For fans of the Cleveland Browns, whose crew have not gained an NFL Championship since 1964 - and have never won the Super Bowl - the franchise has seemed cursed to remain forevermore exterior the hallowed halls of professional soccer's elite. To make sure, there have been sufficient odd cases throughout the fashionable historical past of the Browns to present rise to such a belief. When most followers think of the curse that has apparently plagued the team, nevertheless, there are three particular plays and drives that come to thoughts: the Red Proper 88 occasion, the Drive, and the Fumble.
Purple Proper 88
Pink Right 88 refers to a play on January four of 1981 that was called by Cleveland toward the end of the crew's Division playoff matchup with the Raiders of Oakland. In the waning moments of that game, the Browns have been behind by a score of fourteen to 12, and driving. They managed to get the ball right down to Oakland's 13, and still had nearly a minute of sport time left. Most fans assumed that the staff would line as much as kick what would have been the victory area goal. As an alternative, the workforce tried "Purple Proper 88" - a passing play. Brian Sipe, the Browns quarterback, then proceeded to throw the ball into the end zone in an attempt to attach with Ozzie Newsome, the tight end. The ball ended up being intercepted by Mike Davis of the Raiders, and the Browns lost the sport and any hope of a Tremendous Bowl berth that year.
The Drive
Six years and seven days later, the Browns have been in the AFC title game in opposition to the Denver Broncos. Late in the fourth quarter, Cleveland was forward by a touchdown. All they had to do was preserve John Elway and his Broncos out of the tip zone for the last thirty-seven seconds of recreation-time. What happened then was one of the vital outstanding - and for Cleveland fans, heartbreaking - drives in the historical past of the sport. Elway proceeded to drive his Broncos team ninety-eight yards down the sphere in that thirty-seven second span of time, for the tying score. Worse, the Browns ended up losing in the subsequent extra time interval, twenty-three to twenty. Now often called the Drive, the collection by Elway is only one more part of the team's legendary cursed history.
The Fumble
After which there's the Fumble. Only one 12 months after the "Drive" broke the hearts of Browns followers, they discovered their group back within the AFC title game once more - as soon as once more going through Elway and the Broncos. There was simply over a minute left in the recreation, and the Browns operating back was on his strategy to what would have been a landing run to tie the score and drive overtime. As soon as again, nonetheless, destiny intervened, because the ball was fumbled at the three yard line and recovered by the Broncos at the two - oddly enough, the same two yard line from which Elway had begun the "Drive" just a 12 months before.
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