The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the Northern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Cleveland Cleveland Browns began play in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and joined the NFL in 1950 after the AAFC folded. The team won all four AAFC titles and had one undefeated season (1948 - 15-0), as well as four NFL Championships.

The Cleveland Browns are the only team in the NFL that do not have a logo on their helmets. Even though the team has had various logos throughout the years, such as the "Brownie Elf" mascot (a logo that Art Modell did away with in the mid-1960s, feeling it was too childish, however its use has been revived under the current ownership.) and the Brown "B" in a white football, the club's orange "logo-less" helmet has become its primary trademark. The only time that the Cleveland Browns ever had a logo on their helmets was during one preseason game vs Green Bay in 1965; it was a brown "CB". (the "CB" Logo is what Art Modell tried to use as a replacement for the "Brownie Elf" mascot.)

Since debuting in 1946, the Cleveland Browns' uniforms have essentially remained the same. However, the team originally wore white helmets before switching to orange (with a white center stripe.) on a full-time basis in 1952. (In the 1950 & '51 seasons, the Cleveland Browns wore the white helmets in day games and plain orange helmets in night games because of an NFL rule prohibiting the use of white or light-colored helmets for night games because of the lighting and the use of a white football for night games. Also because of night games, they experimented with silver game pants in the 1950 & '51 seasons, and a third orange jersey for night games in the 1954 season.) From 1957 to 1960, the players' numbers were on the sides of their helmets. In 1960, the Browns went to the now familiar brown-white-brown stripe sequence on the helmets along with each player's respective number in brown on the side.

The original designs of the jerseys, pants and socks have remained mostly intact although the helmet has undergone significant revisions.

Numerals first appeared on the jersey sleeves in 1961. Over the years, there have been minor revisions to the sleeve stripes, the first occurring in 1968 (brown jerseys worn in early season) and 1969 (white and brown jerseys) when stripes began to be silk screened onto the sleeves and separated from each other to prevent color bleeding. However, the basic five-stripe sequence has remained intact (with the exception of the 1984 season). A recent revision was the addition of the initials "AL" to honor Al Lerner who died in 2002 after buying the resurrected team in 1999 and after helping to grease the skids for the 1995 move.

In 2006, the team reverted to an older uniform style, featuring gray face masks; the original stripe pattern on the brown jersey sleeves and the older, darker shade of brown. The team discontinued the alternate orange jerseys as well as the orange pants.

On November 26, 2006, as part of the commemoration of their 60th anniversary, the Cleveland Browns wore a replica of their 1957-59 uniforms in a 30-0 loss to Cincinnati at Cleveland Browns Stadium. The "throwback" uniform was the same as that worn by Jim Brown in his 1957 rookie season.

As a result of the team not having a real logo, it is represented by orange when seen on Fox.

Paul Brown got his inspiration for the Brown's colors from the nearby Bowling Green State University. Early on B.G.S.U. also hosted Cleveland Browns training camps. Today the University displays a plaque that commemorates this connection with the NFL franchise.

A 2006 study conducted by Bizjournal determined that Cleveland Browns fans are the most loyal fans in the NFL. The study was largely based on fan loyalty during winning and losing seasons (however, it does not account for the ratio of winning to losing seasons by a team), attendance at games, and challenges confronting fans (such as inclement weather or long-term poor performance of their team). The study noted that Cleveland Browns fans filled 99.8% of the seats at Cleveland Browns Stadium during the last seven seasons, despite a combined record of 36 wins and 76 loses over that span.

The most prominent organization of Cleveland Browns fans is the Browns Backers Worldwide (BBW). The organization has approximately 50,000 members and is considered the largest sports-fan organization in the USA. Browns Backers clubs can be found in every major city in the United States, and in a number of military bases throughout the world, with the largest club being in Phoenix, Arizona. In addition, the organization has a sizable foreign presence in places as far away as Egypt, Australia, Japan, and Sri Lanka.

Perhaps the most visible Cleveland Browns fans are those that can be found in the Dawg Pound. The Dawg Pound is located at the east end zone of Cleveland Browns Stadium and features hundreds of fans clad in orange and brown and canine attire. The fans are known to be rowdy and loud and have impacted many games.

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