In Cincinnati, they are getting ready for the Super Bowl.

Good for them.

In Cleveland, y’all are getting ready for free agency and the NFL Draft.
Bad for y’all.

Indeed, what would Super Bowl Week in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio be like if the Browns were playing the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl 56 at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Rams’ home venue, SoFi Stadium, in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood?

Really, really cool.

There would be tremendous storylines, especially from a historical perspective. It would be deja vu II, Back to the Future II or however you’d want to coin it. This would be a repeat of something that happened just over 71 years ago.

The Browns, of course, would be playing in their first Super Bowl. It was on Dec. 24, 1950, in their first year in the NFL after the All-America Football Conference disbanded, they hosted the Rams in the league title game at Cleveland. It was on that same field, five years ago almost to the day that the 1945 Rams, in their final year in Cleveland before bolting to Los Angeles to avoid having to compete for the city’s heart with the newly formed Browns the following year, edged the Washington Football Team 15-14 for the NFL championship.

In 1950, the Browns overcame an eight-point fourth-quarter deficit to win 30-28. The quarterback for the Rams that day, Bob Waterfield, who threw for a touchdown. passed for two scores in 1945.

The teams also met for the NFL title two more times, in 1951. when the Rams won 24-17, and in 1955, when the Browns triumphed 38-14.

Now, all these decades later, the Browns and Rams would be matched up once again with everything on the line.

How cool would that be?

Instead, the Browns will be sitting at home. like most everyone else, watching the Rams and Bengals on TV.

How not-so-cool is that?