These are rare times in Detroit and Cleveland. Lions and Browns fans must be savoring them.
The Lions are 8-2 for the first time since 1962.
The Browns are 7-3.
These teams have not collectively won 7 of their first 10 games in a season since 1969.
For the first time since 1969, the Lions and Browns each have each won seven of their first 10 games.
The last time this happened:
🏈Jets were the defending Super-Bowl champs.
🏈Bill Belichick was a senior at Annapolis High School in MD.
🏈Apollo 11 landed on the moon.— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 19, 2023
The year also saw the New York Mets stun the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series.
The Browns finished 10-3-1.
The Lions wound up 9-4-1.
There were no wild cards back then so the Lions failed to make the playoffs, finishing behind the Minnesota Vikings.
Cleveland, which was in the NFL that year because the merger had not taken place, crushed the Dallas Cowboys in a playoff game before losing to the Vikings in the championship contest.
