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The 1957 NFL Championship Game was the 25th annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL), ... hosted the Cleveland Browns (9–2–1), ...
The 1957 Cleveland Browns season was the team's eighth season with the National Football League. They were 9–2–1 in the regular season and won the Eastern Conference title, but lost the championship game to the Detroit Lions , 59–14.
This conference championship game was played on December 22 at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco; down 27–7 early in the second half, Detroit rallied with 24 unanswered points to win 31–27. [ 1 ] The Lions moved on to host the Cleveland Browns on December 29 in the championship game , and won in a 59–14 rout at Briggs Stadium for their third ...
The Super Bowl — the NFL's championship game — pits the winner of the American Football Conference ... 1957: Detroit Lions. ... Cleveland Browns (AAFC) 1945: Cleveland Rams. 1944: Green Bay ...
Cleveland Browns rookie Jim Brown shakes off three tacklers and runs 29 yards for a touchdown in the 1957 NFL championship game. Brown led the league in rushing in all but one season in his career. With Otto Graham and most of the other original Browns in retirement, by 1957 the team was struggling to replenish its ranks. [73]
'The Detroit History Podcast' dove into the 1957 Detroit Lions' NFL championship team 5 years ago, when the team was mired in a rut. ... The Lions won that game, then blew out the Cleveland Browns ...
The Browns traded him to the Los Angeles Rams, but Zatkoff asked then-NFL commissioner Bert Bell to nix the deal and help him get to Detroit. The Lions beat the Browns for the 1957 championship.
The 1957 NFL season was the 38th regular season of the National Football League. After a 6-game preseason slate, the league's 12 teams played a 12-game league schedule — 72 regular season contests in all.