Cleveland again won the AAFC championship in 1949 before the league dissolved and the Browns were absorbed by the more established NFL.

After football, Grigg owned and ran a successful restaurant in Texas for 18 years, retiring in the early 1970s as his health began to falter.

In late 1976, he was arrested after shooting and killing his son Michael, who was taking drugs and had been convicted of burglary the year before.

[4] As a joke at practice, Buffalo coach Red Dawson occasionally told players to "take two laps around Grigg".

[6] Grigg played one year for the Rockets before being traded along with Alex Agase to the Cleveland Browns, a team that had won the first two AAFC championships.

[8] Cleveland won the championship again in 1949, but the AAFC dissolved after the season and the Browns were absorbed by the more established National Football League (NFL).

[10] In 1950, Cleveland's first season in the NFL, the team finished with a 10–2 record and advanced to the championship game against the Los Angeles Rams.

[13] Grigg stayed with the Browns for the 1951 season, when the team again reached the championship game but lost to the Rams.

[16] After his playing career ended, Grigg owned and operated a successful restaurant in Ore City, Texas that was well known in Upshur County for its catfish.

"[18] The jury in Grigg's murder trial was deadlocked 9 to 3; he changed his plea to guilty of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to five years of probation.