After dominating the All-America Football Conference from 1946-1949, the Cleveland Browns headed to the NFL. Once there, they continued to churn out championships as they won NFL titles in 1950, 1954, 1955, and 1964 — all of which were pre-Super Bowl championships. Since those days, it’s been a long run of “maybe next year’s” as the Browns remain one of four teams to never even play in the Super Bowl and one of 12 to never win it.
That doesn’t mean some of our favorite members of the orange and brown haven’t gone on to taste success.