“Answering the Call: How the ’80 Browns Rebounded After a Rough Start”
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…
One Question That Sparked a Turnaround
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,…
Terrible Start to 1980 Season
To a man, the Browns players and coaches — everybody in the entire organization, really — went into the 1980 season fully confident that the…
“1980: Hope, Hype… and the Question That Defined the Browns
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…
Proof in Defeat: The 1979 Cleveland Browns vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
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…
Cleveland Browns Getting Out of Neutral
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…
Cleveland Browns Bright Spots
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…
Close Finishes in the Last Half of 1979
The first half of the 1979 season had all kinds of Kardiac Kids-like finishes — games decided by seven points or less — for the…
Fantastic Finishes to Start 1979
Just as they did in 1978, the Browns began the 1979 season with a bang. Only instead of winning their first three games, as they…
A Browns Season That Really Did Happen This Way
This is not fake news. Nor is it some AI trickeration. And it is not like some old guy talking about walking uphill both ways…