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Understandable, since other than the Cavs' NBA championship a couple years ago, the city has had nothing else to "celebrate" since the Browns' last NFL championship ('64 season) in 1965 (more recent than the Lions in '57, obviously). They also played vs the Cowboys in the following year for the NFL crown, but were defeated.
Despite losing the team, but not the franchise or its name in the latter half of the 90s, and entering the NFL a decade after the Portsmouth Spartans became the Detroit Lions, the Browns have also managed to win twice as many NFL Championships (8) than the Lions have (4), and have won more playoff games (6) than the Lions (1), and more div titles (9) than the Lions (2) in the SB era.
The parade idea was first conceived and organized last season, when the Browns were still a threat to lose all 16 regular season games, but narrowly averted it by defeating the Chargers in Game 15. So the celebration is named Perfect Season 2.0:
https://www.ohio.com/akron/news/browns-do-the-unthinkable-and-go-0-16-perfect-season-parade-is-a-go
Despite losing the team, but not the franchise or its name in the latter half of the 90s, and entering the NFL a decade after the Portsmouth Spartans became the Detroit Lions, the Browns have also managed to win twice as many NFL Championships (8) than the Lions have (4), and have won more playoff games (6) than the Lions (1), and more div titles (9) than the Lions (2) in the SB era.
The parade idea was first conceived and organized last season, when the Browns were still a threat to lose all 16 regular season games, but narrowly averted it by defeating the Chargers in Game 15. So the celebration is named Perfect Season 2.0:
https://www.ohio.com/akron/news/browns-do-the-unthinkable-and-go-0-16-perfect-season-parade-is-a-go