Browns Will Wear Throwbacks Tonight

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To honor Cleveland Browns Legends weekend with Warren Lahr, Paul Wiggin, Walter Johnson and Eric Metcalf being inducted into the Browns Hall of Fame, the current Browns will wear their 1957-59 throwback unis tonight on MNF against the N.Y. Giants. Of course, aside from a few changes, the Browns pretty much have the same uniforms today that they did back in their inaugural season of 1946. Thus, a throwback uniform for this team is more like going back to the future. In any event, the Browns will wear:

• Brown jerseys, nearly identical to the ones that are worn by the Browns on every other Sunday this year. It should be noted that in 2006 the Browns went back to the white and orange striping on sleeves that was used until the late 1960s. In between, the Browns used different striping that incorporated brown and feather striping — a thin space between the various stripes.
• White pants with thinner stripes than the ones that are used today, running down the outside of each leg. These pants were used through 1995, when the original Browns franchise moved to Baltimore.
• Brown socks with white and orange striping that matches the striping on the uniform sleeves. They were worn into the late 1960s.
• Orange helmets with a single white stripe going down the middle from front to back, with the players’ jersey numbers in brown print displayed on both sides. Brown stripes on either side of the white one were added in 1960 and remain part of the Browns regular helmet. The numbers were removed after the 1960 season and have not appeared since other than for these throwback games.
• Black shoes. The Browns wore this color through 1974, at which time they went to white. They began wearing black again in 2006.

Three of the four new Browns Legends (Lahr, Wiggin and Johnson) played for the team during the time of these throwback uniforms.

Source: ClevelandBrowns.com