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Browns Ambush Steelers for First Playoff Win Since 1994

Cleveland Browns fans had waited 18 years to watch their team play in a postseason game, enduring 16 losing seasons and even a winless 2017 campaign in the process.

In Sunday's wild-card round game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, they wouldn't have to wait long before the celebration began.

The Browns scored a defensive touchdown on the first play from scrimmage and put up 28 points in the first quarter en route to a 48-37 win over the Steelers, earning their first playoff win since 1994.

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Cleveland's most recent postseason victory—a 20-13 win over the New England Patriots in the wild-card round—came just one year before the franchise relocated to Baltimore.