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===The Browns, 49ers, and Colts in the NFL===
The Browns went 10–2 to finish in a first-place tie with the [[New York Giants]], then won a playoff 8–3 to qualify for the 1950 NFL championship game. Their opponent was a formidable [[Los Angeles Rams]] team that averaged nearly 39 points per game, a record that still stands. (Ironically, this was the Rams’ first game in Cleveland since winning the 1945 title as the Cleveland Rams.) In a classic seesaw game, the Browns prevailed on a last-minute field goal, 30–28, to win their fifth consecutive league title.

The Browns’ 1950 season confirmed the quality of their AAFC achievements as nothing else could. After the title game, Commissioner Bell called the Browns "the greatest team to ever play football."<ref name="Show182">Piascik, pg. 182</ref>

Cleveland remained near the top of the NFL for years, although in 1951 they were finally denied a league title (by the Rams). The Browns played in every NFL title game from 1950 to 1955, winning three of them, for a grand total of seven league titles in ten years.

The other ex-AAFC teams did not fare nearly as well.

The 49ers, the AAFC's second-best team, struggled in 1950 and finished 3–9. However, starting the next year they emerged as one of the better teams in the NFL's Western Conference, reaching the postseason in 1957 after some near-misses.

The Colts' prospects were not promising: they had finished 1–11 and last in the AAFC in 1949 and also faced the handicap of playing near the [[Washington Redskins]]. In 1950, the Colts went 1–11 again and disbanded. Their legacy lived on, however: three years later, a [[Indianapolis Colts|new Baltimore Colts franchise]] team was established after the Dallas Texans folded and the Colts became one of the NFL's storied teams. Although the Colts would [[Indianapolis Colts#Relocation to Indianapolis|controversially move]] to [[Indianapolis]], on March 29, 1984, the NFL would return to Baltimore for the [[1996 NFL season]] in the form of the [[Baltimore Ravens]]. From an organizational perspective, the Ravens are a continuation of the pre-1996 Browns, who played in Cleveland until they [[Cleveland Browns relocation controversy|controversially agreed to move to Baltimore]] for the [[1996 NFL season]]. Officially, the NFL considers the "[[Expansion team|expansion]]" Browns ([[1999 NFL season|1999]] on) to be one continuous franchise from the original 1946 AAFC team, with it having ''suspended operations from [[1996 NFL season|1996]] to [[1998 NFL season|1998]]'', while the Ravens are considered to have been established in 1996. While the pre-[[1984 NFL season|1984]] history of the Colts officially remains with the Indianapolis franchise, the Ravens have also recognized it in a number of ways. {{citation needed|date=June 2021}}

''See [[Cleveland Browns]], [[San Francisco 49ers]], [[Baltimore Colts (1947–50)|Baltimore Colts]] (1947–50), and [[Indianapolis Colts]] for further details of these teams' subsequent histories.''