Fans remember meeting Marty Schottenheimer and Clay Matthews – Terry’s Talkin’ Browns
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
Posted Feb 14, 2021
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – One of the ways to grieve is to tell stories. Many Browns fans met Marty Schottenheimer and Clay Matthews. Even more feel as if they knew the former coach and linebacker.
I wrote a column earlier in the week after Schottenheimer died from Alzheimer’s and Matthews was yet again passed over for the Hall of Fame. It happened within three days. Lots of fans responded.
Let’s hear some stories.
THE MAN & THE HEART
(Ray Yannucci covered the Browns for the Akron Beacon Journal and later owned Browns News Illustrated. This is part of a condolence note written to Pat Schottenheimer after the death of her husband).
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An NFL team once went two months without winning a game and still made the playoffs. The 2014 Panthers beat the Bears on Oct. 5 and tied the Bengals before losing six straight, leaving them 3-8-1 on Dec. 6. Thanks to a four-game win streak (and a terrible division), Carolina (19th on offense, 21st defensively) hosted a playoff game and won it. Of course, the Cardinals were on their third quarterback, Ryan Lindley, by then to set up one of the worst playoff matchups in NFL history. The Seahawks eliminated the Panthers, but Carolina won 17 of its next 18 games en route to Super Bowl 50.
Mike McGinnis-Getty Images Since 1995, the Packers and 49ers have played eight playoff games. Bigger Green Bay and San Francisco games from this period seem to have obscured this frigid showdown. Wisconsin native Colin Kaepernick bedeviled the Packers for a second straight year, accounting for 325 yards (98 rushing) and outplaying Aaron Rodgers on this day. After the 49ers held the Packers to a field goal to tie the game at 20, Kaepernick engineered a game-winning drive complete with an 11-yard scamper on third-and-8 to lift the visitors to a
23-20 win. This was the first of three straight Packers walk-off playoff losses.