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NFL rules against ‘48 Browns
In case you were waiting breathlessly, the NFL has ruled that the 1948 Browns, who went 15-0 in the old All-America Football Conference, will not be finding their way into the official records.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown had petitioned the NFL to include the records from the Browns’ four championship seasons in the AAFC from 1946-49.
The ‘72 Dolphins thus remain the only sanctioned undefeated team in NFL history.
Why can’t the Browns be included? Well, the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer quoted an NFL spokeman who said that going undefeated and untied was “a sterling achievement,” but “it was not achieved in the NFL nor against NFL teams, nor in a league which became in its entirety part of the NFL.
“As such, our historians believe it is appropriate that it not be part of the official NFL records.”
Sounds fairly logical.
Nice try by Senator Brown, who now can go back to worrying about the mortgage crisis or whatever else he’s supposed to be doing in Washington.
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