CLEVELAND, Ohio -- To remember when the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions were good at the same time, you would need a black-and-white television set, the only type they made in the 1950s, with an antenna and rabbit ears; a network called Dumont; a swaggering quarterback for Detroit named Bobby Layne; a perfect facilitator of visionary coach Paul Brown's schemes named Otto Graham; and a belief that the two cities would forever control pro football the way Michigan and Ohio State would come to dominate the college game.
Well, uh, things have changed.
Detroit's three victories in the NFL Championship Game over Cleveland in four tries, the last 60 years ago in 1957, are a very long time ago.