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[1] [2] With an attendance of 79,544, [3] [4] it was the first NFL title game to be televised by CBS. The game marked the last championship won by a major-league professional sports team from Cleveland until 2016, when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals. Through 2023, this is the Browns' most recent league title.
This was the last major sports championship won by a Cleveland-based team until 2016, when the Cleveland Cavaliers, a team that was formed in 1970, defeated the defending champion Golden State Warriors in a seven-game NBA Finals.
Frank Ryan was the quarterback of the last Cleveland Browns team to win an NFL championship in 1964, beating the Baltimore Colts 27-0. ... in the National Football League's championship game ...
In 2017, the Cleveland Browns became the second team in NFL history (2008 Detroit Lions) to suffer an 0–16 record. In 2020, the Browns won their first playoff game since their reactivation in 1999, defeating the division champion Pittsburgh Steelers in the wild-card round.
The NFL Championship Game was ended after the 1969 season, succeeded by the NFC Championship Game. [2] [6] The champions of that game play the champions of the AFC Championship Game in the Super Bowl to determine the NFL champion. [2] The Green Bay Packers won the most NFL championships before the merger, winning eleven of the fifty ...
A coin toss would decide possession of the Ed Thorp trophy that accompanied the league title should the championship game result in a tie. [6] Sudden death overtime was finally approved for the NFL championship game in 1946 [7] and has remained in effect ever since. [8] [9] The first playoff game requiring overtime was the 1958 NFL Championship ...
[8] [9] Reserve quarterback Tobin Rote, a starter the previous year with Green Bay, filled in for Layne and won that game with Cleveland, the next week at Chicago, and the tiebreaker playoff game at San Francisco. [7] It was the fourth pairing of the two teams in the championship game; they met previously in 1952, 1953, and 1954.
a The Washington Commanders last appeared in the NFC Championship Game as the Washington Redskins. b The Browns were dormant from 1996–1998. Since returning 26 years ago, the Browns have never played in an AFC Championship Game. c The Las Vegas Raiders last appeared in the AFC Championship Game as the Oakland Raiders.