The NFL season just keeps rolling along. Things change every year, including for the Cleveland Browns, in a couple of ways.

I interviewed halfback Paul Hornung of the Green Bay Packers once in Las Vegas at a Hall of Fame show, working for the Beckett Football Price Guide. One of my questions was how different football was now versus in his playing days. He said one major thing he noticed was the rule about the ground not being able to cause a fumble. He said in his day, a ball carrier had to be down for three seconds. In that span of hitting the turf, defenders could punch, gouge, hit, spit, and grab at the ball, and if it came out, it was a live ball.

Some of the original rules of the pro game were very odd. A punt could be recovered by either team. If the ball was fumbled out of bounds

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