Mark J. Price
Akron Beacon Journal
If you were a Cleveland football fan in December 1980, you didn’t want your true love to give you a partridge in a pear tree. You wanted Browns owner Art Modell to give you a Sam Rutigliano Super Bowl team.
Believe it or not, it’s been 40 years since the Kardiac Kids thrilled the NFL with a series of dramatic, improbable, last-minute victories. And the biggest hit on Northeast Ohio radio at the time was the novelty song “The Twelve Days of a Cleveland Brown Christmas,” which name-checked some of the team’s biggest stars.