Today is June 1, or, if you wrote it out completely numerically, 6-1-16.

So it is 16 backward and forward.

The Browns and 16 go together, because they have 16 all-time playoff victories in the All-America Football Conference and the NFL. Call them the sweet 16.

With that in mind, then, let’s rank those 16 wins in order of their significance:

1. BROWNS 14, NEW YORK YANKEES 9 – 1946 AAFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – If they had not won the title in their first year of existence, would those first 10 seasons played out differently? We’ll never know, but by getting that championship, they set the bar at the very top and got started on the greatest run in pro football history with 10 straight league title game appearances, and seven crowns.

2. BROWNS 30, LOS ANGELES RAMS 28 — 1950 NFL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – They had to prove their worth and win the title in their first year in the NFL, or else they would have let their doubters have the last laugh. This was the opportunity for which the Browns had waited so long, and they didn’t blow it.

3. BROWNS 27, BALTIMORE COLTS 0 – 1964 NFL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – Everybody checked their egos at the door and the Browns played a near-perfect game to pull off the biggest upset win in franchise history.

4. BROWNS 8, NEW YORK GIANTS 3 – 1950 AMERICAN CONFERENCE PLAYOFF – If the Browns didn’t beat the Giants, the team that had handed them their only two regular-season losses, then they wouldn’t even have gotten the chance to play the Rams.

5. BROWNS 49, BUFFALO BILLS 0 – 1948 AAFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The Browns turned in a dominant performance to complete their perfect 15-0 season.

6. BROWNS 56, DETROIT LIONS 10 – 1954 NFL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – After three straight league title game defeats, the last two coming to the pesky Lions, the Browns took out their frustration and got their swagger back.

7. BROWNS 38, LOS ANGELES RAMS 14 – 1955 NFL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – Just as they had been in 1954, the Browns were at their best in the biggest game of the season, thus finishing their 10-year run in grand fashion.

8. BROWNS 21, SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS 7 – 1949 AAFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – The AAFC was going to be dissolved and both teams were headed to the NFL the following year, but before any of that happened, the Browns had some business to attend to, making it a clean sweep in the AAFC by winning their fourth crown in as many seasons.

9. BROWNS 14, NEW YORK YANKEES 3 – 1947 AAFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – Proving that their 1946 title was no fluke, they defeated the Yanks again.

10. BROWNS 23, NEW YORK JETS 20 (OVERTIME) – 1986 AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS – Given up for dead when they fell behind by 10 points with just over four minutes left in regulation, the Browns put on a comeback for the ages in one of their most emotionally-draining games ever.

11. BROWNS 34, BUFFALO BILLS 30 – 1989 AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS – In another thrilling game that left everyone spent, the Browns held on at the very end.

12. BROWNS 31, DALLAS COWBOYS 20 – 1968 EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – Beating the Cowboys for the first time in over two years and avenging a 52-14 drubbing in Dallas in the 1967 title game, the Browns registered one of their most satisfying wins ever.

13. BROWNS 38, DALLAS COWBOYS 14 – 1969 EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – Though some might have thought that the previous year’s triumph over the Cowboys was a fluke, there could be no denying the fact that the best team – by a mile – won this time, and it wasn’t even close.

14. BROWNS 38, INDIANAPOLIS COLTS 21 – 1987 AFC DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS – After being stunned at home by the Colts just a month earlier, the Browns took over in the second half and got their much-anticipated rematch with the Denver Broncos in the conference title game.

15. BROWNS 31, BUFFALO BILLS 21 – 1949 AAFC SEMIFINALS – After tying the Bills twice during the regular season, the Browns won when it counted the most and advanced to the final AAFC title game.

16. BROWNS 20, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS 13 – 1994 AFC WILD-CARD PLAYOFFS – This outstanding season didn’t get the attention it deserved because everybody was still hacked off at head coach Bill Belichick for cutting icon Bernie Kosar just 14 months before, but it did end up being the final postseason win for the original franchise.