CLEVELAND, Ohio — Thanks to a vote of NFL owners at the league’s annual meeting this week, the [Browns](https://www.cleveland.com/browns/) now own eight championships recognized by the NFL, which is more than the six titles division rival Pittsburgh Steelers own.
If you’re confused, due to the Browns having yet to win a Super Bowl, don’t worry.
The NFL announced it will count statistics from the All-America Football Conference, toward the NFL’s official records.
The AAFC lasted 1946-49, and was an established competitor to the NFL. The Browns’ first season was 1946, and though the AAFC didn’t last past four seasons, Cleveland ruled the league during its existence.
Coached by franchise co-founder Paul Brown, the Browns compiled an AAFC record of 47-4-3, and won the AAFC championship in all four seasons. Twice they beat the New York Yankees (1946, 1947) before defeating the Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers in the league’s final two seasons.
Those AAFC titles combined with the Browns’ four NFL titles (1950, 1954, 1955, 1964) give them eight championships recognized by NFL history.
Also, Brown now has 47 regular season wins and nine postseason wins added to his coaching record. That moves him into seventh place in NFL history with 222 overall wins.
Cleveland was the AAFC’s headliner.
So much so that the league’s final game before merging with the NFL was the AAFC All-Star game, but between the Browns and an All-Star team complied of players from the six other teams.
Seven of Cleveland’s players along with Brown, would become members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a few of these players will benefit from the AAFC being added to the NFL’s official record books.
There’s quarterback Otto Graham, who won AAFC MVP in 1947. He currently sits 95th all time in career passing yards (23,584), and 10,085 of those yards came from his time in the AAFC.
Browns fullback Marion Motley’s yards per carry, now including AAFC seasons, leads all running backs with an average of 5.7. Only quarterbacks Michael Vick, Randall Cunningham and Lamar Jackson are ahead of him. In career yards he’s tied for 176th (4,720), and 3,024 of those came from his AAFC days.
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