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Posted on 01/09/2005 8:59:17 AM PST by CounterCounterCulture
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I have always thought the Colts uniforms were the best in the league, but you are right...they should be in Baltimore!
As a Browns fan who suffered through three defeats in AFL title games to Denver during the '80s, it gives me great pleasure to see the Broncos getting their a$$ kicked today.
This game was over before it started.
Can't blame that loss on John Elway.
I would think that all those lost Super Bowls would have done that for you...:-)
I grew up with the Los Angeles Raiders. It took me a few years to get used to calling them the Oakland like my father always had.
Things are just getting so awful so fast these days. The worst recent new thing is the flying camera. I am not a f#&(&*g bird. When I sit in the stands and watch a game I don't move around. I watch from one vantage point, and it's not circling someplace above the play. The worst use of the flying camera (besides before every play) had to be on an Indy kickoff that was well covered. Some player came from out of the picture to cut the returner down at about the 20. But where did he come from? Did someone on Denver miss a block? With birdbrain vision we'll never know.
Sideline babes? Does anyone like them? (Except their mothers.) Maybe the braodcasters could let them all go and donate the money they save to some Tsunami Relief Fund?
Bottom of the screen score updates? Does anyone really not know what happened in the games played yesterday? Why do I have to lose 15% of the screen to periodic useless information? (I can't wait for them to tell us that Minnesota and Green Bay will be playing later today.)
Endless chatter of pea-brained annoucers? Constant spaceship graphics? I could go on.
ML/NJ
Yep, so much for that "blowing it open statement". It's blown big time now!
This could be worse than last year.
Not to stir up bad memories but which loss was more painful as a Browns fan? The Drive or The Fumble game?
Actually, that made it even worse, because I think the Browns would have won at least one of them (Giants in '86).
Mike Shanahan isn't quite the same genius without John Elway running his offense.
To me, the Drive by far hurt the most. The Browns had a better team that year and I believe would have won the Super Bowl against the Giants. I was glad to see Shottenheimer and the Chargers lose last night, as I have never forgiven him for his defensive calls against the Broncos in '86.
You think the Browns would have stood a better chance against the '86 Giants than the Redskins the following year?
As a Patriot fan I was still mad at Denver for beating the Pats the previous week so I was pulling for the Browns big time. I still remember the ball being placed at the Broncos two yard line and thinking the game was over. You know the rest.
At least the Vikes have made it to the Super Bowl. Can you believe the Browns, one of the premier teams in the NFL in the '50s and 'early '60s, have NEVER been to a Super Bowl?
When Atlanta tied the game up did you think the Vikes would still pull it out in OT?
Amen.
Nope. I knew the game was lost.
Maybe almost two decades has clouded my hindsight, but yes, I do. There was something special about that '86 team..
By the way, I saw the Pats-Browns game last month in Cleveland. We were so pumped going into the game with Butch Davis gone...then the opening kickoff went all the way for a TD, and it was just like a balloon deflating in the stadium.
I'm pulling for the Pats to go all the way...no way can I root for the Steelers!
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