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The 1964 NFL Championship Game was the 32nd annual championship game, held on December 27 at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. [1] [2] With an attendance of 79,544, [3] [4] it was the first NFL title game to be televised by CBS.
The 1964 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 19th season, and 15th season with the National Football League. The Browns won the NFL Championship , despite having not made the playoffs in six seasons.
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 ...
The Super Bowl — the NFL's championship game — pits the winner of the American Football Conference against the winner of the National Football ... 1964: Cleveland Browns (NFL), Buffalo Bills ...
In the 1964 title game, Ryan threw three touchdown passes to wide receiver Gary Collins as the Browns shocked Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas and the heavily favored Baltimore Colts 27-0 on Dec. 27.
Frank Ryan led an upstart Cleveland Browns team to the NFL championship in 1964 with a win over the Baltimore Colts. The team hasn’t claimed a title since, giving Ryan, who had NFL legend Jim ...
After that, the Colts went on an 11-game winning streak, taking the lead on October 4 with their 35–20 win over the Rams, and clinching a spot in the title game on November 22. In the Eastern Division, the Browns and the Cardinals played to a 33–33 tie on September 20 and were both 4–1–1 after six games.
The Browns finished the season 7-7 in the final season with Blanton Collier — who had coached them to the 1964 NFL championship — as head coach. Sept. 24, 1979: Cleveland Browns 26, Dallas ...