Classic Rewind: When Baltimore Vs. Cleveland Meant Colts Vs. Browns

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Published: September 24, 2009

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... will pick one NFL matchup and look through the history books to find an intriguing past meeting between the two teams.

We will recap the game and hopefully help reintroduce (or introduce for you younger readers) you to some of the greats (and in some cases not so greats) from the history of professional football.

Thanks to the decision in 1995 by Art Modell to move the beloved Cleveland Browns to Baltimore a decade after the Colts left in the middle of the night for Indianapolis, Cleveland and Baltimore are forever linked. More than a decade later, there is still resentment and anger among some long-time Cleveland fans.

This week, as the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns are preparing to do battle, we look at a game between the two predecessor franchises in those two cities. The Baltimore Colts and original Cleveland Browns had some classic confrontations during the 1950s and 1960s.

But their regular season meeting during the 1968 season is one of th...

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