So, since 1950, when they joined the NFL, the Browns/Ravens franchise is:
629-478-11
6 league championships (4 NFL/2 Super Bowl)
That’s probably still behind, but in range of the Steelers franchise since 1950.
I know in some perverse re-writing of history the original Browns franchise and expansion Browns are wrongly lumped together as the Cleveland Browns for historical purposes, but the truth is the original Browns franchise has an unbroken history of continuous seasons from 1946 (and starting 1950 in the NFL) through 1995 as the Cleveland Browns and from 1996 to present as the relocated and renamed Baltimore Ravens.
The expansion Browns franchise is its own futile entity, manufactured from whole cloth. It did not exist prior to 1999 and cannot trace its pathetic lineage beyond 1999. Meanwhile, the original lineage of the franchise is still chugging along in Baltimore…thanks to Art Modell and Al Lerner…as one of the NFL’s premier franchises.
The good football fans in Cleveland have been deprived since 1996 of the team that hooked this town and region on football, through no fault of their own, and have been forced to pretend this current crap franchise that calls itself the Browns is somehow the same franchise of Graham, Motley, Brown, Warfield, Sipe, Kosar, etc, when the truth is they cannot trace any DNA back to Paul Brown’s team. That DNA flows through Baltimore since 1996.
May Modell and Lerner both rot in H3LL.