CLEVELAND — This Sunday's Cleveland Browns matchup against the Green Bay Packers will be more than a game.

Fans will join the team in celebrating a milestone: the 40th anniversary of the Dawg Pound .

In this edition of "Leon Bibb: Then and Now," Leon revisits how one of the most famous fan traditions in football began — and why it still echoes through Cleveland today.

It started in 1985 with cornerbacks Hanford Dixon and Frank Minnifield. As leaders of the Browns' defense, they pushed their teammates to attack quarterbacks with the tenacity of dogs chasing cats.

"We told the defensive line, 'We're going to bark at you, and when we bark at you, that's the little incentive for you guys to rare back, think of the quarterback as the cat (and) you guys are the dog," Dixon recalled.

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