Even though the settings have been different and stadium atmospheres have been tamed, the season has been nothing short of special from the perspective of the crew. They haven t forgotten about the sorrows of calling the 0-16 season in 2017 and how painful it was to provide audio throughout the longest playoff drought in the NFL.
Now after a wait all Browns fans endured with them they ve embraced the opportunity to provide Northeast Ohio with a call from the playoffs. I ve always wondered what it would be like when they do win, Donovan said. I ve always wondered what it would be like when they are in a big games or when they re in a big playoff game. To be able to finally experience that, it s been great. It s been fulfilling. I m very, very happy.
Cleveland Browns vs. New York Jets Week 16: How to watch, free streaming if you don’t have cable, time, channel
Updated Dec 27, 2020;
Posted Dec 27, 2020
Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield hands the ball off to running back Nick Chubb in Week 15 against the Giants. The Browns are back in New York on Sunday to face the Jets. John Kuntz, cleveland.com
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The Browns can clinch a playoff spot with a win and losses by the Ravens or Colts on Sunday. A win by the Browns and a loss by the Steelers (to the Colts) sets up a Week 17 showdown for the AFC North title between the Browns and Steelers.
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.
It s been 25 years since the Browns broke Cleveland s heart and left for Baltimore
CLEVELAND Chris McNeil s earliest memory of being at a Cleveland Browns game goes back to 1987. McNeil was 7 years old. The Browns trailed the Jets by 10 with just four minutes remaining in the AFC divisional playoffs. But I m standing up on my chair, McNeil recalls, yelling, We re going to win!
Sure enough, Bernie Kosar engineered a pair of dramatic late scoring drives, and Cleveland prevailed in double overtime in the third-longest game in NFL history the Marathon by the Lake for its first playoff victory since 1969. McNeil, there with his parents and uncle, watching from around a beam blocking his view, was hooked.