Cleveland Browns Milestones

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How to play the Cleveland Browns history timeline

The Browns deck collects franchise moments, each with a short description under its headline, and asks you to sort them by year. One card is placed first with its year in view. Read each new card, then drop it in the gap where you think it falls. Right placements show the year; wrong ones still land in the true spot but take away one of your three lives.

The Browns once won constantly, and the deck has a cluster of championship cards from that stretch that are hard to separate. Then it turns into a story of famous playoff heartbreaks, a departure, a return and a long search for a quarterback. The painful moments named in the headlines are the trickiest, because several of them came close together. Look at the descriptions for opponents and owners.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

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Here are 28 of the 30 cards you might be dealt, with 2 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Won the AAFC title in their first season Paul Brown's new team also broke pro football's modern color barrier with Marion Motley and Bill Willis
Completed a perfect season The team went unbeaten through the entire AAFC schedule and championship
Won the NFL Championship in their first NFL season After the AAFC folded, they beat the champion Eagles in their debut and took the title on Lou Groza's late kick
Routed the Lions 56-10 for the NFL title Otto Graham threw three touchdowns and ran for three more in the championship blowout
Won a second straight NFL Championship Otto Graham retired after beating the Rams in his final game
Drafted Jim Brown The Syracuse fullback fell to the sixth pick and immediately won Rookie of the Year
Art Modell bought the team A young New York advertising executive purchased the franchise for about four million dollars
Fired Paul Brown The new owner dismissed the legendary coach whose name was on the franchise
Won their most recent NFL Championship Gary Collins caught three touchdowns in a 27-0 shutout of the heavily favored Colts
Jim Brown retired The NFL's rushing king walked away at age 30 while filming The Dirty Dozen in London
Won the first Monday Night Football game The Browns beat Joe Namath's Jets in the debut of ABC's prime-time experiment
Drafted Ozzie Newsome The Alabama receiver-turned-tight-end arrived late in the first round
The Kardiac Kids won the AFC Central Brian Sipe's last-minute heroics carried him to the MVP award
Red Right 88 A frozen playoff against the Raiders ended on an end-zone interception instead of a short field goal try
The Drive John Elway marched 98 yards in Cleveland to force overtime in the AFC Championship
The Fumble Earnest Byner was stripped at the goal line in Denver with the AFC title game on the line
Hired Bill Belichick The Giants' 38-year-old defensive coordinator got his first head coaching job
Released Bernie Kosar midseason Bill Belichick cut the beloved quarterback, citing his 'diminishing skills'
Art Modell announced the move to Baltimore The bombshell relocation news broke during a season that collapsed afterward
Franchise deactivated by NFL agreement A settlement kept the name, colors, and records in Cleveland while the roster departed
Returned as an expansion team A new stadium opened on the lakefront and quarterback Tim Couch went first overall
Jimmy Haslam bought the team The Pilot Flying J truck-stop billionaire purchased the franchise from Randy Lerner
Finished 1-15 Hue Jackson's first season produced a lone Christmas Eve win over San Diego
Went 0-16 Cleveland became just the second NFL team to lose every game of a 16-game season
Drafted Baker Mayfield first overall The Heisman winner came off the bench that September to end a winless streak of more than 600 days
Ended an 18-year playoff drought Kevin Stefanski's first team went 11-5 during the pandemic season
Won a playoff game at Pittsburgh A 48-37 wild-card shootout was the franchise's first postseason victory since the mid-1990s
Traded for Deshaun Watson Three first-round picks and a fully guaranteed $230 million contract brought the Texans quarterback