But more than seven decades ago, Brownie was the boyish face of pro football's most dominant dynasty. In another fan poll via 850 ESPN Cleveland, more than 5% of voters actually blamed Brownie for the defeat.īrownie might be 0-1 as Cleveland's midfield logo heading into Thursday night's clash with the Pittsburgh Steelers (8:15 p.m. With 1:55 to play, the New York Jets scored a 66-yard touchdown, recovered an onside kick, then scored another touchdown to stun the Browns, 31-30. Cleveland became the first team in 21 years to blow a 13-point lead in the final two minutes. One of the most inexplicable losses in franchise history sullied Brownie's grandiloquent midfield debut on Sunday.

'I think we're a little bit confused on what route we want to go creatively.' I mean, we're the Dawg Pound, but we've got an elf? But I've always been more of a fan of the dog. 'I don't know what to think about it,' Cleveland pass-rusher Myles Garrett said. The people have spoken 🏟 /TYOBd59So8- Cleveland Browns September 13, 2022Īnd if you're bemused about Brownie's existence as an NFL mascot, well, you're not alone. The latest caricature of Brownie spans the 45-yard lines horizontally, exceeds the hashmarks vertically, and can be easily spotted from airplanes passing overhead. Topping a preseason online fan vote, Brownie has returned as the team's midfield logo, an oversized rendition of his original mysterious appearance preceding Cleveland's inaugural season in 1946. 'My first official act as owner of the Browns,' Modell told newspaper reporters at the time, 'will be to get rid of that little f-er.' Yet one fact is certain: It was Art Modell who put the elf on the shelf after buying the team in 1961. CLEVELAND - Nobody, at least still living, knows for sure how Brownie the Elf came to be the first official mascot of the Cleveland Browns some 76 years ago.

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