Now that the lions are one win away from being in the Super Bowl I thought I’d take a peak at the last time they were there.

@super_og6914

6 ай бұрын

HAHAHHA SAME LOL

@andrewfrantz5502

2 ай бұрын

​@@super_og6914Bite your tongue 👅.

Many young fans look at the Browns and laugh, comparing them to the team of today and cannot imagine that they were any good at all, but know your rich history, Browns fans...This team was THE GOLD STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE in the 1950's in the NFL...They dominated the old AAFC and came into the NFL in 1950 and crushed the best teams the Old Guard had to offer.....Paul Brown was a coaching genius and was way ahead of his time.....Before Unitas and his Colts, before Lombardi's Packers, it was the BROWNS.....And the Detroit lions were excellent in their own right......

@70elcamino.

7 жыл бұрын

browns curse on this team should have never made him create the Bengals H died not lifting the curse

@keithrissolo7437

7 жыл бұрын

The curse on the Browns organization is stupidity...They have made bad coaching decisions, a revolving door of upper management, no identity, hell they have even changed their once great uniforms to the crapp they are wearing now...I mean "BROWNS", on the pants legs??? This is nonsense....The uniforms were never broke, the way the team has been run has been...YOU MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK....This team can be something if they got the right people and stop the revolving door stuff, management, coaches, players, always switched, always new systems, and the team keeps being dreadful.....

@dominicleon2662

7 жыл бұрын

keith rissolo EXACTLY AND IM NOT SUPER OLD BUT I KNOW THEY WERE AN AMAZING TEAM?!!

@markoakes8620

6 жыл бұрын

Everything about today's Cleveland browns, like their new designer uniforms, are bad. I will take nothing seriously from its management. The team is a joke!

@graciemaemarie11jones16

5 жыл бұрын

paul brown never was the same after this brutal beating.....

1957 marked the 25th anniversary of the NFL's first championship playoff game ever in 1932, in which the Chicago Bears led by super-stars Red Grange and power fullback Bronko Nagurski defeated the Portsmouth Spartans (now known as the Detroit Lions).

@davidcouch6514

Ай бұрын

1932 Game moved indoors to an 80 yard field with special rules.

1957 was also Jim Brown's rookie year, as he would finish the season by earning him the league's all rookie honours.

@lynnieadams3070

4 жыл бұрын

Jennifer you are cool. I like a chick that knows her stuff. Thanks for the history lesson. 😉

@andrewsucksatvideos4482

Жыл бұрын

RIP good browns and Lions 1946-1965

The Lions' last postseason win until the 1991 NFC Divisional Playoffs. Also, the last time they have won multiple playoff games in the same postseason until 2023.

''Cleveland is far from being a stranger to championship play!'' the before times

imagine these two teams dominated the 50's and yet niether has made the superbowl

@derrickthompson4146

3 жыл бұрын

Better yet, imagine Detroit vs. Cleveland in SUPER BOWL LV

@gutsdw

3 жыл бұрын

Ontario lake teams have the same problems, bad ownership and too conservative to be relevant for 70 years

@derrickthompson4146

3 жыл бұрын

@@gutsdw not y'all too?

@derrickthompson4146

3 жыл бұрын

Sad ain't it

@gutsdw

3 жыл бұрын

Derrick Thompson yeah

It's ironic that these two teams, up to the early 60's, played in so many world championship football games, and yet neither ever played in the Super Bowl.

I love it! They have hay and straw on the sidelines to keep the players feet warm.

Good for the Lions.... Looks like they'll be winning championships for decades to come.

My wife's grandfather was at this game!! We talk about it when we are bummed out about todays Lions...who knows this could be our year!! #OnePride

@Mediamessengers

3 жыл бұрын

@vidaa82 gotta happen sooner or later right?

@Mediamessengers

3 жыл бұрын

@vidaa82 hey the Cubs won and they were bad for 100 years!! Why not us! 🏆

@loydbruceleewouldbescary2637

Жыл бұрын

My dad dr robery kline ❤️ 1957 world champion detroit lions

@KB-300

Жыл бұрын

We played better this year

@plumbr13

5 ай бұрын

You have multiple wives, all with the same grandfather?

Tobin Rote died in the hospital room right next to me in Saginaw, MI in June of 2000.

Interesting fact on Tobin Rote, the Lions QB : he also won an AFL title in 1963 with the San Diego Chargers, beating the Boston patriots 51-10.

@Matthew-qy7op

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Zuko Rote was a bit of John Elway and Marcus Mariota of his time. I can't remember why Green Bay traded him to Detroit, but I wonder what Lombardi could have done with him had he stayed.

@jeremythompson9122

4 жыл бұрын

Tobin Rote is the only QB ever to win both an AFL and an NFL Championship. But Otto Graham won 4 AAFC Championships and 3 NFL Championships

Man, this must be old because the Lions are playing the Browns in the NFL Championship game, because they hadn’t even invented the Super Bowl yet. Can you even imagine a Super Bowl with these two teams? It would actually be kind of cool.

My late father would ❤ this video of Detroit lions NFL championship Bobby Layne detroit lion quarterback

Growing up in the 70s, the voices of Chris Schenkel, Curt Gowdy, Jack Whitaker and Pat Summerall were part of the soundtrack of my youth. To me, they were THE voices of pro football.

Thank you for posting such a great memory of the past. To bad the Lions of today can't live up to such a great past.

I remember this game. I was a young juggalo at the time.

It’s 65 years later and the Lions have only won one (1) playoff game since this one

@leakyycauldronn1092

5 ай бұрын

👀

@mach6893

3 ай бұрын

Make that 3. The Lions won more playoff games during the 2023-24 postseason than they have won in the previous 65 years.

@michaelleroy9281

24 күн бұрын

Make that 3

65 years since winning a championship! Holy shyte.

Awesome Video! Thanks for Posting!

If this happens in a Super Bowl, you know the Apocalypse is NEAR! 🤣🤣🤣

@TheBuckeyeHistoryGuy1776

6 ай бұрын

Though those brownies are my team, I’ve been saying the same thing. Seems like after every win, something bad goes on in the world……. We all have to thank a special dead gorilla for this moment

@mach6893

4 ай бұрын

It almost happened.

It's awesome to see the Lions 🦁 in a championship game

I love this! Thanks for posting. George Wilson was the best coach the Lions ever had.

@dicktracy762

Жыл бұрын

Buddy Parker was good. Won a coupla championships over Browns.

@juggalofred1533

Жыл бұрын

I don't know, Matt Patricia was pretty good too

It’s crazy how the teams that don’t have a Super Bowl now days were great before the Super Bowl was a thing

@Rickman897

4 ай бұрын

They were basically the Chiefs & Patriots of the 1950s.

With Jim Brown then without him. He was every bit as important as Tom Brady maybe more important.

Thank you Detroit Lions for making me a life long Giants fan, I was 7 in 1957 and all my cousins, uncles and friends were Browns fans so of course I was too. However after the Browns got clobbered in the NFL Championship game, like a typical 7 year old, I was thru with the Browns. Here in Rochester we had 2 TV stations back then and every week the Browns were on one station and the Giants on the other. I was then the one and only Giants fan around. Since the Giants won the the NFL east in 1958 by beating the Browns in the final game of the year to force a one game play off and of coarse the Giants beat them again, with Frank Gifford ( my boy hood hero) throwing a halfback option pass for the games only TD. All my uncles have passed away but over the years my cousin and friends have switched to the Buffalo Balls and you know how that turned out :-) and I am still a 100% Giants fan!

No touchdown celebrations! How refreshing

These NFL players from the 1950's just simply play for the love of the game.

@charleswoodhouse4754

4 жыл бұрын

They would have payed to play!!

@vgr112261

3 жыл бұрын

They did get paid.

@jfridy

3 жыл бұрын

@@vgr112261 True, but this was the era when most players had off season jobs to pay the bills, only stars could just play football as a job.

@lenpey

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Jerry Kramer and one of the other Lombardi Packers used to run a steak restaurant in Wisconsin to make ends meet. Gabriel and Olson used to own a car dealership in L.A. Nowadays, pro athletes sit back and wait for corporations to come along and offer them millions in stock deals or whatever.

@jfridy

3 жыл бұрын

@@lenpey That's for stars. The average linemen or 2nd string player makes a few hundred thousand a year, which is really good if you can keep it. But those guys often are only playing for less than 5 years, and end up with long term injuries.

Its kinda ironic that the best two teams of the decade prior to the Super Bowl era...the Browns and Lions... are the only two teams to never appear in a Super Bowl besides the Jaguars(EST.1995)and Texans(EST. 2002). Younger football fans laugh at the Browns and Lions but they were once the best in the business. They each won 3 NFL Championship Games in the 50's. The Browns appeared 7 times in the title game and the Lions made 4 appearances in the 50's. They played each other 4 times in the NFL Championship with the Lions winning 3 of them. The Browns other 3 appearances were against the Rams...the team that left Cleveland for Los Angeles shortly after winning the 1945 NFL Championship. The Browns won 2 out of their 3 Championship games against the Rams. The Browns went to the NFL Championship Game in 7 out of their first 8 years in the NFL...that is INSANE. They also won the league championship all 4 years of the old AAFC(1946-49)before joining the NFL in 1950 along with 2 other AAFC teams...the 49ers and the Baltimore Colts. The Colts ended up winning back to back NFL Championships in 1958-59. So that means out of 10 NFL Championship Games in the 1950's there was a team from the AAFC in 9 of them. The only exception was 1956 when the Giants beat the Bears 47-7 in Yankee Stadium in the Championship Game. The Browns also won the 1964 NFL Championship 27-0 against the Baltimore Colts. They appeared in the 1965 and 68 Championship Games also but lost both...first to Lombardi's Packers and then to Don Shula's Colts. The Lions have won one playoff game(1991 vs. Dallas) since their win in the 1957 NFL Championship Game. They've been cursed ever since they traded HOF QB Bobby Layne to Pittsburgh

@mach6893

4 жыл бұрын

The real curse on the Detroit Lions is the Ford Family.

@jimanderson7648

3 жыл бұрын

@@mach6893 they care more about how much money they can make instead of the team

i actually prefer these old hard nosed NFL championship games compared to the glitzly super bowls played in domes or in warm weather

@jeremythompson9122

4 жыл бұрын

So do I. All NFL stadiums should be open air stadiums with a natural grass field. It might cut down on the injuries too. I hate dome stadiums. Teams like Minnesota and Detroit should've never moved indoors. Neither one has won anything since they moved indoors

@laotse_

5 ай бұрын

Well said. Plus NFL football should be played in the natural elements. @@jeremythompson9122

They played a hell of a game against each other though!!

Tobin Rote is the only quarterback to win an NFL and AFL Championship. The 57' Championship with the Lions, as seen here. And in 63' with the Chargers. Ironically, it was the last time either team won a championship.

@samw.8734

6 жыл бұрын

J H, fuck you lol

Interesting that they played each other twice in pre-season.

Tobin Rote was outstanding in this game. Rote is probably the greatest QB “no one has heard of”. Rote may not be HOF material but he was only the 2nd QB to lead two different teams to a league championship and the only, that I know of, to lead 3 different teams in 3 different leagues to the playoffs.

It's amazing that virtually the whole field is dirt. How did the grass ever grow back in time for the baseball season? I also like the hay in the bech area to soak up the mud. What an inovation. It's good to see a football game where they actually get their uniforms dirty.

@Verozzani idk if they will they havent been looking to good.

Everyone talking ab jim brown. This was the last time detroit won a championship, imagine todays lions beating jim brown smh crazy

this looks like one of those old newsreels they used to play before movies back in the 40s and 50s

No Otto Graham, no Bobby Layne. Never realized that before. Knew it was Jim Brown's rookie year. Amazingly, Jim Brown's only Championship victory was in 1964.

@jms1963

4 жыл бұрын

I also forgot that John Henry Johnson was with Detroit that year.

I remember my grandfather and I watching the game

rookie of the year Jim Brown!!

@jms1963

4 жыл бұрын

Greatest running back of all-time, Jim Brown!!

You have a better chance of winning the lottery then seeing the Lions vs Browns in a Superbowl

@tommybrown9534

Жыл бұрын

Lol I was thinking the same.. both of them have been the absolute worst teams in the NFL in recent history. And if I remember correctly, the Lions are the only team across all 4 main sports (NFL, NHL, NBA and MLB) to have a winless season.

@mach6893

3 ай бұрын

The Lions have a chance to appear in a Super Bowl. I don't know about the Browns though.

@pkidtim1 Did you get his aoutograph?

@italstallion06 And their fancy halftime shows. And their million sponsors. And their endless commercials on television. The NFL today is nothing more than a money racket full of pampered players thanks to an overly safe commission. The NFL in the 50's was far more raw and just plain tougher.

@steverhodesvideos6244

2 жыл бұрын

The players often had to work at other jobs to make ends meet...

I’m in diapers on this, the last Sunday of 1957. The Lions have never won a championship since. Tobin Rote would later lead the San Diego Chargers to the 1963 AFL title making him the only man to win titles in two different leagues

Wow. It's been a long time since the Lions were a championship contender.

The two cities, Cleveland and Detroit, have done about as well over the past 50 years or so as their respective pro football teams. Sports often reflects life.

@webb12344

3 жыл бұрын

It reflects the fact that whitey tooks his money and jobs and moved out!

@Stacie45

3 жыл бұрын

@@webb12344 Democrat politicians hard at work, doing their thing.

@steverhodesvideos6244

2 жыл бұрын

Racism is alive and well and thriving on social media. Thanks, KZread!

@Stacie45

2 жыл бұрын

@@steverhodesvideos6244 Ahh look at the little wokie, so cute and clueless. After you trash the place where you live please stay there and enjoy it, stop moving to our nice conservative areas, taking over the government and turning our places into crap holes too. Thank you!

@mach6893

4 ай бұрын

The teams are reflecting the owners.

Tobin Rote and George Wilson, who later on became American Football League legends.

@jeremythompson9122

4 жыл бұрын

George Wilson wasn't what I'd call an AFL legend. He coached the Dolphins from 1966-69 and never had a single winning season. Don Shula took over in 1970

@lloydkline6946

3 жыл бұрын

Detroit lions glory days , Bobby Layne,was hurt NFL championship 1957

The Browns were a much better team than they showed on this day.....They were 9-2-1 in the regular season....But the Lions had built up a lot of momentum going into this one, and in this level, games can get away from a team and you get a huge lopsided score as a result....Back in those days both teams were the powerhouses of the 1950's...

@johnlittle234

Жыл бұрын

Memories brought back I was 9 yrs old watching that game on T. V.

Surprise! Surprise! The Lion's were in their first championship 1957 vs.the Browns

4:46 The Lions have no MLB. Interesting. At 7:27 they have one. 5:58 The Browns have some pre snap movement in the secondary. I've never seen that from this era before.

Why wasn't the 1958 NFL title game (Giants-Colts) also filmed in color??

@jeremythompson9122

4 жыл бұрын

I've actually seen a version of that game in color

neither the Lions nor Cleveland have ever been to the Super Bowl unless you count the Baltimore Ravens nee Browns.

4:45 first carry

Detroit's destruction of Cleveland was theirrevenge for 1954, when Otto Graham played the game of his life.

Earl Gillespie-Milwaukee Braves announcer. How key!

Tobin Rote will always be the only QB to win both an NFL and an AFL title game.

Now I know what barrys father was talking about when he brought up Jim brown so much

Guess I can see the Lions win a championship in my lifetime.

@mach6893

3 ай бұрын

You just saw them won a division championship.

6:58 23/106 kick return

Can you imagine the Lions and Browns playing each other in a Super Bowl? Me neither.

Notice the condition of the field.

@mrjim271 same here, i want to see football, not some mini-concert, i'd rather watch a full halftime analysis than sit through the shows

Too bad the entire game wasn't saved & preserved. I'm sure there are some still living who were kids back then in Detroit who remember this game and long so much for a championship. Same for the Browns.

When was Bobby lane in the league an What yrs did he play for the lions.?? Any1 Know..

@dantheman5745

5 жыл бұрын

Bobby Layne played from 1948 thru 1962. 1948 Chicago Bears 1949 New York Bulldogs 1950-58 Detroit Lions (2 games in 1958) 1958-62 Pittsburgh Steelers (10 games in 1958)

@timothyantoine914

4 жыл бұрын

Bobby Lane was on the Lions in 57 , was hurt and Rote finished the season . The Lions traded Layne and the curse began in 1958 .

These two teams will probably be competing for years.

I love old films of American football and baseball. They make me think of simpler, happier, less troubled times, when Uncle Sam protected and led the free world. God bless America. (I'm English, BTW.)

4:26

Wow, that is pretty cool. Where'd you get this? Cleveland Public Library used to have these games on VHS.

@VolBrian

3 жыл бұрын

I just noticed this comment 11 years later lol. My grandfather was the defensive coach of the Lions through the 50's. I have a closet full of his old film reels.

That's the 1st time NFL in the 50s in color

To think these two teams lost every game in 2008 & 2017 respectively.

Amazing the two best teams of 50s now the perennial worst of the NFL.

Jim Brown. Wow

The lions last championship appearance and championship win lol

No concussion protocol back then!!

This game should have been in Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. The 49ers blew a good lead the previous weekend in the then rare playoff game with the Lions and 49ers, having ended the season tied for first place in the Western Conference.

Ironies of ironies...the Browns and Lions playing for the World Championship. Who knows if or when that will ever happen again.

@super_og6914

6 ай бұрын

Lions are one game away from going back but don’t know about the browns 😂

MY LIONS WERE CONSISTENTLY GOOD IN THOSE TIMES (I WAS 9 THAT YEAR). WE "SAW" A 23 INNING GAME AT BRIGGS, I WAS 6, I FELL ASLEEP OF COURSE.

Briggs Stadium later became known as Tiger Stadium.

@lloydkline6946

3 жыл бұрын

That tiger stadium NFL championship 1957. Bobby Layne

😮

The great Tobin Rote, first cousin of the great Kyle Rote. SMU running back and father of the great Kyle Rote Jr. Dallas Tornado soccer great. Just ask the great Norm Hitzges, the Hit Man, Mr 123, who call those great soccer matches back before anybody cared about soccer. You're welcome.

7:21 9/69

4:45 6/69

HAHAAHAAH YYESSS LETSGOUOOIOOO!??! GO BROWNS THEY WERE GOOD EVERYBODY MISSES THERE AMAZING TIME!?'?!?! AWESOME COOL VIDEO GREAT LOVE IT NICE JOB?!?

The last championship the Lions have 🏆 won

@tommybrown9534

Жыл бұрын

Yup.. and the last time either of them was in the championship game

@Mark-xl1ze

11 ай бұрын

​@@tommybrown9534Not true for the Browns. They were in the championship games in '64 and '65.

53 years and counting...

@raoiii8352

4 жыл бұрын

63

@matthewmartin5629

Жыл бұрын

65

@tonyyost331

9 ай бұрын

66

yeah, but they will return.

Notice no face masks just a bar across. The names John Henry Johnson, Tobin Rote

@FrsBigeasy Thanks for ruining it for me!! (just kidding)

Lmao the lions will never see this again

@mach6893

4 жыл бұрын

Oh they will. Just not under the Ford Family.

@juandavila4534

3 жыл бұрын

You are now a Ram

@memecity736

3 жыл бұрын

@@juandavila4534 time to win

@juandavila4534

3 жыл бұрын

@@memecity736 yep. Better chance to win in LA than Detroit

No fat slobs! What happened?

browns qb is terrible lol

@lucycollins4835

Жыл бұрын

Tommy O'Connell started at quarterback for Cleveland in this game. Rookie Milt Plum started at QB for most of the second half of the regular season because O'Connell had an injured ankle. About 3 days before the championship game, Plum, playing catch with another player, popped his hamstring. The Browns decided to go with O'Connell for the title game. O'Connell clearly wasn't ready after missing so much time and threw a pick 6. He also had another pass intercepted giving Detroit the ball on about Cleveland's 19 yard line that was quickly turned into 6 points for the Lions. Then there was a fumbled kickoff return by Cleveland rookie Milt Campbell that also was turned into another Detroit TD. Plum started the second half for the Browns at QB, but did not fare much better. Of course, the game was really over at the half with Detroit leading 31 to 7. The Lions kept it up, wanting revenge for their 56 to 10 loss at the hands of the Browns in the 1954 title game. Also, there was the fake field goal attempt by Detroit in the first half when holder Rote instead passed for another touchdown. The final score was 59 to 14 in favor of the Lions.

The Lions beat the brown 2x in the championship game.

@phoggknight6714

5 ай бұрын

Three times: 1952, 1953, and 1957. They lost to the Browns in 1954.