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February 1, 2011The Browns and the 4-3 Defense
February 1, 2011I love You Tube. It is seriously a genius invention that you can spend hours and hours on finding old videos that will make you smile, laugh, cringe, or cry – the gambit of emotions. Which brings me to this video.
Fast forward to the 1:41 mark. Its the 1986 AFC Championship game in Cleveland. Broncos/Browns. Tie game. 13-13. Late fourth quarter. Third and six for the Browns at the Denver 48. The Browns go four wide out of the shotgun. Enjoy the magic…
You’d have to say that this is perhaps the greatest moment in the last 30 years of Browns Football, right? The feeling inside that stadium after Brian Brennan broke free from Dennis Smith and ran into the end zone was something that still to this day, 25 years later, that has never been topped. I remember jumping up and down with my brother screaming “we’re going to the Super Bowl! We’re going to the Super Bowl!”
Meanwhile, its Super Bowl week 2011 and our poor Browns still have yet to reach the big game. This was as close as we’ve ever been.
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TD, have you watched ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ lately?
Only missing the greatest radio call I ever heard. With the ball still IN THE AIR Nev Chandler screamed “Brennan turns one way, then the other …” A lot of talent in the stadium that day.
And if you weren’t ever in the old stadium you can’t appreciate how loud it was, not from the crappy old PA system but from the fans’ roar. The stands would shake, literally.
What a cannon on that #19! Just drop back and fling it kid!
I was never more convinced a Cleveland team was going to win than I was in the moments after Brennan’s touchdown. Then it all went to hell.
Even moreso than going into the bottom of the ninth of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series with a one-run run, that was indeed our moment.
P.S. It should be “gamut of emotions.”
ThaNks fir the reminder, ugh. Seems like ancient times now.
Unfortunately, that WAS our moment.
So many emotions after watching that. (1) I remember the sheer joy of being up 7 with less than six to go in the game. Not long after, the Browns pinned the Donkeys on the 2-yard line, making the Super Bowl seem like an even surer thing. (2) The utter heartbreak when Karlis’ kick went over the upright (wink, wink). We had gone from our first Super Bowl appearance to utter devastation. I still can’t believe it. (3) It has been twenty-four – TWENTY FREAKIN’ FOUR – seasons since then. I am 39 and I am still waiting for the first SB appearance. I know that some of you are older than me, but it’s the idea that as a fourteen year-old then, I was sure we’d get there at some point. I am now 39, as I mentioned, and I am still “waiting for next year”. I would love to see one with my dad, and the clock is ticking…
I’m still waiting to see that field goal to go through the uprights…because it sure didn’t happen in overtime
Best part of that is Enburg and and Olsen remaining quiet for almost 30 seconds just letting that play soak in. Oh so close.
Sure looks like players back then did a lot more sholder shrugs.
Reliving these “what if” woulda coulda shoulda moments is momentarily fun, but ultimately just depressing as hell. Unfortunately, they’re all we have.
/Bartender, another Kessler’s. Make it a double.
the really ironic thing is: if brennan catches the ball and gets tackled on the 10, the Browns probably run 2-3 minutes off the clock en route to a touchdown, or at least a field goal. it would have been much harder for Denver to get 98 yards down the field with 3 minutes left.
Let the inferiority complex begin…