Was a 10 yr old at the time. A true Raiders fan from the town who thought i was the problem when *we* lost. Only True Raiders fans understand these emotions: Hated playing in Seattle against Zorn and Largent in the King dome when we wore white. Thought 1977 was a great year in my life. Hated the 70s steelers, especially Franco Harris. Loved Matuzak, Branch, Van Engan, Hayes and Hendricks. Knew how to dangle my fingers in a stance like Hayes before the play started. Taped my fingers like Balitnicof. Hated John Jefferson and Kelen Winslow. Thought the Coliseum was special and the Raiders fans were family, White and Black although i grew up in a Panther neighborhood. Asked my 4th grade teacher not to give me homework because of the Monday Denver game. 😂Thought Al Davis was mafia with the white or black athletic suits, shades, slicked back hair, and smoky voice. Loved Kenny King's run in the 1981 SB and this play against Sipe and Newsome. One of the best days of my young life... Miss the *Oakland* Raiders...
Don Criqui, Jim Simpson, Dick Enberg, Merlin Olsen and Charlie Jones. They were ALL great, superb NBC broadcasters back in the day. I agree they were all voices from my youth.
I miss those voices, i miss NBC broadcast double headers the early game would be my Steelers and then the 4:00 usually weat coast game. The Raiders,Broncos, sometimes the Chargers. I eventually became a secondary fan of many of these teams, especially Air Corayell & that vaunted Chargers offense. Those were great broadcasts, Bob Costas & the juice back in the studio. Good stuff!
CB Clarence Scott and K Don Cockcroft are the only Browns players on this 1980 team to be on the Browns since 1971. Cockcroft actually has been in Cleveland since 1968, this was his last game played in the NFL.
Mike Davis was the equivalent of Clarence Davis, neither had good hands but Clarence came up with the winning catch in the Sea of hands, Mike Davis here.
Strang ending to a strange game. The raiders basically had three drives all game. They scored TDS on two. The browns had like seven good drives. Two FG, 1 TD, two missed FG, two INT. Browns dominated most of the game. In the end Newsome was double covered but when sipe threw the ball Davis was briefly shielded by #44. Sipe never saw him.
I live in the Buffalo area, i do remember watching this on TV, it was a few degrees warmer, but not much, one of those days you just don't leave the house.
I would love to see a cleaner video of this game. I wonder if it looked this bad back in 1980. I watched it live in 1980, and the cold definitely made it look different.
My brother and I had season tickets in 1980. I remember the final home game (Jets) was in early December and it was well over 50 degrees. I remember that it was so cold just standing in that cold. The walk back to our car up E.9th was actually quite a bit warmer. By walking we were actually able to warm our feet up a little. You talk about being depressed. The first 6 months of 1981, I saw the Browns get beat, my H.S. team got beat in the state semifinals. The following April I joined the USAF and in June I married my H.S. sweetheart. Yes, I had a little change in my life.
@@BeenTooTired My wording was bad. I meant to state that the LAST home game that year (Jets), it was 50 degrees. I then went back to talking about walking back to our car AFTER the Raider loss. Anyway, that was a lifetime ago.
@@BeenTooTired Just want to say that Shea Stadium was always cold and damp in the Winter. Always a wind blowing too. We would boost everyone in the group up the wall to get in and the last guy slipped the gate attendant some $$, forget how much, to get in!
"Things seem to to right in the final 2 minutes in Cleveland Stadium.." Boy did THAT ever end, Mr. Brodie! I remember feeling sorry for the Browns. 3 hours later, my Falcons gave up 20 points in the 4th quarter to the Cowboys. I said to myself - that's the last time I ever feel sorry for another team! The collapse against the Cowboys was 1 point WORSE than the collapse against the Patriots.
my favorite was Curt Gowdy. he commentated the sea of hands game and the game that the raiders ended the dolphins winning streak that went back to their perfect season. the raiders won 12-7 on George Blanda's 4 field goals.
WOW...Thanks so much for posting this classic frozen AFC championship battle! I was 22 when this game aired. Watching this 40 years later brings back some great memories of growing up an Oakland Raiders fan. We fans in the San Francisco Bay Area breathed a sigh of relief when Mike Davis intercepted Sipe's pass in the end zone (man that was close). Raiders went on to beat the San Diego Chargers 34-27 and then dominate the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 15 with a score of 27-10. This 1980 Raiders team led by Jim Plunkett was the first wild card team to win a Super Bowl. Again, thanks for this post.
As a kid being a browns fan, the ending sucked for me. After this game, I was rooting for the Raiders. Thought it would be fun to see Commisioner Rozelle hand the trophey to Al Davis after all his verbal shots against him.
This was the AFC divisional round...I was there 18years old .......Raiders won then played ..... the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship game at Jack Murphy Stadium
@@jimmercuri4762try being a Jets fan. 3rd and 17, up 10 at the Mistake by the Lake, Gastineau roughing the passer against Kosar, the rest is painful history
Yes, I remember. Feel your pain on that loss. Thought the game was over when McNeil scored. Epic collapse with Gastineau's bone-headed penalty.@@painless465
@@thefrase7884 Maybe your right, with Marcus, Alzado & Haynes! They won their division in 83. But the 80 season was so magical! For Plunket, Millen, being the 1st wild card to win a Superbowl! 🏴☠️ Note: NFL was still an honest game back then! Before all this ratings💲control BS of the NFL games now?
Before there was 8 million commercials constantly interrupting the game. I swear modern nfl is just about unwatchable because of constant long commercials
The Browns got criticized for throwing to the end zone at the end, but as Criqui and Brodie pointed out, Cockroft missed two FGs and a PAT in that end of the stadium. The Browns really lost because they squandered too many opportunities and the Raiders didn’t.
can see why they lost confidence in kicking, but at the same time Cockroft was experienced and you have to be ready to give him another chance. Throwing into the endzone is ok, just throw it out the back if he’s not wide open. Others here point out that sipe didn’t see the defender. If that’s because of Sipe’s height then again throw it out the end zone. In the first quarter sipe makes a dumb pass to hill into double coverage that hit the under-defender right in the face mask as he turned. had the LB been looking it was an easy INT. But Sipe follows it up on next play with an INT directly into the hands of Hates. it wasn’t close, very similar to the did not see defender excuse on the last drive. sipe had a terrible day when it counted, and I agree with your comments, too, that the Browns still could have won that game. It was a team loss for sure. Man, the raiders were so incredibly lucky, they didn’t even deserve to advance in te AFC playoffs had the Browns, on several occasions, just made a decent play.
@@scottkalinowski7185 2002 Play Offs, all Browns needed was a 1st down to end the game, Northcutt dropped an easy ball for the 1st allowing the Steelers 1 more drive to win the game
42:46 Back when you could pay $.50 to call a 900 number to get the latest sports scores. Crazy thing was, as the jingle in this commercial started, I remembered the phone number before they showed it. The power of setting something to music.
I became a Browns fan across he pond in '84. I had to endure the Drive and the Fumble before I found out about Red Right 88🙄 The current team seems to have something of the Kardiac Kids about them.
Cleveland was the dominant team most of the day but the Raiders got breaks & made critical plays at critical times. Jumped on the chargers & Eagles the same way. Defense & ST’s. Plunkett should be in the HOF
@@thefrase7884Plunkett is better than Eli Manning. Even that Manning will be in the HOF. Stabler is in the HOF. Plunkett was a better Raider than him. Bob Griese is in the HOF. All he did in his prime was handoff to those 3 great running backs
Man o man...any kind of FG kicking whatsoever likely wins this game for Cleveland. That's got to be painful for the Browns fans to stomach. Matt Bahr would be the kicker the following year. Could of used him in this game. Cockcroft and Mosely had to be the last of the straight line kickers in the league in 1980..ugh
We will never know but Paul McDonald was a big part of the problem. He had gloves on and was not spinning the ball off the laces on some of those holds. He even bobbled one of them.
You can’t cash in on your opportunities then you don’t deserve to win. Cockcroft was terrible. These garbage teams that win regular season games by consistently pulling a rabbit out of the hat will be one and done always in the postseason
@@thefrase7884 if you are garbage you don’t win all those games, they don’t call you the cardiacs kids, Sipe had a great year losing this doesn’t make him nor the team garbage
Great broadcasting team, the classic NBC opening music @ 45:45. Would've been perfect if they had the NFL Live pregame instead of Cleveland hometown version. Thanks for posting these classic games
"Would've been perfect if they had the NFL Live pregame" I take it you mean NFL '80 (NBC then for NFL/AFC studio coverage had it titled as NFL+ the season they were covering [here, it was NFL '80 because this was the playoff coverage for the 1980 season]; this format lasted through the 1986 season, and then it became NFL Live in 1987).
@@bmasters1981I was watching this @ work and saw the Cleve opening for 15 min and then would skip ahead. Landed on the Silent movie skit and then the Jim Brown one that wasn't voiced by NBC. Assumed it was still the Cleve pregame. Found 1Q and then went backward til heard the great Don Criqui intro. Any other time I watched this, I would just jump ahead to 45 min. What a dumbass I am! Loved Bryant Gumbel on pregame in those days. Costas came in and was always trying to be a comedian. Nice pregame pick by the Ax.
Do you have the Raiders' Super Bowl win against Philly? I'd love to see the post game interview of the ultra-uptight Dick Vermeil eating a healthy slice of crow.
@@stevebrookes4514 Don't agree. Cleveland would not have beaten Philly nor would have SD. SD would have been a revenge game for the Eagles as they played during the regular season in SD with a final score 22-21 SD as the winner. The Eagles were also favored by 3.5 points over the Raiders in the Super Bowl.
@@acesn8s Same here. I soooo wanted the Championship Games to be Browns-Chargers & Falcons-Eagles. Would've guaranteed a first-time Super Bowl winner. May have cost Dan Fouts a SB ring.
Sipe Dropped back way to far, we were on the 13 - he threw form the 23 making it a really difficult play in the wind. should of ran the ball with 1 timeout and 56 sec left. bad throw, bad coaching decision.
@1:13:40 ‘Both these quarterbacks have fired the ball very well.”. declares Brodie. What has he been watching? Both QBs totally suck so far, and he declares this after Plunkett overthrows Branch. Was he watching the previousl Browns’ drive or was he in the restroom? On that drive, sipe badly underthrows Hill to the point where it hit the Raiders LB right in the facemask as he looks back. had the LB turned earlier it was an easy INT. Not to be ut done, on the 3rd down play, Sipe throws directly into the hands of Hayes for an INT. that was a terrible decision to throw the ball, although Sipe had some heat on it. come on Brodie, both QBs suck at this point.
When, not if, we win out. We'll be higher than 8. MIC, OSU, & MIC still have to play each other. OU & TX will play again. FSU will play UNC in the ACC CH. UGA will have 1 loss. We'll be top 4, assuming we win out & the CH game. B1G CH, OU if they win out, ACC CH, & us. If WAS wins out then we could have an issue. I don't believe all of those teams will win out. I don't think we've ever had 4 undefeated teams in before. WAS has to play Utah, USC, ORSU, & then ORE neutral site. No way they're winning out. OU is in. OSU or MIC in FSU in(They still have to beat FLA on the road & UNC). I don't think there will be more then 2 undefeated teams. If we go 10-2, there's no way we're in the playoffs. I predicted during summer. 5-0 heading into LSU. 10-2. I'm not wavering from that except I think we might go 11-1. Nobody believed me that this team is for real, & Brady Cook is a good QB. MIZ!
I really hope that John Brodie wasn't a dick in the huddle like he was on TV. Dude !! C'mon man !! Stop telling players what they should be doing all the time. I know this is 40 some years late, but still dude, CHILL !!
I love Brain Sipe, but he had a horrible game. 2 lost fumbles and three interceptions. One of those interceptions didn't matter ,because it was a hell Mary that was last play of the half.
@@KALIMAN-jl8de Dude those numbers are horrible. I don't care if it's the 1985 Bears. Sipe stunk it up that day. He led his team to all of six points(the defense scored their lone touchdown)
Cockcroft lost this game for the Browns. He was hurt was just a liability for the Browns in this game. Getting his extra point blocked and missing two others. I can understand why Sipe wanted one more throw because they didn't trust the kicker. This would be Cockcroft's last game as a pro.
Don Cockcroft had a horrible holder named Paul McDonald. He was not a good NFL QB or holder for this game. The Raiders holder had one glove on and one bare hand. Cockroft for the season was 16 for 26 on FGs. He was a great kicker and won alot of games for the Browns. Sipe had a bad game. Anyways, without Sipe or Cockroft the Browns would not have made the playoffs.
The visuals, the opening, the music, it doesn't get any better than this!
Was a 10 yr old at the time. A true Raiders fan from the town who thought i was the problem when *we* lost. Only True Raiders fans understand these emotions:
Hated playing in Seattle against Zorn and Largent in the King dome when we wore white. Thought 1977 was a great year in my life. Hated the 70s steelers, especially Franco Harris. Loved Matuzak, Branch, Van Engan, Hayes and Hendricks. Knew how to dangle my fingers in a stance like Hayes before the play started. Taped my fingers like Balitnicof. Hated John Jefferson and Kelen Winslow.
Thought the Coliseum was special and the Raiders fans were family, White and Black although i grew up in a Panther neighborhood. Asked my 4th grade teacher not to give me homework because of the Monday Denver game. 😂Thought Al Davis was mafia with the white or black athletic suits, shades, slicked back hair, and smoky voice.
Loved Kenny King's run in the 1981 SB and this play against Sipe and Newsome. One of the best days of my young life...
Miss the *Oakland* Raiders...
Wow !! i was in the 6th grade when i Watched this in January 1981
Don Criqui, Jim Simpson, Dick Enberg, Merlin Olsen and Charlie Jones. They were ALL great, superb NBC broadcasters back in the day. I agree they were all voices from my youth.
Pppp
Don’t forget Al DeRogatis.
I miss those voices, i miss NBC broadcast double headers the early game would be my Steelers and then the 4:00 usually weat coast game. The Raiders,Broncos, sometimes the Chargers. I eventually became a secondary fan of many of these teams, especially Air Corayell & that vaunted Chargers offense. Those were great broadcasts, Bob Costas & the juice back in the studio. Good stuff!
Merlin Olsen never really got his due credit as an announcer... overshadowed by Madden.
Thank you for posting. The record/video quality is the best I've seen of this game.
Thanks for showing this terrific game.
Good classic NFL.thanks.
Love the intro music and old commercials
CB Clarence Scott and K Don Cockcroft are the only Browns players on this 1980 team to be on the Browns since 1971. Cockcroft actually has been in Cleveland since 1968, this was his last game played in the NFL.
Doug Dickenson and Charlie Hall were drafted in 1971 and played that season.
Mike Davis was the equivalent of Clarence Davis, neither had good hands but Clarence came up with the winning catch in the Sea of hands, Mike Davis here.
An epic Raiders vs Browns game! I really miss those days! Thank you!
As a baby boomer, it’s always great to rewatch these old games...
As a Gen Xer, I concur
Strang ending to a strange game. The raiders basically had three drives all game. They scored TDS on two. The browns had like seven good drives. Two FG, 1 TD, two missed FG, two INT. Browns dominated most of the game. In the end Newsome was double covered but when sipe threw the ball Davis was briefly shielded by #44. Sipe never saw him.
As Gene Upshaw often said "Mike Davis couldn't catch a cold barefoot in Alaska". But he made the catch of his life on this day.
@jonburrows8602,
Yup... damn it.
That’s probably true because colds aren’t caused by air temperature. They are caused by a virus. So Upshaw was actually right about that
When the Raiders were the Raiders.
The Raiders were magical back in these days.
Tremendous game - what the NFL should be. Don C & John B. fantastic. Thank you!
I live in the Buffalo area, i do remember watching this on TV, it was a few degrees warmer, but not much, one of those days you just don't leave the house.
Don Crique…for my money…the very best of all time.
I’m loving all these old commercials
The Cowboys beat the Falcons that same afternoon in a thriller, the raiders braved the elements in cleveland and won a thriller.
Really?
yeah really@@thefrase7884
Thank you for posting this. This video brings back many memories of my youth, also thanks for including those old commercials in the video!
What a heart breaker i remember this i was jumping like a wild man Raiders win! on our way to win the Super Bowl
RN4L
I would love to see a cleaner video of this game. I wonder if it looked this bad back in 1980. I watched it live in 1980, and the cold definitely made it look different.
My brother and I had season tickets in 1980. I remember the final home game (Jets) was in early December and it was well over 50 degrees. I remember that it was so cold just standing in that cold. The walk back to our car up E.9th was actually quite a bit warmer. By walking we were actually able to warm our feet up a little. You talk about being depressed. The first 6 months of 1981, I saw the Browns get beat, my H.S. team got beat in the state semifinals. The following April I joined the USAF and in June I married my H.S. sweetheart. Yes, I had a little change in my life.
Thank you!🇺🇸✈
Have a great Air Force Day!!
You think 50 degrees is cold? Lol😂 are you from South Florida or somethig
@@BeenTooTired My wording was bad. I meant to state that the LAST home game that year (Jets), it was 50 degrees. I then went back to talking about walking back to our car AFTER the Raider loss. Anyway, that was a lifetime ago.
@@BeenTooTired Just want to say that Shea Stadium was always cold and damp in the Winter. Always a wind blowing too. We would boost everyone in the group up the wall to get in and the last guy slipped the gate attendant some $$, forget how much, to get in!
"Things seem to to right in the final 2 minutes in Cleveland Stadium.." Boy did THAT ever end, Mr. Brodie! I remember feeling sorry for the Browns. 3 hours later, my Falcons gave up 20 points in the 4th quarter to the Cowboys. I said to myself - that's the last time I ever feel sorry for another team! The collapse against the Cowboys was 1 point WORSE than the collapse against the Patriots.
Poor Brian Sipe. Oh my that really hurt at the end of the game
This is 2021 going on 2022 and I still have nightmares of this game.
Yep
The damn Stickum interception…
Me too . As well as Kurt Gowdy.and don’t forget Charlie Jones on NBC. I was born 1/23/1963
my favorite was Curt Gowdy. he commentated the sea of hands game and the game that the raiders ended the dolphins winning streak that went back to their perfect season. the raiders won 12-7 on George Blanda's 4 field goals.
Best Era for Uniforms
WOW...Thanks so much for posting this classic frozen AFC championship battle! I was 22 when this game aired. Watching this 40 years later brings back some great memories of growing up an Oakland Raiders fan. We fans in the San Francisco Bay Area breathed a sigh of relief when Mike Davis intercepted Sipe's pass in the end zone (man that was close). Raiders went on to beat the San Diego Chargers 34-27 and then dominate the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 15 with a score of 27-10. This 1980 Raiders team led by Jim Plunkett was the first wild card team to win a Super Bowl. Again, thanks for this post.
As a kid being a browns fan, the ending sucked for me. After this game, I was rooting for the Raiders. Thought it would be fun to see Commisioner Rozelle hand the trophey to Al Davis after all his verbal shots against him.
This was the AFC divisional round...I was there 18years old .......Raiders won then played ..... the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship game at Jack Murphy Stadium
@@jimmercuri4762try being a Jets fan. 3rd and 17, up 10 at the Mistake by the Lake, Gastineau roughing the passer against Kosar, the rest is painful history
Yes, I remember. Feel your pain on that loss. Thought the game was over when McNeil scored. Epic collapse with Gastineau's bone-headed penalty.@@painless465
Raiders Best season ever! Matt Millen, Clay Matthews, 1st & 3rd yr Line Backers, Great Game? 37° below zero!
I’d say 1983 is their best season ever
@@thefrase7884 Maybe your right, with Marcus, Alzado & Haynes! They won their division in 83. But the 80 season was so magical! For Plunket, Millen, being the 1st wild card to win a Superbowl! 🏴☠️ Note: NFL was still an honest game back then! Before all this ratings💲control BS of the NFL games now?
@@thefrase7884 agreed!
Seeing Lyle Azado playing for the browns against his future team then moving to LA and winning a superbowl 3 years later.
Bruce jenner on the commerical i mean catlyn or whatever her name is now🤣🤣
Before there was 8 million commercials constantly interrupting the game. I swear modern nfl is just about unwatchable because of constant long commercials
The Browns got criticized for throwing to the end zone at the end, but as Criqui and Brodie pointed out, Cockroft missed two FGs and a PAT in that end of the stadium. The Browns really lost because they squandered too many opportunities and the Raiders didn’t.
can see why they lost confidence in kicking, but at the same time Cockroft was experienced and you have to be ready to give him another chance. Throwing into the endzone is ok, just throw it out the back if he’s not wide open. Others here point out that sipe didn’t see the defender. If that’s because of Sipe’s height then again throw it out the end zone. In the first quarter sipe makes a dumb pass to hill into double coverage that hit the under-defender right in the face mask as he turned. had the LB been looking it was an easy INT. But Sipe follows it up on next play with an INT directly into the hands of Hates. it wasn’t close, very similar to the did not see defender excuse on the last drive. sipe had a terrible day when it counted, and I agree with your comments, too, that the Browns still could have won that game. It was a team loss for sure. Man, the raiders were so incredibly lucky, they didn’t even deserve to advance in te AFC playoffs had the Browns, on several occasions, just made a decent play.
Don Criqui and John Brodie were great together. Sounds from my youth.
Agreed Don is perhaps the Most underrated broadcaster ever!
My favorite Don Criqui long ball. 😂
Don Criqui was one of the best did lots of browns great game great memories
NBC had many great commentators back then: Criqui/Brodie, Costas/Trumpy, and my favorite Enberg/Olsen.
I was just thinking that, thanks my brother
So today I've watched
Red Right 88
The Drive
The Fumble
The Drop
Glutton for punishment
the Drop?
@@scottkalinowski7185 2002 Play Offs, all Browns needed was a 1st down to end the game, Northcutt dropped an easy ball for the 1st allowing the Steelers 1 more drive to win the game
The fumble, the drive, but before all that the pick!
Red Right 88 was the infamous play
was searching the comments to see if anybody had identified this as the red right 88 disaster. yeah pretty sure thats the call for the interception
42:46 Back when you could pay $.50 to call a 900 number to get the latest sports scores. Crazy thing was, as the jingle in this commercial started, I remembered the phone number before they showed it. The power of setting something to music.
I think I recognize the celebrity pitchman at the end.
I became a Browns fan across he pond in '84. I had to endure the Drive and the Fumble before I found out about Red Right 88🙄 The current team seems to have something of the Kardiac Kids about them.
Yeah now that they have a good, proven QB in Joe Flacco and not some way over rated felon...
@@bultacowally Indeed. If we were to win anything with the other guy it would always be tainted IMO.
Cleveland was the dominant team most of the day but the Raiders got breaks & made critical plays at critical times. Jumped on the chargers & Eagles the same way. Defense & ST’s. Plunkett should be in the HOF
Plunkett is nowhere near HOF material
@@thefrase7884Plunkett is better than Eli Manning. Even that Manning will be in the HOF. Stabler is in the HOF. Plunkett was a better Raider than him. Bob Griese is in the HOF. All he did in his prime was handoff to those 3 great running backs
Heisman Winner & Super Bowl Champ(2) and went to a public H.S..
@@707Southpaw2x superbowl champion,superbowl mvp,NFL comeback player of the year
@@thefrase7884 if Lynn Swann is in with his few numbers.....
good ole red right 88. heartbreaker
Criqui the Best ever
Man o man...any kind of FG kicking whatsoever likely wins this game for Cleveland. That's got to be painful for the Browns fans to stomach. Matt Bahr would be the kicker the following year. Could of used him in this game. Cockcroft and Mosely had to be the last of the straight line kickers in the league in 1980..ugh
notice the lack of flags in the older games?
As long as sipe doesnt throw any interceptions in a big spot late in the game I think the browns win on a late field goal
Not if Cockcroft is attempting it
We will never know but Paul McDonald was a big part of the problem. He had gloves on and was not spinning the ball off the laces on some of those holds. He even bobbled one of them.
Cockcroft was missing everything - they felt they had to go for it
Would love to see SB 15 again. The Whole game
Where the hell was Sipe throwing it?!?! Newsome is double covered.
Made no sense to throw the ball at that point. Should of ran it. Nevertheless, terrible throw by Sipe.
@@nymike06 ...Ran it? Should of gone for the higher percentage of success and kicked the field goal.
@@joeyrincones9308the wind and cold was brutal that day
@@joeyrincones9308 they had already missed two. FGs and two XPs. That’s why Cleveland went for the TD.
Fans need to stop blaming the play "Red Right 88" & blame the QB with the errant throw.
Browns blew this game! Plain & simple! I hadn’t watched this in years but I never realized how many opportunities they miscued on.
True. It’s unbelievable. This is a game that should’ve been won way before Red Right 88 was called. Oh well. Still waiting on next year.
You can’t cash in on your opportunities then you don’t deserve to win. Cockcroft was terrible. These garbage teams that win regular season games by consistently pulling a rabbit out of the hat will be one and done always in the postseason
@@thefrase7884 if you are garbage you don’t win all those games, they don’t call you the cardiacs kids, Sipe had a great year losing this doesn’t make him nor the team garbage
Gave it away
I remember the 1980 raiders and browns game dad
This is Browns Therapy
CLEVELAND HEARTBREAKERS IS WHAT THIS TEAM/ORGANISATION SHOULD BE CALLED!! THE DRIVE...THE FUMBLE!! THE RELOCATION!!
I have been calling the "New Cleveland Browns" the Cleveland Clowns.
I fell asleep watching an NFL Throwback vid about who would be the MVP in past seasons if QBs didn’t exist and somehow I woke up to this.
Those fans hitting the flask at halftime! LOL!
Great broadcasting team, the classic NBC opening music @ 45:45. Would've been perfect if they had the NFL Live pregame instead of Cleveland hometown version. Thanks for posting these classic games
"Would've been perfect if they had the NFL Live pregame"
I take it you mean NFL '80 (NBC then for NFL/AFC studio coverage had it titled as NFL+ the season they were covering [here, it was NFL '80 because this was the playoff coverage for the 1980 season]; this format lasted through the 1986 season, and then it became NFL Live in 1987).
@@bmasters1981I was watching this @ work and saw the Cleve opening for 15 min and then would skip ahead. Landed on the Silent movie skit and then the Jim Brown one that wasn't voiced by NBC. Assumed it was still the Cleve pregame. Found 1Q and then went backward til heard the great Don Criqui intro. Any other time I watched this, I would just jump ahead to 45 min. What a dumbass I am! Loved Bryant Gumbel on pregame in those days. Costas came in and was always trying to be a comedian. Nice pregame pick by the Ax.
@@mickeylynch8982 Thanks for that response! I neglected to mention that NFL '80 w/Bryant Gumbel started at the 19:28 mark of this video.
Love these old games from my youth. The best announcers and classic commercials. 👍
@@mickeylynch8982 Me likewise!
24:48 CBS used this music for their NASCAR coverage during the 80s.
Classic year 📺🏈⭐️ I was 17
Do you have the Raiders' Super Bowl win against Philly? I'd love to see the post game interview of the ultra-uptight Dick Vermeil eating a healthy slice of crow.
@1:46:48…#53 for the Browns making the tackle..became a coaching legend but in 1980, just a backup linebacker,…
That is why Browns have never won a big one. Royal dissapointments. Whether it be Brian or Bernie. Sam or Marty.
This was the year that the Oilers disappointed in a major way. At least the Browns could win AFC central titles, and got to 3 AFC championships.
Just for fun…can anyone name all 5 of the legendary Celtic players in the Lite Beer commercial?
Wow! Imagine if Cleveland won this game. Who wins the Super Bowl that season instead of the Oakland Raiders?
imo SanDiego but i think either them or the browns would also have beaten philly. what do u think
@@stevebrookes4514 Don't agree. Cleveland would not have beaten Philly nor would have SD. SD would have been a revenge game for the Eagles as they played during the regular season in SD with a final score 22-21 SD as the winner. The Eagles were also favored by 3.5 points over the Raiders in the Super Bowl.
Philly or San Diego
Not Cleveland 😅
They didn't even cover the field. Its scraped but that makes it worse... the commercials are the best thing...
Sipe, Cockroft and Rutgiliano really bit the big one. How manu Superbowls Browns?
I totally agree 💯
raiders knew how to pull it off
1 of 2 very, very good games that day.
I think Atlanta v Dallas was after this.
@@Biggdoom344 Yes! Neither game had the outcome I wanted :(
@@acesn8s Same here. I soooo wanted the Championship Games to be Browns-Chargers & Falcons-Eagles. Would've guaranteed a first-time Super Bowl winner. May have cost Dan Fouts a SB ring.
Sipe Dropped back way to far, we were on the 13 - he threw form the 23 making it a really difficult play in the wind. should of ran the ball with 1 timeout and 56 sec left. bad throw, bad coaching decision.
No way Cockcroft was hitting a fg from anywhere. No choice than to throw
Just win baby!!
So, thr graphic said Branch was 25, in 1980, and that was his 9th year in the league?
I need that prigram 😂
They made the game interesting nowadays these commenters put you too sleep
If only Don Concroft had been allowed to kick that game winning field goal.
And he would have missed it just like he did two previous FG tries as well as an extra point attempt.
@@jonburrows8602 Maybe he was due to finally put it through between the uprights?
The call by Charlie Jones would've been wide right
@@mongoslade277 OK, that comment was a good one.
2023, and I'm still pissed, KICK THE F N FIELD GOAL!! 😤
Placeholders: 38:42, 39:55, 41:29, 43:46, 45:46, 2:54:53, 3:22:30, 3:24:50, 3:29:07
Alzado should never have left DEN. 1 think 0ak will run the table 'til the season ends.
1:27:13 "heck of a play teddy" -Millen
Lol
Heavy
The first kick missed was the weather the second was totally on the bum kicker
Should have ran the ball and kick the FG they had 2 timeouts...Some coaches are there own worst enemy.
2019....browns and indians have a combined 120 years without a championship!lolololololo
Cleveland Browns (aka the Baltimore Ravens)
Red right 88. Oh no!!!
Whaddya expect? It's the Browns.
Just kick the field goal.
@1:13:40 ‘Both these quarterbacks have fired the ball very well.”. declares Brodie. What has he been watching? Both QBs totally suck so far, and he declares this after Plunkett overthrows Branch. Was he watching the previousl Browns’ drive or was he in the restroom? On that drive, sipe badly underthrows Hill to the point where it hit the Raiders LB right in the facemask as he looks back. had the LB turned earlier it was an easy INT. Not to be ut done, on the 3rd down play, Sipe throws directly into the hands of Hayes for an INT. that was a terrible decision to throw the ball, although Sipe had some heat on it. come on Brodie, both QBs suck at this point.
When, not if, we win out. We'll be higher than 8.
MIC, OSU, & MIC still have to play each other. OU & TX will play again. FSU will play UNC in the ACC CH. UGA will have 1 loss. We'll be top 4, assuming we win out & the CH game. B1G CH, OU if they win out, ACC CH, & us. If WAS wins out then we could have an issue. I don't believe all of those teams will win out.
I don't think we've ever had 4 undefeated teams in before.
WAS has to play Utah, USC, ORSU, & then ORE neutral site. No way they're winning out.
OU is in.
OSU or MIC in
FSU in(They still have to beat FLA on the road & UNC).
I don't think there will be more then 2 undefeated teams.
If we go 10-2, there's no way we're in the playoffs.
I predicted during summer. 5-0 heading into LSU. 10-2. I'm not wavering from that except I think we might go 11-1. Nobody believed me that this team is for real, & Brady Cook is a good QB.
MIZ!
I really hope that John Brodie wasn't a dick in the huddle like he was on TV. Dude !! C'mon man !! Stop telling players what they should be doing all the time. I know this is 40 some years late, but still dude, CHILL !!
the hard luck cleveland browns
To be fair... over half the sec cant win 6 games in the sec...
3:29:16 is what you’re here for.
2:10:16 is awesome lol
1:47:23
Brian Sipe was superb; unfortunately two missed field goals, a missed extra point and a botched field goal attempt doomed the Browns on this day.
Sipe was terrible. 13-40, 183 yards and 3 interceptions is hardly superb.
I love Brain Sipe, but he had a horrible game. 2 lost fumbles and three interceptions. One of those interceptions didn't matter ,because it was a hell Mary that was last play of the half.
@@markminter6312 point taken... but considering their opponents...he wasn't that bad.
@@KALIMAN-jl8de Dude those numbers are horrible. I don't care if it's the 1985 Bears. Sipe stunk it up that day. He led his team to all of six points(the defense scored their lone touchdown)
@@markminter6312 ok...I guess you're right.
Choke.
Red Right 88.
Cockcroft lost this game for the Browns. He was hurt was just a liability for the Browns in this game. Getting his extra point blocked and missing two others. I can understand why Sipe wanted one more throw because they didn't trust the kicker. This would be Cockcroft's last game as a pro.
I always wondered why they didn’t have another option than Cockcroft. He was terrible
Don Cockcroft had a horrible holder named Paul McDonald. He was not a good NFL QB or holder for this game. The Raiders holder had one glove on and one bare hand. Cockroft for the season was 16 for 26 on FGs. He was a great kicker and won alot of games for the Browns. Sipe had a bad game. Anyways, without Sipe or Cockroft the Browns would not have made the playoffs.
@@thefrase7884 He was a great kicker. he was hurt his last year. He held the 2nd longest FG of 60 yards for a while.