09-07-2007
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shiny happy fan
Join Date: Apr 2004
Age: 49
Posts: 20,714
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Re: Happy Birthday Texans
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Originally Posted by TD
That's OK...I still don't know what a Brown is.
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In 1945, Arthur McBride brought the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) team to Cleveland. He ran a newspaper contest to name the team and offered the winner a $1,000 war bond. Many entries suggested the name "Browns" after Head Coach Paul Brown, but Coach Brown felt it wasn't "proper" to name the team after himself. Instead, the winning suggestion was the Panthers. However, there was a semi-pro team called the Cleveland Panthers in the '20s, and the owner still had the rights to the name. So, Coach Brown reluctantly agreed to name the team the Browns.
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