It will happen.

It will most certainly happen.

It happens to all great pro sports dynasties.

That is, their run of success ends.

Nothing lasts forever. At least it hasn’t happened yet.

The New England Patriots are no exception to that rule. The most dominant team over a long period of team in pro football history, they will go for yet another NFL championship when they meet the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 52 on Sunday night.

This dynasty started in 2001. The Bill Belichick-coached Patriots have won five Super Bowls and appeared in two others during that time.

In his day and age of the NFL, when the rules are skewed to prevent one team from dominating for even a short period of time, the Patriots have ruled for over a decade and a half.

It’s incredible. I really is. It’s hard to fathom.

It will be years before we totally grasp just how special this is.

At some point, though, it will end for the Patriots. It won’t happen this season, obviously. And probably not next season, and perhaps not even the season after that.

But it will end, though. You can count on it.

It ended for the early Browns.

Those early Browns are the standard by which these Patriots are being measured. In their first 10 years of existence from 1946-55, head coach Paul Brown’s guys played in a league championship game 10 times, winning seven titles.

If they were playing now and did that, they’d be getting the same kind of attention that these Patriots are receiving.

But that was so long ago – World War II had just ended – and the sphere of the media was so small, so minute, compared to now that the Browns flew under the radar. You also have to remember that then, unlike now, baseball was much, much bigger than football. Football is now bigger than baseball.

So when the Patriots’ run ends – whenever that is — it will be bigger news than when the Browns’ run came to a halt 62 years ago.