1964 NFL Championship Game participants in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Browns: Jim Brown, Lou Groza, Leroy Kelly, Paul Warfield
Colts: Raymond Berry, John Mackey, Gino Marchetti, Lenny Moore, Jim Parker, Johnny Unitas
Aftermath
The Browns and their wives gathered at a nearby hotel for the victory party that they organized themselves. Jim Brown went home first to pick up his wife. When they walked i
… Moren, the players and their wives stood and applauded. "No applause ever meant as much to me as that from those guys," said Jim.
Before he went to bed that night, Brown called Western Union and sent a telegram to Mrs. Blanton Collier thanking her for allowing her husband to spend so much time with the team. The Colliers cherished that telegram the rest of their lives.
James Doyle celebrated the championship with a poem in the next day's Plain Dealer.
The big grid league's eastern division,
Oft spoken of with much derision
By filiberts of the western towns,
Is high tops now - thanks to the Browns.
Thirty years later, Browns DE Paul Wiggin expressed feelings that many of his '64 teammates could understand. If you were to ask me what was the greatest feeling in my life, it was winning that championship. I don't wear jewelry. I don't wear my wedding ring. But for years, I wore that championship ring. My wife asked me why, and I tried to tell her that for one moment in my life, nothing has ever meant as much to me as that championship. It only lasted a short time, but to have that feeling about being the best in the world ... As I walked out of the Stadium that day, there was a telephone pole. I wanted to climb up that pole and just yell to the whole city of Cleveland that I was a part of the best football team in the world ... We had a group of guys from Georgia, California - you name it. White guys, black guys, it didn't matter. Nothing mattered except on that one day, we came together and did something very special. I have spent a lot of years in pro football trying to duplicate that feeling, and I never have. Less
