matter.



But this is one I’m going to take on. Oh, yeah, I’m definitely taking it on.

I see where there’s going to be free beer handed out in Cleveland when the Browns, who haven’t won a regular-season game since Christmas Eve 2016, get their first victory of 2018.

Ha, ha. Very funny. Can’t stop laughing. Another stupid Cleveland joke, perpetuated by the people at that beer company who are responsible for servicing Cleveland. Now we’re cannibalizing ourselves, then, fight?

Geesh!

The Browns deserve all the bad press they’re getting. They’ve earned it, especially for how poorly they’ve played the last two seasons in going 1-15 and then 0-16.

Sadly – and this is why I’m taking on this battle – that this beer thing happens on the 70th anniversary of the Browns’ historic 1948 season, when they won their third consecutive All-America Football Conference championship with a 15-0 record. They thus became the first team in pro football history to finish the season with a completely perfect record – no losses and no ties, just wins – and a league title.

One team has done it since then, the 1972 Miami Dolphins, who completed a 17-0 season by winning Super Bowl VII.

I have to tell you this – people call me the de-facto historian of the Browns – because all but one of the members of that 1948 team, Dub Jones, aren’t around anymore to tell you their fantastic story.

The Browns were just getting started on the greatest streak of consistent success in pro football history in that they made it to the league championship game in each of their first 10 years of existence, winning seven titles.

Pretty good, huh?

Would you drink to that? I sure would – and I don’t even drink.

See: City of Champions nearly 70 years ago

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