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48 unusual facts about Cleveland Browns


Alex Bevan

In 1988 Bevan did a series of musical radio advertisements for the Cleveland Browns.

ArenaBowl XXIV

Windsor was a member of the Cleveland Browns roster during the AFL regular season, but was able to play due to the 2011 NFL lockout.

Bert Reed

Reed signed with the Cleveland Browns practice squad on May 9th, 2012, but was cut on August 26th.

Bill Selby

The three fans made the trip that weekend and debuted a large cardboard sign that read, merely, "Selby is God." (The sign is an homage to a previous "Bernie is God" sign that honored Cowboy QB (and ex-Cleveland Browns legend) Bernie Kosar.

Bryan Wiedmeier

Bryan J. Wiedmeier is in his fourth season with the Cleveland Browns, having joined the organization as Executive Vice President-Business Operations on January 11, 2010.

On January 11, 2010, the Cleveland Browns named Wiedmeier Executive Vice President - Business Operations.

Charlie Hoag

He was drafted in the 1953 NFL Draft in the 26th round by the Cleveland Browns as the 311th overall pick, but he did not play professional sports because of a career ending serious knee injury he suffered in the 1953 KU versus KSU football game.

Cleveland Brown

Writers named the character Cleveland Brown in reference to the similarly named football team, although his last name wasn't revealed until after Family Guy returned from cancellation in 2005.

Contest Show

The program's time slot and duration varied week-to-week, to accommodate Indians, Cavaliers, or Browns coverage.

Daron Roberts

Daron K. Roberts (born November 29, 1978 in Longview, Texas) is a defensive quality control assistant for the Cleveland Browns (American football).

David Modell

During his 25-year association with the original Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Ravens, he worked in the ticket office and in the public relations and marketing divisions.

Shortly after the Ravens' victory in Super Bowl XXXV, Modell was handed control of the team's primary day-by-day operations by his father, team owner Art, who bought the franchise (then the Cleveland Browns) in 1961.

Dick Goddard

After returning to Cleveland, Goddard also took a job with the NFL's Cleveland Browns as the team's official statistician for home games.

Dom Moselle

The NFL's Cleveland Browns selected him in the later rounds of the 1950 draft after he was recommended to Cleveland head coach Paul Brown by the coach of one of his opponents in college.

Don Phelps

After graduating from Kentucky in 1949, Phelps was selected by the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) in the sixth round of the 1950 draft.

Don Cooper "Dopey" Phelps (January 7, 1924 – June 11, 1982) was an American football halfback and defensive back who played for the Cleveland Browns in the National Football League (NFL) in the early 1950s.

Funtaine Hunter

Hunter played college football for the Vanderbilt Commodores football team and signed as an undrafted free agent with the Cleveland Browns in May 2007 but waived days later.

Gary Tranquill

After the 1990 season in which Virginia attained a #1 ranking behind a potent offense, Tranquill became the quarterbacks coach for the Cleveland Browns from 1991 to 1993.

George Kokinis

George Kokinis (born February 27, 1967) is a former general manager of the Cleveland Browns.

Before entering the pro personnel department, Kokinis served as the team's northeast area scout (1996–1999) He started his NFL scouting career in 1991 with the Cleveland Browns, after an internship with the team's operations department.

Gerry Sandusky

Sandusky is the son of John Sandusky, who played in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers, and who later was an assistant coach for several NFL teams, and head coach for the Baltimore Colts.

Jeremiah Warren

Jeremiah Warren (born September 20, 1987) is an American football player for the Cleveland Browns.

Jim Popp

After two Grey Cup appearances (including one championship), the team was forced out of Baltimore when the original Cleveland Browns NFL franchise relocated to Baltimore as the Baltimore Ravens.

Jimmy Haslam

James Arthur "Jimmy" Haslam III (born March 1954) is the CEO of the Pilot Flying J truck stop chain and the current majority owner of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League.

Keith Kidd

After graduating from Eastern Kentucky University, Kidd spent eight years in the scouting department of the Arizona Cardinals, before moving to the Cleveland Browns as their director of pro personnel from 1999 through 2001.

Kofi Bonner

In 1998, Bonner was hired as Chief Administrative Officer for the Cleveland Browns Football Organization of the National Football League.

In 1998, Cleveland Browns President Carmen Policy offered the position of Chief Administrative Officer of the Cleveland Browns to Bonner, becoming the first African-American to hold such a title in the NFL.

Lafayette Leopards football

Costanzo was named to Sports Illustrated's All-Pro team on special teams while playing with the Cleveland Browns.

Lewis C. Merletti

His son, Matt, is a former ballboy of the Cleveland Browns (where Merletti is currently a senior vice president for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL.

He is currently employed as the Senior Vice President for the Cleveland Browns.

Lovell Coleman

Drafted in 1960 by the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League in the 17th round (199th pick) Coleman opted to play in the CFL.

Luke Moore

Moore travelled to the USA to undergo surgery in October 2006, with Cleveland Browns' head team physician Anthony Miniaci carrying out the procedure, following advice from Aston Villa chairman Randy Lerner.

Miles Feinstein

Feinstein also presently represents Ausar Walcott, a former NFL linebacker with the Cleveland Browns, who is charged with attempted murder due to an incident in June 2013 at a bar in Passaic, New Jersey.

Neal Malicky

Upon the Cleveland Browns returning to Cleveland a new training facility was built in Berea close to the BW campus.

Nev Chandler

He was best known for calling play-by-play for the Cleveland Browns from 1985 to 1993, a time during which the team made the playoffs five straight years.

Peter Hadhazy

Peter "Pete" Hadhazy (February 9, 1944- April 3, 2006), was an American football executive, who served as the General Manager of the Cleveland Browns from 1976-81 and also as an executive for the National Football League, the short-lived United States Football League and the World League of American Football.

Prime Time Sports

Among McCown's regular guest callers are boxing writer Bert Randolph Sugar and former football star Jim Brown, who played for McCown's hometown Cleveland Browns.

Quebec Remparts

Similar to the NFL's Cleveland Browns, the team claims the history and records of the original Remparts.

Rick Kreuger

He has also gone on a couple of mission trips with former Cleveland Browns tackle Bill Glass, visiting prisons in Pittsburgh and Florida.

Tom Heckert, Sr.

Heckert was then a scout with the Cleveland Browns from 1982 to 1986 and a personnel executive with the Miami Dolphins from 1989 until his retirement in 2007.

Tony Temple

He entered the 2008 NFL Draft, but was not chosen and was signed after the draft with the Cleveland Browns then released.

Travis Tannahill

Travis Tannahill (born February 8, 1990) is an American football tight end for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL).

Trip MacCracken

He spent eleven years with the Cleveland Browns, where he was in charge of managing the salary cap and the team's chief contract negotiator.

Upon graduation from law school in 1999, MacCracken joined the Cleveland Browns for their first season as an expansion team.

Tropical Park Race Track

A major gambler from Cleveland, Ohio, Silberman was a former majority shareholder of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League who had also owned Randall Park Race Track in North Randall, Ohio and the Painesville Raceway in Northfield, Ohio.

Vince Abbott

He would not make an appearance again until the season's seventh game, when he missed two early field goals in a key game against the Cleveland Browns.

Western New Mexico University

Rod Windsor '08 was an active player as a Wide Receiver for the Cleveland Browns in 2012.

Wind power in Ohio

The North Coast entertainment complex receives 1.5 million visitors per year, and the wind turbine appears regularly on local news broadcasts and Cleveland Browns NFL broadcasts, making it one of the world's most-viewed wind turbines.


1962 Buffalo Bills season

The Bills selected Heisman Trophy winner Ernie Davis from Syracuse with their first pick, but Davis chose instead to play with the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League.

Barry Minter

Barry Antoine Minter (born January 28, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Texas) is a former National Football League linebacker for the Chicago Bears and Cleveland Browns.

Byron Bailey

He played sparingly, but was with the team when they won the 1952 NFL Championship game, 17-7, over the Cleveland Browns.

Christopher Asher

Asher has coached professional athletes Derek Knight (top-5 USA ranked 110mHH), Sergio Santos (1st round MLB pick for the Arizona Diamondbacks), Reuben Droughns (NFL-Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, New York Giants) and Trevor Ariza (NBA- New York Knicks, Orlando Magic, L.A. Lakers).

Ed Ulinski

John Brickels, an assistant coach for the Cleveland Browns in the new All-America Football Conference (AAFC), noticed Ulinski when he was playing at Marshall.

Jerry Rhome

Although he started his professional career in 1965 as the third quarterback behind Don Meredith and Craig Morton, he got a chance to start a game that same year against the Cleveland Browns ( 23-17 loss).

John Yonakor

Creighton Miller, a teammate of Yonakor's at Notre Dame, took an assistant coaching position after the war with the Cleveland Browns, a team under formation in the new All-America Football Conference (AAFC).

Marshawn Lynch

He did not break 100 yards rushing in a game until November 17 on a Monday Night Football matchup against the Cleveland Browns, when he rushed for 119.

Matt Wilhelm

In 2013, he was hired by Cleveland radio station WKNR AM 850 to be a football analyst, and serve as a co-host for the station's Ohio State Buckeyes pregame show, and Cleveland Browns postgame show.

Michael R. White

Some of his accomplishments include passing legislation making banks dispel lending policies that were restrictive to minorities, providing leadership for retaining a Cleveland Browns team in the NFL (after then-Browns team owner Art Modell moved to Baltimore with all former Browns players and personnel to form the Baltimore Ravens) as well as building a new stadium for the Cleveland Browns, and construction of the Gateway stadium development.

Paul Chryst

He was the tight ends coach for the NFL's San Diego Chargers from 1999–01, where he was instrumental in the development of Freddie Jones into one of the NFL’s top tight ends, as well as coaching Steve Heiden, who eventually started with the Cleveland Browns.

Raymond Clayborn

Raymond DeWayne Clayborn (born January 2, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas), is a former American Football cornerback who played for the New England Patriots (1977–1989) and Cleveland Browns (1990, 1991) in the NFL.

Rob Ryan

Former Cleveland Browns head coach Eric Mangini named Ryan as defensive coordinator on January 14, 2009.

Tony Grossi

Anthony "Tony" Grossi (born 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a radio/TV personality, author, and former newspaper sportswriter currently working as a Cleveland Browns reporter/analyst for WKNR AM 850 in Cleveland and SportsTime Ohio, and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee.

WKNR

WKNR also serves as: a co-flagship station for both the Cleveland Browns and the Lake Erie Monsters; the Cleveland affiliate for Ohio State football and men's basketball; and the home of radio personalities Jerod Cherry, Matt Wilhelm, and Tony Grossi.

WMOA

Besides ABC News updates twice hourly, the station features local on-air talent and Adult Contemporary music for the bulk of their broadcast day, The station primarily provides coverage of the Cincinnati Reds and Ohio State University football, but also airs Cleveland Cavaliers, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Indians, Ohio University Bobcats football, and local high school sports broadcasts.

Woody Widenhofer

Widenhofer returned to the NFL for six years as an assistant coach, serving as defensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions under head coach Wayne Fontes, followed by two years as linebackers coach with the Cleveland Browns under head coach Bill Belichick.