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NFL incorporates old AAFC stats, shifting career leaderboards

Paul Brown just moved up a few spots on the NFL career coaching wins list.

The NFL owners approved a proposal by Competition Committee on Tuesday to incorporate player, coach and team statistics from the All-America Football Conference into the official NFL records.

The AAFC existed from 1946-49 with Paul Brown's Cleveland team winning the title in each of those years. The Browns, San Francisco 49ers and original Baltimore Colts then joined the NFL in 1950. The Colts disbanded after one year before returning as a new franchise in 1953.

The AAFC had published a statistical supplement after its final season in 1949 that included single-game records, but scoresheets from all the individual games weren't available at the time.