The 1969 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 20th season with the

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and the last before the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger. The Browns made it to the

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, where they fell to the

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. The 1969 season would be the last year that Cleveland would win a postseason game until

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. In addition, that victory over

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would also be the last time the Browns won a postseason game on the road until the 2020–21 playoffs. This was also the last season in which the Browns made it to the league championship game, as they have failed to reach the Super Bowl after the merger.

Offseason

NFL Draft

The following were selected in the

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Personnel

Staff/Coaches

Roster

Preseason

On August 30, a crowd of 85,532 fans viewed a doubleheader at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. In the first contest, the Chicago Bears (with All-Pro running back

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) played the AFL's Buffalo Bills (with rookie running back O. J. Simpson), while the Cleveland Browns hosted the Green Bay Packers in the second match.Rockin’ the Rockpile: The Buffalo Bills of the American Football League, p.439, Jeffrey J. Miller, ECW Press, 2007,

Exhibition schedule

Regular season schedule

Standings

Playoffs

References

External links

1969 Cleveland Browns
at Pro Football Reference
1969 Cleveland Browns Statistics
at jt-sw.com
1969 Cleveland Browns Schedule
at jt-sw.com

at DatabaseFootball.com

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Cleveland Browns seasons

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