The Browns grew up Sunday night, and,fittingly, they did it at their big brother's expense.Pick your year:The Browns had not won a playoff game since Jan. 1, 1995 before their relocation to Baltimore the next season and their return to the NFL in 1999. Cleveland had not beento a playoff gamesince Jan. 5, 2003 awild lo s at Heinz Field to the rival Steelers.MORE: This year was different. The Browns grew up. They showed maturity inaneye-opening48-37victory at Pittsburgh in the AFC wild-card round.Now, an unfamiliar reality has set in.Cleveland waxed Pittsburgh a few days after Steelers receiverJuJuSmith-Schuster said theThe Browns put a newface on anAFC North rivalry that has beendominated by the Steelers this century.The Browns are something else now. They Paulo Orlando Jersey led 28-0 after one quarter in a most stunning role reversal.Pittsburgh implodedfrom the first snap, which sailed over Ben Roethlisberger'shead and was recovered by Cleveland'sKarl Joseph in the end zone. It committed four turnovers in the first half, and the Brownsscored 21 points off those miscues. Roethlisberger, who entered the game with a 24-2-1 record against Cleveland, threw three first-half interceptions.The Browns, meanwhile, looked at home with Baker Mayfield (just like in the Progre sive commercials). Mayfield led a high-percentage attack that "Blitzburgh" could not crack. He finished21 of 34 for 263 yards, with threeTDsand no interceptions. One of the touchdowns was to Austin Hooper with34 seconds remaining in the second quarter to give Cleveland a 35-7 lead.Choose your adjective from there. It was surreal, unbelievable, maybe impo sible.Born-again Browns fans can rejoice.First-year coach Kevin Stefanski mi sed the game after testing Ryan Goins Jersey positive for COVID-19. Several players and other coaches were mi sing, too, as the team facedits biggest adversity in 2020.Acting coach Mike Priefer maintained a steady game plan on both sides, however, and Cleveland avoided a redux of the second-half meltdown in the 2003 wild-card matchup.The Browns grew up, and now they're worthy of the label "Super Bowl contender" along with the other seven teams still in the playoff field.Cleveland earned that status with Willie Wilson Jersey an 11-5 regular season led by aneven-keeled coach who has maximized the talentsof his franchise quarterback.Who believed the Browns would be in this position when Mayfield fumbled that fourth-quarter snapagainst the Jets in Week 16given how much the roster was riddled with COVID-19 i sues?Who would have believed it in a week where Cleveland didn't practice until Friday?"We believe," Mayfield said on the NBC telecast afterward. "The people on the outside don't matter to us. It's on the inside. We believed the whole time."There was a brief glimpse of generational franchise misfortune in the second half.Pittsburgh cut the lead to 35-23and had a fourth-and-1 at their 46to open the fourth quarter. Then it made a call that will be questioned for a long time.Instead of going for it, the Steelersopted to punt from their 41 after attempting to draw the Brownsoffside and then taking a 5-yard delay of game penalty.Had a full 3 minutes to think about it and punted away the game. Worst decision of Tomlin'scareer. Michael DeCourcy (@tsnmike) After that, there would be no "only in Cleveland" moments. Instead, there was just a mature response.The Browns immediately answered with a six-play, 80-yardtouchdown drive punctuated by a 40-yard pa s from Mayfield to Nick Chubb ona screen for the score.Roethlisberger, who Kansas City Royals Jersey finished 47 of 68 for 501 yards and four touchdowns, threw his fourth interception to a leaping Sione Takitaki with 3:16 remaining.That was the effective end of the quarter-century playoff-win drought.IYER: The role reversal is complete. Pittsburgh, the longstanding leader of Martin Maldonado Jersey the AFC North, will watch the Browns and Ravens play in the AFC divisional round. That new arrangement could also be a sign of a shift in the division for years to come, one led byMayfield and Baltimore's Lamar Jackson, who picked up his first playoff victory Sunday. The Steelers will have far more questions in the offseason, including whether it truly is time to start over.The Browns? They've been there, done that too many times since 1999. Now they appear ready for NFL adulthood, and the journey to it continues Sunday in Kansas City againstthe defending Super Bowl champion. That is the next step in theproce s of becoming a champion.It will bea full-grown football game.And,yes, the Browns finally belong there.