“Paying for the Sins of Art Modell to This Day”: Browns Lifelong Struggles Perfectly Summed Up by Cleveland Reporter

“Paying for the Sins of Art Modell to This Day”: Browns Lifelong Struggles Perfectly Summed Up by Cleveland Reporter

The Cleveland Browns were once a winning team, having won four AAFC championships and three more NFL championships by 1955. They made the playoffs every single year the first decade of their existence – the only team to ever do so. Then Art Modell took over the franchise in 1961, and everything started to go South(east). On BIGPLAY Cleveland, Browns reporter Nick Pedone noted that all the disasters Cleveland’s football has gone through stem from…

Analyst Has Theory On Why Browns Have Struggled Since 1999

(Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)   The Cleveland Browns have spent the better part of 3 decades searching for sustained success, and the explanations for that struggle have ranged from poor draft decisions to chaotic ownership changes to simple bad luck. But Nick Pedone of BIGPLAY Sports Network offered a different theory that traces the franchise’s struggles all the way back to the circumstances surrounding the team’s return in 1999, and hi…