Are we not talking about NFL here? yeah Cleveland is a great AFL team, but not NFL. and as Jimbo said I only follow what I know since I have watched ( I am 26) but let me put it to you this way, just because you have great players in the hall of fame, and in your history dosent mean you are a great team or storied franchise or deserve Television rights....also your Browns backers, I know a couple of them and the only reason they do it is to get drunk, its another excuse to go to a bar and get loud...yeah they like the team, but they are more there for the beer......also I will say this to set the record straight! I love the Cleveland Browns they are my favorite team....and when they come back let me know, because to me the browns Died when they moved to baltimore...I am talking SMASH MOUTH no holds barred football, not this crap they have in there now, yeah Jamal Lewis is smash mouth, but no one else, I just cant root for them.
Stu, I am 26 also, but "storied" often refers to the past. As long as they donned the name "Browns" and wore the traditional Brown and Orange, I will consider all statistics.
The Brown's were in the AAFC prior to 1950 and the NFL beginning in 1950. The AAFC dissolved because of the Brown's dominance. Once they joined the NFL, they won the Championship the 1st year and 4 all together. Again, the "NFL" didn't begin in 1967 (the first year of the Super Bowl).
I'll leave you with this famous quote from Sophia Loren....
“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.”