Today is the penultimate Sunday of NFL games as the AFC Championship and NFC Championship games will take place.
Somewhere between today’s games and the Super Bowl in two weeks, one or more of the networks will show a graphic highlighting how the Cleveland Browns are one of just four teams who have yet to appear in a Super Bowl. (We’ll ignore the pesky detail of Cleveland’s eight league titles, which still count even if they were not called the Super Bowl.)
It has been a while, of course, but the Browns have come close five times to making the ultimate game in the Super Bowl era.