1999 Cleveland Browns season

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The 1999 Cleveland Browns season was the Browns 51st season overall and 47th in the NFL. It marked the return of professional football to the city of Cleveland, Ohio for the first time since the 1995 season, when the franchise was temporarily deactivated following the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy, which ultimately established the Baltimore Ravens. While technically an expansion team, the team officially and legally are considered a continuation of the previous franchise, as the history and colors of the team remained in Cleveland. The franchise was still alive as a legal entity between 1996 and 1998, and its assets kept in a trust managed by the NFL until Al Lerner became the owner in 1998, taking over the role from the previous owner, Art Modell, who first initiated the relocation in the first place, to the outrage of the citizens in the city of Cleveland. That season the Browns were given full expansion team treatment via an expansion draft and receiving the number one overall...

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