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...Their previous owner, Art Modell, stole off to Baltimore with the team five years ago. There, as the Ravens, the erstwhile Browns have flourished, and will face the New York Giants in the Super Bowl on Sunday. Although the NFL gave Cleveland another franchise two years ago, the agony continues - the Browns have mustered only five wins since their reincarnation, and just fired their first and, until now, only head coach. To many Browns fans, Modell and his Ravens are anathema; the Giants, though bitter rivals of the Browns in the '50s and '60s, will be very popular in Cleveland...
...Browns have been a strong presence in my life ever since, offering me a chance to bore my teachers with Browns minutiae, and illuminating the vicissitudes of life. The first essay I recall writing in elementary school was a lengthy discussion of their post-WWII creation and exciting 1950 NFL Championship. Then, as an eight-year-old in 1981, I remember crying at school the day after Brian Sipe was intercepted in the end zone when the team was a short field goal from the AFC Championship game. When the 49ers won it all the next year I was jealous...
...Baltimore Colts and New York Giants played in what is still the only NFL championship game to extend into overtime. The Colts won, 23-17, in what is regarded as The Greatest Game Ever Played...
...argument can be made two of the top five NFL games of all-time included participants from these cities...
...York Jets entered Super Bowl III as an 18-point underdog to the Colts. (It was the third year in a row that the NFL favorite was favored by at least 13 points over its AFL opponent.) Well, we know what happened next. Jets quarterback Joe Namath promised a victory, delivered, probably celebrated with a few female fans and spawned a number of New York sports guarantees, including ones by Mark Messier and Jim Fassel that were prophetic and numerous ones by Patrick Ewing that weren...