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The Detroit Lions (8–4), winners of the Western Conference in a playoff the previous week, [7] hosted the Cleveland Browns (9–2–1), champions of the Eastern Conference. Detroit had won the regular season game 20–7 three weeks earlier on December 8, also at Briggs Stadium, but lost quarterback Bobby Layne with a broken right ankle late ...
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.
The Browns won a championship in their inaugural NFL season, as well as in the 1954, 1955, and 1964 seasons, and in a feat unequaled in any of the North American major professional sports, played in their league championship game in each of their first 10 years of existence, winning seven of those games.
Ford was 32 years old when the Lions won the national championship in 1957. ... beat the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship, at Tiger Stadium. ... bleachers had stripped off their shirts and ...
'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 ...
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]