Many young fans look at the Browns and laugh, comparing them to the team of today and cannot imagine that they were any good at all, but know your rich history, Browns fans...This team was THE GOLD STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE in the 1950's in the NFL...They dominated the old AAFC and came into the NFL in 1950 and crushed the best teams the Old Guard had to offer.....Paul Brown was a coaching genius and was way ahead of his time.....Before Unitas and his Colts, before Lombardi's Packers, it was the BROWNS.....And the Detroit lions were excellent in their own right......
The curse on the Browns organization is stupidity...They have made bad coaching decisions, a revolving door of upper management, no identity, hell they have even changed their once great uniforms to the crapp they are wearing now...I mean "BROWNS", on the pants legs??? This is nonsense....The uniforms were never broke, the way the team has been run has been...YOU MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK....This team can be something if they got the right people and stop the revolving door stuff, management, coaches, players, always switched, always new systems, and the team keeps being dreadful.....
Everything about today's Cleveland browns, like their new designer uniforms, are bad. I will take nothing seriously from its management. The team is a joke!
@italstallion06 And their fancy halftime shows. And their million sponsors. And their endless commercials on television. The NFL today is nothing more than a money racket full of pampered players thanks to an overly safe commission. The NFL in the 50's was far more raw and just plain tougher.
Though those brownies are my team, I’ve been saying the same thing. Seems like after every win, something bad goes on in the world……. We all have to thank a special dead gorilla for this moment
Yeah. Jerry Kramer and one of the other Lombardi Packers used to run a steak restaurant in Wisconsin to make ends meet. Gabriel and Olson used to own a car dealership in L.A. Nowadays, pro athletes sit back and wait for corporations to come along and offer them millions in stock deals or whatever.
@@lenpey That's for stars. The average linemen or 2nd string player makes a few hundred thousand a year, which is really good if you can keep it. But those guys often are only playing for less than 5 years, and end up with long term injuries.
1957 marked the 25th anniversary of the NFL's first championship playoff game ever in 1932, in which the Chicago Bears led by super-stars Red Grange and power fullback Bronko Nagurski defeated the Portsmouth Spartans (now known as the Detroit Lions).
It's ironic that these two teams, up to the early 60's, played in so many world championship football games, and yet neither ever played in the Super Bowl.
Man, this must be old because the Lions are playing the Browns in the NFL Championship game, because they hadn’t even invented the Super Bowl yet. Can you even imagine a Super Bowl with these two teams? It would actually be kind of cool.
So do I. All NFL stadiums should be open air stadiums with a natural grass field. It might cut down on the injuries too. I hate dome stadiums. Teams like Minnesota and Detroit should've never moved indoors. Neither one has won anything since they moved indoors
The Lions' last postseason win until the 1991 NFC Divisional Playoffs. Also, the last time they have won multiple playoff games in the same postseason until 2023.
Michael Zuko Rote was a bit of John Elway and Marcus Mariota of his time. I can't remember why Green Bay traded him to Detroit, but I wonder what Lombardi could have done with him had he stayed.
Its kinda ironic that the best two teams of the decade prior to the Super Bowl era...the Browns and Lions... are the only two teams to never appear in a Super Bowl besides the Jaguars(EST.1995)and Texans(EST. 2002). Younger football fans laugh at the Browns and Lions but they were once the best in the business. They each won 3 NFL Championship Games in the 50's. The Browns appeared 7 times in the title game and the Lions made 4 appearances in the 50's. They played each other 4 times in the NFL Championship with the Lions winning 3 of them. The Browns other 3 appearances were against the Rams...the team that left Cleveland for Los Angeles shortly after winning the 1945 NFL Championship. The Browns won 2 out of their 3 Championship games against the Rams. The Browns went to the NFL Championship Game in 7 out of their first 8 years in the NFL...that is INSANE. They also won the league championship all 4 years of the old AAFC(1946-49)before joining the NFL in 1950 along with 2 other AAFC teams...the 49ers and the Baltimore Colts. The Colts ended up winning back to back NFL Championships in 1958-59. So that means out of 10 NFL Championship Games in the 1950's there was a team from the AAFC in 9 of them. The only exception was 1956 when the Giants beat the Bears 47-7 in Yankee Stadium in the Championship Game. The Browns also won the 1964 NFL Championship 27-0 against the Baltimore Colts. They appeared in the 1965 and 68 Championship Games also but lost both...first to Lombardi's Packers and then to Don Shula's Colts. The Lions have won one playoff game(1991 vs. Dallas) since their win in the 1957 NFL Championship Game. They've been cursed ever since they traded HOF QB Bobby Layne to Pittsburgh
Growing up in the 70s, the voices of Chris Schenkel, Curt Gowdy, Jack Whitaker and Pat Summerall were part of the soundtrack of my youth. To me, they were THE voices of pro football.
Lol I was thinking the same.. both of them have been the absolute worst teams in the NFL in recent history. And if I remember correctly, the Lions are the only team across all 4 main sports (NFL, NHL, NBA and MLB) to have a winless season.
I’m in diapers on this, the last Sunday of 1957. The Lions have never won a championship since. Tobin Rote would later lead the San Diego Chargers to the 1963 AFL title making him the only man to win titles in two different leagues
Tobin Rote is the only quarterback to win an NFL and AFL Championship. The 57' Championship with the Lions, as seen here. And in 63' with the Chargers. Ironically, it was the last time either team won a championship.
It's amazing that virtually the whole field is dirt. How did the grass ever grow back in time for the baseball season? I also like the hay in the bech area to soak up the mud. What an inovation. It's good to see a football game where they actually get their uniforms dirty.
The Browns were a much better team than they showed on this day.....They were 9-2-1 in the regular season....But the Lions had built up a lot of momentum going into this one, and in this level, games can get away from a team and you get a huge lopsided score as a result....Back in those days both teams were the powerhouses of the 1950's...
No Otto Graham, no Bobby Layne. Never realized that before. Knew it was Jim Brown's rookie year. Amazingly, Jim Brown's only Championship victory was in 1964.
George Wilson wasn't what I'd call an AFL legend. He coached the Dolphins from 1966-69 and never had a single winning season. Don Shula took over in 1970
The great Tobin Rote, first cousin of the great Kyle Rote. SMU running back and father of the great Kyle Rote Jr. Dallas Tornado soccer great. Just ask the great Norm Hitzges, the Hit Man, Mr 123, who call those great soccer matches back before anybody cared about soccer. You're welcome.
I love old films of American football and baseball. They make me think of simpler, happier, less troubled times, when Uncle Sam protected and led the free world. God bless America. (I'm English, BTW.)
Thank you Detroit Lions for making me a life long Giants fan, I was 7 in 1957 and all my cousins, uncles and friends were Browns fans so of course I was too. However after the Browns got clobbered in the NFL Championship game, like a typical 7 year old, I was thru with the Browns. Here in Rochester we had 2 TV stations back then and every week the Browns were on one station and the Giants on the other. I was then the one and only Giants fan around. Since the Giants won the the NFL east in 1958 by beating the Browns in the final game of the year to force a one game play off and of coarse the Giants beat them again, with Frank Gifford ( my boy hood hero) throwing a halfback option pass for the games only TD. All my uncles have passed away but over the years my cousin and friends have switched to the Buffalo Balls and you know how that turned out :-) and I am still a 100% Giants fan!
Too bad the entire game wasn't saved & preserved. I'm sure there are some still living who were kids back then in Detroit who remember this game and long so much for a championship. Same for the Browns.
4:46 The Lions have no MLB. Interesting. At 7:27 they have one. 5:58 The Browns have some pre snap movement in the secondary. I've never seen that from this era before.
The two cities, Cleveland and Detroit, have done about as well over the past 50 years or so as their respective pro football teams. Sports often reflects life.
@@steverhodesvideos6244 Ahh look at the little wokie, so cute and clueless. After you trash the place where you live please stay there and enjoy it, stop moving to our nice conservative areas, taking over the government and turning our places into crap holes too. Thank you!
Bobby Layne played from 1948 thru 1962. 1948 Chicago Bears 1949 New York Bulldogs 1950-58 Detroit Lions (2 games in 1958) 1958-62 Pittsburgh Steelers (10 games in 1958)
I just noticed this comment 11 years later lol. My grandfather was the defensive coach of the Lions through the 50's. I have a closet full of his old film reels.
This game should have been in Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. The 49ers blew a good lead the previous weekend in the then rare playoff game with the Lions and 49ers, having ended the season tied for first place in the Western Conference.
Tobin Rote was outstanding in this game. Rote is probably the greatest QB “no one has heard of”. Rote may not be HOF material but he was only the 2nd QB to lead two different teams to a league championship and the only, that I know of, to lead 3 different teams in 3 different leagues to the playoffs.
