The dreams, the decision and the pressure: Bernie Kosar’s story of becoming a Cleveland Brown – Terry Pluto
Posted May 09, 2021
University of Miami (Fla.) quarterback Bernie Kosar shakes hands with Cleveland Browns President Art Modell at a news conference to announce Kosar agreeing to terms with the team.Cleveland Plain Dealer
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This is another in a series of how former Browns were impacted by draft day.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – “Do you realize when the Browns drafted me, I was only three years out of (Youngstown) Boardman (High)?” said Bernie Kosar.
We were talking about the 1985 NFL Draft, how Kosar, his advisors and former Browns GM Ernie Accorsi found an unprecedented road to Cleveland.
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HENDERSON, Nev. Mike Davis, the former Raiders defensive back who made one of the most memorable interceptions in team history, has died. He was 65.
The Raiders announced Davis death Sunday. The team gave no details on the cause of death.
The former Colorado star was a second-round pick by the Raiders in 1977 and will always be remembered for his interception at the end of a playoff win at Cleveland on Jan. 4, 1981.
With the Raiders protecting a 14-12 lead with less than one minute remaining, the Browns had the ball at the Oakland 13 in position for a potential winning goal.
Marty Schottenheimer, former Browns head coach, dies at age 77
Updated Feb 09, 2021;
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Browns were 1-7 in 1984 when owner Art Modell decided to fire head coach Sam Rutigliano. In need of a new head coach, Modell called Marty Schottenheimer, his defensive coordinator at the time.
Modell offered Schottenheimer an interim role for the final eight games of the season. But Schottenheimer balked at that.
“Marty rejected it flatly,” wrote former Browns GM Ernie Accorsi in the forward to Schottenheimer’s 2012 autobiography. “Marty’s point, and he was right, was that he would have no chance of succeeding for the eight games left in the ’84 season if the players thought he was only the interim coach.”
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Marty Schottenheimer, the longtime NFL head coach who came agonizingly close to reaching the Super Bowl several times only to fall short, has died at the age of 77.
Schottenheimer died Monday night while in hospice care in Charlotte, North Carolina. His family shared the news through Bob Moore, former Kansas City Chiefs publicist, according to the Associated Press.
Schottenheimer served as head coach in Cleveland, Kansas City, Washington and San Diego over 21 seasons from 1984-2006, compiling a regular season record of 200-126-1 (.613) and reaching the postseason 13 times. He is one of eight head coaches in NFL history to reach the 200-win mark. However, he is the only non-active coach in that group who s not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.