Welcome to Super Bowl Sunday, which marks the final game of the NFL’s 2025 season.
Today’s game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New Englands Patriots is the 60th Super Bowl to be played, and it is also the 60th consecutive year that the Cleveland Browns have opted out of participating in the game.
That does not mean the trophy case is empty at team headquarters in Berea, of course, because despite what fans of teams like the Pittsburgh Steelers would have everyone believe, the NFL did exist and
play crown league champions prior to the Super Bowl era.
In fact, the very first NFL champion was the Akron Pros in 1920!
The Browns have eight championship seasons to the name – four in the All-American Football Conference and four in the NFL – which puts them in a tie with the New York Giants for the third-most among the 32 teams currently in the league. For those wondering, the Green Bay Packers are first with 13 championships, while the Chicago Bears are No. 2 with nine titles.
And for those keeping score at home, if the Patriots win today it would be their seventh title, moving them into sole position of fourth place. As for the Seahawks, a win would be the franchise’s second title, moving them into a tie with the Miami Dolphins, the Cardinals (whose last championship game in 1947 while they were still in Chicago), Canton Bulldogs, Baltimore Ravnes, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Someday, perhaps, the Browns will get their act together and be an active participant in Super Bowl Sunday. Until then, let’s kick off the day with the latest edition of the Sunday Dawg Chow.
Dawgs By Nature
- Browns HC Todd Monken stays in-house for WR coach (Thomas Moore) – Cleveland hoping tight ends coach Christian Jones can fix an ailing wide receiver room as the new position coach.
- Browns HC Todd Monken adding another O-line coach to his staff (Thomas Moore) – Cleveland is reportedly hiring Bobby Johnson, an Akron native, as assistant offensive line coach.
- DBN Super Bowl 60 Pick’em for Browns fans (Chris Pokorny) – It’s that time again to hear your predictions for the big game.
- Is Frisman Jackson about to win the big one? Browns connections in Super Bowl 2026, and Cleveland’s roster makeup (Chris Pokorny) – Which players or personnel on New England or Seattle were formerly on the Browns? Also, a look at Cleveland’s roster makeup.
- Browns NFL Draft: USC’s Ja’Kobi Lane would add a different dimension to the WR room (Matthew Wilson) – USC wide receiver Ja’Kobi Lane could be one of Cleveland’s top Day 2/3 targets in the 2026 NFL Draft.
- Super Bowl predictions 2026: Fans pick Seahawks vs. Patriots winner (Chris Pokorny) – Clevleand Browns fans cast their vote for Super Bowl LX.
- Browns HC Todd Monken was in no rush to talk to DC Jim Schwartz (Matthew Wilson) – It’s no secret that head coach Todd Monken wasn’t a fan of defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz’s actions, as he didn’t really feel the need to contact him when he was officially hired.
- Browns best DC candidate comes from an internal promotion (Barry Shuck) – The Cleveland Browns have to replace defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz and could look inside the building for a top candidate in Ephraim Banda.
Cleveland Browns
- Jim Schwartz’s Browns coaching legacy: By the numbers (cleveland.com) – What kind of legacy does Jim Schwartz leave after three seasons as defensive coorindator with the Cleveland Browns?
- Another non-Browns Super Bowl has me thinking about washed-up kickers and bad gamblers (Browns Zone) – Fun facts that you probably didn’t know about the Super Bowl. (Editor’s note: Fun was the word choice of the author. That word may not mean what he thinks it means.)
- Emmitt Smith goes off on Browns’ handling of Shedeur Sanders: ‘What’s the debate?’ (New York Post) – A Pro Football Hall of Famer wants the Browns to make what he believes is an obvious decision.
NFL
- How Mike Vrabel’s ritual ignited the Patriots’ Super Bowl run (ESPN) – This is a time of massive joy in the middle of Gillette Stadium, and yet Mike Vrabel is running from it. He shakes hands with Houston Texans coach DeMeco Ryans and darts off the field as his New England Patriots celebrate a trip to the AFC title game. It’s not a sprint. But it’s not a jog, either. This run is important.
- How Kliff Kingsbury hire could foreshadow Rams’ offseason plan (Turf Show Times) – Kliff Kingsbury has developed Patrick Mahomes, Kyler Murray, and Jayden Daniels. Is a Rams future QB up next?
- Eagles WR A.J. Brown excited to see offense with new OC: ‘Sometimes change is not a bad thing’ (NFL.com) – While there’s some uncertainty surrounding A.J. Brown’s future in Philadelphia, the star wide receiver is talking as if he will be playing with the Eagles in 2026.
- Ranking all 50 Super Bowl quarterback performances of the 21st Century (The Ringer) – Quarterbacks are judged on what they do in the biggest games, and there’s no bigger game than the Super Bowl. So we’ve ranked all the QB performances of the modern era, from worst to … guess who.
