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The 1969 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 20th season with the National Football League and their 24th overall in professional football and the last before the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger. The Browns made it to the 1969 NFL Championship Game , where they fell to the Minnesota Vikings .
In the 4th quarter, Cleveland finally got on the board when a diving 18-yard reception by Paul Warfield (playing his final game in his first stint with the Cleveland Browns; Warfield would be traded to Miami in 1970 and wouldn't return to Cleveland until 1976) set up Nelsen's 3-yard touchdown pass to Collins. There were still 13 minutes on the ...
The 1969 NFL season was the 50th regular season of the National Football League, and its last before the AFL–NFL merger. To honor the NFL's fiftieth season, a special anniversary logo was designed and each player wore a patch on their jerseys with this logo throughout the season.
Leigh was a part of the taxi squad of the Cleveland Browns from 1966 to 1967, while also playing for the Panthers. [2] He made his NFL debut in 1968, after making the team. As a running back, he rushed 23 times for 144 yards, a 6.3 yards per carry average, and he scored two touchdowns. One touchdown, scored against the Baltimore Colts, was ...
In 1969, Nelsen had another strong season, leading the Browns to a 10-3-1 record and a postseason berth, as well as being selected to his first and only Pro Bowl. One week after throwing for five touchdowns in a 42–10 victory over the previously unbeaten Dallas Cowboys on November 2, Nelsen spent a miserable afternoon against the Minnesota ...
Initially, the brown tops featured orange numbers with brown and white trim, but were reverted to plain white numbers due to legibility concerns. [2] [19] 1985 – The Browns reverted to the classic look. While the brown jerseys kept the same design it wore two seasons prior, the white jerseys returned to the pre-1969 style with thicker stripes ...
The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team in Cleveland, Ohio. The Browns compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Since joining the NFL in 1950, the Browns have had 67 quarterbacks start in at least one game for the team. Pro Football Hall of Famer ...
Robert Charles McKay (born December 27, 1947) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) from 1970 through 1978 with the Cleveland Browns and New England Patriots.