Cleveland Browns...YAY!!

Mortimer · #1 02-04-2008, 12:21 PM

Bidster;

Fine work...I just wish they would change their name.

Tried looking for A Rutigliano Super Bowl Team...great song...but to no avail. And I wish I could find the complete fight song with the CORRECT words...but I can't .

I'll bet MainCourse can't name the qb and starting backfield for the Browns' very first regular pro game......unless he tires looking it up,but don't think it's there anyway.

horseofcourse · #2 02-04-2008, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Mortimer

Bidster;

Fine work...I just wish they would change their name.

Tried looking for A Rutigliano Super Bowl Team...great song...but to no avail. And I wish I could find the complete fight song with the CORRECT words...but I can't .

I'll bet MainCourse can't name the qb and starting backfield for the Browns' very first regular pro game......unless he tires looking it up,but don't think it's there anyway.

I would guess off hand Cliff Lewis was the quarterback and Marion Motley at fullback. I'm not sure if Lavelli or Speedie were backs or receivers but they played tons of funky formations back then. They were the 3 skill people that mattered back then...(they were receivers, so I guess I can't name the entire starting backfield...but I'm quite certain on Lewis and pretty sure on Motley...the other running back...not sure. ) Otto Graham took over at qb very quickly however his rookie year.

horseofcourse · #3 02-04-2008, 05:20 PM

It's the internets, morty, you can find anything. I missed Edgar Jones and Don Greenwood as their starting halfbacks most of the year. So I guess they started that first game. I did know their ends, qb and fb however. So I guess I get a 67 percent.

The Bid · #4 02-04-2008, 06:37 PM

Cliff Lewis at qb and backfield mates were Don Greenwood,Edgar Special Delivery Jones and Gene Fekete. Fekete also holds ,to this idea, Ohio States record for the longest run from scrimmage....88 yards.

Can give the reference upon request

horseofcourse · #5 02-04-2008, 06:55 PM

Where was MOtley...I know he was with them their first year and piled up big yards?? Or was it an Otto Graham type thing where they just started other guys the first game then went with the big boys after that??

The Bid · #6 02-04-2008, 07:02 PM

Let me check and see if I can answer that question. I have a bomb taped to my chest.

The Bid · #7 02-04-2008, 08:47 PM

I have been authorized to ask this question

Reference upon request

Name the years Cleveland won the pro fb world title...there are 10.