CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Browns on Monday announced a multimillion-dollar initiative with the city of Cleveland that will see the team install artificial turf on five city football fields.

The Browns made the announcement at FirstEnergy Stadium in a 2:30 p.m. press conference. Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam were in attendance, along with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon.

Also there for the announcement were coaches and 100 athletes from the Cleveland schools; and former Brown Roman Oben, the NFL's senior director of football development.

"The kids are excited, and I think they're kind of awestruck and not sure what's happening," said deputy commissioner Vince Marquard Jr. from the School District's Senate Athletic League. "I think once they saw that picture on the scoreboard they knew it was for them."

The fields that will receive the new turf are:

John Adams Field, Roye Kidd Field, James F. Rhodes Field, John Marshall Field and Bump Taylor Field.

The Rhodes and Kidd fields will be ready for the start of the 2016 high school season, the Browns said. The Adams and Marshall fields will be completed by the 2017 season; and the timeline for Bump Taylor is being finalized.

John F. Kennedy coach Chris Hubbard was pleased with the news. Roye Kidd Field, which is the home field for JFK, was named after Hubbard's longtime coach who died last year.

"It was great when I saw it on the jumbo-tron and see Roye Kidd Field up there," Hubbard said. "It gave me goosebumps because he was like my father. He coached me, coached so many young men from that community and to be the first ones to get it means everything to us."

The Browns revealed the plan as part of the organization's community impact project. The move is expected to help trim costs for field conditioning and provide long-term durability.

"To have a state of the art facility paid out of the generosity of the Browns, we couldn't be more excited," Rhodes soccer coach Sean Stewart said. "It's an amazing opportunity not just for our kids, but all the kids that will get to come there."

Last year, the Browns partnered with the city to renovate Dwayne Browder Field, which is used by such groups as Cleveland Muny Football League and East Tech High School.

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