1946 AAFC season
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The 1946 AAFC season was the first season of the All-America Football Conference, a new professional league established to challenge the market dominance of the established National Football League. T
Radio and film star Don Ameche was the co-owner of the AAFC's Los Angeles franchise, the Los Angeles Dons.
In addition to his role shattering the color barrier, powerful Cleveland fullback and linebacker Marion Motley was the AAFC's first black star.
Cleveland Browns
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The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. The Browns compete in the National Football League as a member of the American Football Conference North division. Th
1946 AAFC season
…of the color line in the ranks of professional American football, when black athletes Marion Motley and Bill Willis took to the field for the AAFC's Cleveland Browns on September 9, 1946. Both of these stars would later be voted to membership in the Professional Football Hall of Fame. In September 1944, Arch Ward…
The Browns were named after original head coach Paul Brown.
Senior member of the owning family, Jimmy Haslam
EVP of football operations/GM Andrew Berry
Head coach Todd Monken