Almost half of Graham’s career was spent in the competing All-America Football Conference, so the four AAFC championships he won with the Browns weren’t recognized in NFL record books.

The AAFC lasted from 1946 to 1949 when some of the teams were folded into the NFL. That's great news for the Browns, as they won all four AAFC championships before joining the NFL in 1950 and ...

The AAFC existed from 1946-49 with Paul Brown's Cleveland team winning the title in each of those years. The Browns, San Francisco 49ers and original Baltimore Colts then joined the NFL in 1950.

At the annual league meetings, team owners approved a proposal by the Competition Committee to officially incorporate statistics from the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) into the NFL’s ...

That report included a notice that the statistics from the AAFC, including players, coaches and teams, will finally be incorporated into the NFL's official records. The league had not officially ...

The AAFC existed from 1946-49 with Paul Brown's Cleveland team winning the title in each of those years. The Browns, San Francisco 49ers and original Baltimore Colts then joined the NFL in 1950.

The rest of the teams folded. Despite those links with the NFL, all the records for every team and player from the four years the AAFC existed disappeared, unacknowledged in the NFL's record books.

The 49ers played in the All-America Football Conference before joining the NFL in 1950, and the NFL has just decided to count AAFC stats into the league’s official records. That means the Ravens have ...