Christina Gough
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Cleveland Browns - statistics & facts
The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team competing in the National Football League (NFL) in the NFC North division. The team was founded in 1945 by businessman Arthur B. Bride and coach Paul Brown, whom the team is named after. Although the Browns have never made a Super Bowl appearance, the team achieved great success in the 1950s, winning multiple NFL championships in 1950, 1954, and 1955, as well as one more in 1964. The team’s most recent playoff appearance took place in 2023; however, the Browns lost in the Wild Card Round to the Houston Texans.
What are the financials of the Cleveland Browns?
Under Jimmy Haslam, the current owner of the Cleveland Browns, the team’s franchise value rose to 4.62 billion U.S. dollars as of 2023. Jimmy Haslan purchased the team in 2012 for approximately one billion U.S. dollars. Since then, the team’s revenue increased alongside its franchise value. The revenue of the Cleveland Browns reached an all-time high of 545 million U.S dollars in 2022. However, despite the team’s increasing revenue figures, the Browns ranked in the bottom half of the most valuable franchises in the NFL that year. After deducting operating costs such as the payroll of the Cleveland Browns, the operating income of the franchise amounted to 104 million U.S. dollars in 2022.How many fans attend the average Cleveland Browns game?
Most of the Browns’ administrative offices and training facilities are currently located in Berea, Ohio, while the team’s home games are played at the FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2022, the team’s average regular season home attendance totaled 67,431. The cost of attending a Brown’s game in that year was relatively affordable compared to many other NFL teams. A family of four could expect to pay around 593 U.S. dollars according to the 2022 Fan Cost Index. This figure was largely due to the average ticket price of a Cleveland Browns game, which was roughly 112 U.S. dollars in 2022.Do the Cleveland Browns have a strong social media following?
The Cleveland Browns placed 19th in a ranking of social media followings in the NFL as of October 2023, with the franchise’s official X page (formerly known as Twitter) recording approximately 1.61 million followers. The New England Patriots, by comparison, topped the list that year with 4.67 million X followers. When compared to the social media followings of individual NFL players, however, all NFL teams had a significantly smaller social media outreach. Odell Beckham Jr., a wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens, had nearly 17 million Instagram followers as of January 2023.
