1951 NFL Championship Game

Cleveland Browns	Los Angeles Rams
17	24

	1	2	3	4	Total
Cleveland Browns	0	10	0	7	17
Los Angeles Rams	0	7	7	10	24

Date

December 23, 1951

Stadium

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California

Referee

Ronald Gibbs

Attendance

59,475

TV in the United States

Network

DuMont

Announcers

Harry Wismer & Earl Gillespie

The 1951 National Football League Championship Game was the 19th NFL championship game, played December 23 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California.

It was a rematch of the previous year's game in Cleveland, with the Los Angeles Rams (8–4) of the National Conference meeting the defending league champion Cleveland Browns (11–1) of the American Conference. In the league championship game for the third straight year, the Rams were seeking their first NFL title since moving to California in early 1946 (the Cleveland Rams won the 1945 title, then left a month later). The Browns were favored to win this title game on the road by six points.

This was the first NFL championship game to be televised coast-to-coast, and was blacked out by the league in the southern California area. The DuMont Network purchased the championship game TV rights from the NFL in May for five years (1951–55) for $475,000.

The home underdog Rams upset the Browns 24–17 for their first (and only) NFL championship as a California team, before a then-record crowd for the title game of 59,475. The "World Championship" banner awarded to the Rams was given as a gift to Tom Bergin after the game in gratitude for hosting the post-game dinner. As of 2016 it still hangs in the Tom Bergin's Irish pub in Los Angeles, the only one in private ownership. This was also the first time that the Browns under Paul Brown did not finish the season with a championship after 4 wins in the AAFC and a championship in their first NFL season in 1950.

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