The Cleveland Browns finished the 2009 season where they have been for the better part of a decade, in the celler of the AFC North division. There has been a glimmer of hope to end the year in 2009. The Browns upset the Pittsburgh Steelers 13-6, starting a streak of four consecutive victories to end the season.http://www.nfl.com/teams/clevelandbrowns/schedule?team=CLEDuring that streak, they were led by running back Jerome Harrison, quarterback Brady Quinn and all-world returner Josh Cribbs. In the off-season, the Browns signed Mike Holmgren to run the football operations and breath some much-needed life into this moribund franchise. Hope returned that Holmgren can bring back a championship to the city of Cleveland, or, at the very least, return the franchise to respectability.

The Cleveland Browns were champions in the old NFL, winning four NFL championships between 1950 - 1964. They were led by NFL greats quarterback Otto Graham and, in later years, running back Jim Brown. But those days are distant memories. The modern-day reincarnation of the Browns, which returned to Cleveland in 1999 after being moved to Baltimore by then owner Art Modell have made the playoffs just once, in 2002, and have had only two winning seasons in that span.http://www.mahalo.com/search?q=cleveland%20browns%20playoffsThe dominant Browns of the 1950s have been replaced by a team routinely posting double-digit loss seasons.

• 2002 - Lost in First Round of AFC Playoffs