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…
The Browns of the Brian Sipe Era Deserve Their Nickname
What’s in a name? Well, in the case of the Browns of the Brian Sipe era of the late 1970s into the early ‘80s, a…
The Three Rivers Jinx
“The Three Rivers Jinx,” the streak of Browns losses to the Pittsburgh Steelers at Three Rivers Stadium, reached 16 before Cleveland finally came through by…