December 27, 1964

• BRF

  

  Browns win the NFL Championship!
  
  27-0
  
  Little BRF was huddled around his portable radio listening to 3 TD passes from Frank Ryan to Gary Collins, with 2 Lou Groza field goals, to boot!
  
  
  
  So long ago.
• BRF

  

  1964 Cleveland Browns
  
  
  
  Head Coach: Blanton Collier
  
  To be listed, a player must have played at least one game for the team during this season.
  
  DB/RB Walter Beach
  DB Larry Benz
  LB Ed Bettridge
  TE/LB/DE Johnny Brewer
  FB * Jim Brown
  T John Brown
  DT Mike Bundra
  DB Lowell Caylor
  T/DT/DE/HC Monte Clark
  WR/P Gary Collins
  LB Vince Costello
  DB Ross Fichtner
  LB Galen Fiss
  DB Bobby Franklin
  DT/DE/T Bob Gain
  DE/C/T Bill Glass
  RB/FB Ernie Green
  T/DT/K * Lou Groza
  G Gene Hickerson
  LB/DE Jim Houston
  WR Tom Hutchinson
  DT Jim Kanicki
  RB * Leroy Kelly
  LB Mike Lucci
  WR Clifton McNeil
  G/T Dale Memmelaar
  DT/HC Dick Modzelewski
  C/G/DE John Morrow
  QB Jim Ninowski
  DT Frank Parker
  DB Bernie Parrish
  DB Dave Raimey
  WR Walter Roberts
  QB Frank Ryan
  FB/RB Charlie Scales
  T/G/DE Dick Schafrath
  LB Stan Sczurek
  T Roger Shoals
  WR * Paul Warfield
  DE/HC Paul Wiggin
  LB/DE Sid Williams
  G John Wooten
• iclfan2

  

  I can't wait for the day of a Super Bowl appearance.
• Gardens35

  p.s. Beat the Baltimore Colts.
• BRF

  

  iclfan2 wrote: I can't wait for the day of a Super Bowl appearance.

  We been waitin' a LONG time, brother!
  
  I'm happy that there haven't been any "hater" responses to this thread......yet!
• trackandccrunner

  Who cares everyone knows real football didnt start until the 1966-1967 season.
  
  BRF you asked for it
• BRF

  

  trackandccrunner wrote:
  
  BRF you asked for it

  It was good while it lasted!
  
  The Browns are going to win their third straight game on this 45th Anniversary!
• trackandccrunner

  Im not a hater though but I figured I'd just be the first to say what someone else would haha.
• Ironman92

  

  It's good you remember that. Sad you couldn't see it....but radio can keep you on the edge of your seat as well with good radio guys.
• BRF

  

  trackandccrunner wrote: Im not a hater though but I figured I'd just be the first to say what someone else would haha.

  You are funny!
  
  Ironman92: Interesting that you say that about the radio. To this day, I prefer to listen to games on the radio. I just like it.
  
  Your comment made me do a little research as to who was the Brown's radio announcer that day.
  
  Gib Shanley.
• equus

  Thanks for bringing up my birthday. I have always said I am the reason the Browns are cursed. I was born the day of their last NFL Championship, and I hope they win another before I make my exit. If not, then I hope it is in another 55-60 years...
• BRF

  

  Happy Birthday, equus................the horseman!
  
  YOU have the power to put your Karma to work and get us there!
• Mr. 300

  

  Gib Shanley was the bomb.
• Footwedge

  I was a witness!!.
• HitsRus

  

  It was a joy in a month of sadness for me. My mother had passed just 10 days earlier after an extended illness. My father was taking some time away. I watched the game in Miami at the airport while we waited for a flight.
• royal_k

  

  Jim Brown, Ernie Green, and Leroy Kelly at RB.....man that team was LOADED!!
• BRF

  

  Footwedge wrote: I was a witness!!.

  Here's to you, Footwedge!
  
  
• HitsRus

  

  Ryan to Collins!
• BRF

  

  Thanks for all the great posts and memories, fellow FreeHuddlers!
  
  HitsRus: I am amazed that you were able to "watch" the game back in the day!
• HitsRus

  

  It was televised in Miami...black and white.
• BRF

  

  Any of you old guys remember this kind of angle from the old Muni Stadium?
  
  
• BRF

  

  Some more pics for old times sake:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• BRF

  

  And a couple more:
  
  
  
  
• HitsRus

  

  
• royal_k

  

  can't see your pictures guys.