The countdown to the 2020 NFL season is upon us. With 58 days remaining until the Browns season opener, we continue the countdown by celebrating the best Cleveland Browns player to ever wear number 58: Mac Speedie.
Mac Speedie was a member of the inaugural Cleveland Browns squad in 1946. His path to playing pro football took many twists and turns as it did for many young men in the early 1940’s. Although, even by most young aspiring athletes’ standards of his day, Speedie’s path to greatness was unique.
Speedie had Perthes Disease as a young child.