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Cleveland Browns – The Championship Curse

For fans within the Cleveland Browns, whose team have not won an NFL Championship since 1964 – and have never won the Super Bowl – the franchise has seemed cursed to remain forevermore outside the hallowed halls of professional football’s elite. To be sure, there happen to be enough odd instances throughout the modern history within the Browns to give rise to such a belief. When most fans think from the curse that has apparently plagued the team, nevertheless, you will find three particular plays and drives that come to mind: the Red Appropriate 88 instance, the Drive, as well as the Fumble.

Red Perfect 88

Red Perfect 88 refers to a play on January 4 of 1981 that was called by Cleveland toward the end on the team’s Division playoff matchup with the Raiders of Oakland. Inside waning moments of that game, the Browns were behind by a score of fourteen to twelve, and driving. They managed to obtain the ball down to Oakland’s thirteen, and still had nearly a minute of game time left. Most fans assumed that the group would line up to kick what would happen to be the victory field goal. Instead, the team attempted “Red Proper 88” – a passing play. Brian Sipe, the Browns quarterback, then proceeded to throw the ball into the end zone in an attempt to connect with Ozzie Newsome, the tight end. The ball ended up being intercepted by Mike Davis from the Raiders, and also the Browns lost the game and any hope of a Super Bowl berth that year.

The Drive

Six years and seven days later, the Browns were within the AFC title game against the Denver Broncos. Late inside fourth quarter, Cleveland was ahead by a touchdown. All they had to do was keep John Elway and his Broncos out with the end zone for the last thirty-seven seconds of game-time. What happened then was a single of the most remarkable – and for Cleveland fans, heartbreaking – drives from the background with the sport. Elway proceeded to drive his Broncos group ninety-eight yards down the field in that thirty-seven second span of time, for the tying score. Worse, the Browns ended up losing inside the subsequent overtime period, twenty-three to twenty. Now known as the Drive, the series by Elway is just one far more part within the team’s legendary cursed historical past.

The Fumble

And then there’s the Fumble. Just a single year after the “Drive” broke the hearts of Browns fans, they found their team back in the AFC title game after far more – when when again facing Elway as well as the Broncos. There was just over a minute left in the game, along with the Browns running back was on his way to what would are already a touchdown run to tie the score and force overtime. After again, nevertheless, fate intervened, as the ball was fumbled at the 3 yard line and recovered by the Broncos at the two – oddly sufficient, the same two yard line from which Elway had begun the “Drive” just a year prior to.

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