The Cleveland Browns were founded in 1946 and play in the North division of the American Football Conference.
Click Here to Buy Cleveland Browns Football TicketsAt the time a public contest was held to name the Browns, who were coached by Paul Brown. The most popular choice was first the Panthers, but Brown said no to it as it was already being used by another team. The Browns name was chosen despite it being the same as their coach, who stated that the team was being named after Joe Louis, the boxing champion who was known as the "Brown Bomber."
The team was in the All-America Football Conference at their start, and won all four championships including the 1948 season in which they completed the first perfect season outside the NFL. Cleveland largely supported the team right from the start, setting average attendance records of 57,000 per game in the first season.
The team won three NFL Championships during the 1950s, starting with the win in their first season with the league, 1950. The Browns' fourth NFL win came in 1964. Owner Art Modell planned to move the team to Baltimore in 1996. The team was put on hiatus until it was reborn in 1999. The fans are fiercely loyal.
Kevin Mack has returned to the Cleveland Browns. In what appears to be a shadowing of the career of his longtime comrade, Mack is now following the same post-football career path that Earnest Byner took. In what is good news for Browns fans, Mack has followed his buddy back home, and we shall surely be seeing some major improvements to the Cleveland roster and the way the team fares in the coming schedule. It is expected that this move will spark a demand for Cleveland Browns football tickets, as fans flock to the Cleveland Browns Stadium to see their old friend.
Mack and Byner have much in common. The two hail from the Southeast, having played their initial college football in the Carolinas and arriving anonymously in Cleveland one year apart. The two progressed rapidly at then Cleveland Municipal Stadium, and into NFL history, becoming only the third pair of players from the same team to each rush 1,000 yards in the same season, in 1985. The two guys were much-loved as motivators as well as players, and they forged a great respect from other Browns players during this momentous period. Consequently the two became synonymous with both Cleveland and with breaking records, a very positive association.
Byner left Cleveland in 2003 to take a position as a coach with the Washington Redskins, while Mack began March 2007 as assistant director of player programs for the Browns, where his skills off the field will benefit players enormously in such life paths as financial management and continuing education.
"When my buddy, Earnest, was doing this same type of thing in Baltimore, I could tell every time I talked to him that he was really enjoying himself in being able to influence young players," Mack said in his first week in his new job. "It got me to thinking that that was something I might want to do someday."
Sometime in early 2006, the Browns invited Mack down to the old place, suggesting there might be a possibility of a place for him in the beloved Browns organization. Mack sprang into the role enthusiastically, as this was exactly what he'd been looking for. Former Browns cornerback Ray Jackson had recently departed for a job at the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Jackson's position as assistant director of player programs needed filling. The man who'd been a legend off the pitch as well as on it, was quick to assert his interest and qualifications for the job, and the rest, as they say, is history. Come September, it will be history in the making. Mack is looking forward to employing his life skills as a guide, to help the young football stars of Cleveland negotiate the NFL schedule with heart and soul. The Kevin Mack fan club is surely about to re-form, and Cleveland Browns tickets are about to become hot property as everybody, old and young, wants to see this hero. Cleveland Browns Stadium is the place to be if you're a true Browns fan, to be in the shadow of Kevin Mack, as he, too, follows in the shadow of his old buddy, Earnest Byner.