Nope. I do remember way back when the Kardiac Kids were inflicting their torture on Cleveland's populace, by blowing huge leads in every frigging game, and then fighting for their lives only to eek it out in the last 5 seconds, listening to some station, maybe that was it?
A very memorable game comes to mind, that basically encapsulated the Cleveland experience for me (I think 1980). It was a cold, but pre-winter day, down by the Lake and the Browns were taking on their nemesis, Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh had the upper hand most of the game, but the Kardiac Kids kept us in there, with just enough excitement to cause the usual palpitations, smoothed over by a couple of beers as the wind kicked in late in the 3rd quarter. Then pretty boy Brian Sipe started throwing 'em and we tied it up or were pretty close. Last play....Sipe to the "Wizard of Oz"...Ozzie Newsome (but it mighta been Dave Logan, I'm not sure); a super schweeit pass right into the endzone. Cockcroft in to kick the field goal and it was party time...as the snowflakes began to fall over the otherwise bleak lakefront. Don't know if I could take that type of trauma again, and I stopped pulling for the Browns in ensuing seasons, largely for health reasons. My substitute here is the Baltimore Ravens, although I still think Art Modell is somewhat the slime ball.
On the drive home, I can remember Sipe and Lyle Alzado on the radio pumping the listening audience with their "we're on the way to the Super Bowl" hype. That was the year they ate shit in the last minutes in the AFC final against my most hated team, the Raiders, when Sipe made the most stupid technical play decision in all of pro-football. Enough of that...brings back mixed emotions of the "Mistake on the Lake".
