r/Browns • u/foxmag86 • May 30 '25
Highlights What's your first Browns memory? Here's mine: Browns stop the Cowboys at the goal line in a 1994 victory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbhtOX8UT0I9
u/MHanky May 30 '25
Belichick hugging saban at the end is wild.
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u/bac5665 May 30 '25
Yeah, that's just so crazy to see, knowing where both of them go in their careers.
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u/MJ_Brutus May 30 '25
Losing 6-2 to the Cowboys. First Browns game I watched on TV. Had to be the 60’s. Bill Nelson was QB I think.
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u/foxmag86 May 30 '25
I would've been 8 years old at this time. I have vivid memories of my whole family yelling and screaming when Novacek got stopped.
I do recall singing the Bernie Bernie song when I was 5 or 6 years old...but in terms of an actual game, this is the first one that I really remember.
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u/Xkr2011 May 30 '25
Earliest memory would probably be watching Leroy Kelly or seeing Bill Nelson at Shaker medical center, whichever came first. I don’t remember seeing Frank Ryan play but I distinctly recall one of my elementary school teachers (a nun) telling us Ryan had a PhD in mathematics.
Now you damn kids get off my lawn!
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u/DUNG_INSPECTOR May 30 '25
Probably the Drive. I was about 7, and I can just remember the mood at the watch party my parents took me to just going down hard and fast.
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u/Maximum_Bandicoot_94 May 30 '25
Same here. So upset I went behind the TV, got some legos to play with and sobbed to myself.
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u/nofateeric May 30 '25
Those uniforms were fucking gorgeous.
My first Browns memory wasn't a game but a thing.
When I was 6 my dad and I were about to rake leaves in the yard and my mom got us matching Browns toboggans. Our last name is Brown so it took me a second to realize it was the team and not some official family hats she had made.
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u/RepresentativeTrue60 May 30 '25
As a teen I put a hole in my basement ceiling with excitement when I knew we were good enough to beat the cowboys, it was this game. So yeah great memory. I can still picture the busted part of the ceiling.
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u/browns_fan84 May 30 '25 edited May 30 '25
This is a fantastic one! Still love watching the end of this. I remember watching it with my brother and when Novacek fell down counting down the clock and yelling when they won. I remember meeting my dad at the back door, he wasn't home that day for reasons I have long forgotten, and he was just as excited as I was when I told him the final score. There was a school mate of mine who was a huge Dallas fan so that Monday was fantastic to be able to enjoy it more.
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u/Lilfrankieeinstein May 30 '25
Watching some random early 80s mud-a-thon on TV at my grandfather’s house. I could have easily forsaken the Browns in my youth being raised in the South, but going up there every other winter for Christmas break was a highlight of my youth and I fell in love with the Browns before I was old enough to know better.
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u/Chief_Wahoo_Lives May 30 '25
Turkey Jones pile driving Bradshaw. He still hasn't recovered.
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u/tito13kfm May 31 '25
I saw an interview with Bradshaw and they asked him "do you remember when Turkey Jones piledrove you into the ground" and he just said "No" in a completely serious tone.
I really think it hurt him bad.
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u/YoungLangston May 31 '25
1999 comeback. I was 8, and excited. My dad drove me to the where they were building the stadium one summer. All I kept thinking was, FINALLY!
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u/munistadium May 30 '25
I remember my parents talking when Sam Rutligiano got fired. That was the first time I remember. My dad took me to the Oilers game a little later that year.
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u/drink-beer-and-fight May 30 '25
Watching the Kardiak Kids on the TV room at my grandparents house with my cousins.
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u/Plane-Fan9006 May 30 '25
Bernie's rookie season in 1985. Finished .500 at 8 and 8 but made me know we were coming....86 and 87 were magical. I can still here Don Criqui and or "oh my"s of Dick Enberg...
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u/s_360 May 30 '25
The drive. My parents had a playoff party. I was 4. I remember they had dog bone shaped cookies and everyone being disappointed. Cookies were good though.
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u/h3rp3r May 30 '25
Don't remember much of the season, started watching the games just so I could hangout with Dad. But I remember consoling him when he cried after The Fumble. I told him it'd be OK, there will be another game next week.
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u/MrTreeWizard May 30 '25
Pepper Johnson was my favorite player as a kid haha my first memories are of rooting for the dude with a cool name
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u/SelfCuriousness May 30 '25
My first foggy memory was going in person to a Bengals game at old Riverfront Stadium in the early 80s with me dad. I would’ve been 5 or 6, I know there was a Pruitt in the backfield but can’t remember which one. It was cold as balls, I was in a snow suit and drank copious amounts of hot chocolate and fell in love with the whole spectacle.
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u/Smilner69 May 30 '25
Not necessarily one moment but the 2009 season. Few buddies and me just moved into a crappy little house in our mid 20s and really got into bbq and cooking for the games (lot of beer drinking too). Might have only been a 5-11 season but boy did we have a good time
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u/foxmag86 May 31 '25
Interesting. So you just became a fan in your mid 20s? Just wasn’t interested in football before that?
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u/Derek-Onions May 30 '25
Dwayne Rudd taking his helmet off too soon and losing us the game
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u/foxmag86 May 31 '25
That’s one of the top 10, or maybe even top 5, most brutal losses since I’ve been a fan.
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u/tidho May 30 '25
I'm old. Anyway good to see Eric Turner, one of my favorite ever Browns. I don't know for sure what my first memory of the Browns is. There's an infamous moment that I know I saw... have you heard of Amhad Rashad?
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u/jebei May 30 '25
I have a lot of vague memories watching the browns with my grandfather and seeing teams moving back and forth but my first distinct memory is seeing Turkey Joe piledrive Terry Bradshaw’s head into the turf. That was something not easily forgotten, even by a six year old.
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u/carlj1975 May 30 '25
My Dad and Uncle going to the Red Right 88 game and coming home disappointed.
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u/El_Mec May 30 '25
1986 AFC championship game against Denver….. The Drive. Ruined my childhood at age 9
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u/5255clone SUPERBOWL CHAMPION ELITE DRAGON JOE FLACCO May 30 '25
The year we beat the Saints right after they won the superbowl was it for me.
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u/foxmag86 May 31 '25
Was that the game where we ran two or three awesome special teams plays? A fake punt and also a trick play on a kick return.
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u/5255clone SUPERBOWL CHAMPION ELITE DRAGON JOE FLACCO May 31 '25
I think so. I just remember watching the tail end of it at a restaurant with my dad getting all excited.
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u/ZacInStl Brian Brennan Fan May 31 '25
Fall of 1st grade in 1982, watching Summer camp at Kirtland Community College. We parked about 20 feet from the edge of the field and said hi to the players when they finished practice. A couple players said hello back, several more waved but didn’t stop to talk.
We were with Boom Boom, one if the DJs from WMMS. We lived in Mentor and had restaurants in Wycliffe, Kirtland, and Geneva on the Lake and my dad befriended him at a taco eating contest the restaurant held. My dad tried to get a Mexican food vendor deal with Art Modell but Art wasn’t interested. Once Art turned him down again we left and went back to the restaurant in Kirtland and I spent $5 in quarters playing the original Donkey Kong arcade game next to the register.
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u/cracksbacks May 31 '25
Meeting Dick Schafrath at my father's Masonic Temple's annual holiday party. I didn't know much about the Browns at that age but it was cool as hell meeting a player.
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u/No_Damage_731 May 31 '25
1994 season, second or last game before they moved vs the oilers. My mom took me and encouraged me to join in on the “modell sucks” chants even though I was 10 years old and wasn’t allowed to say suck at home.
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u/RussianBlue420 May 31 '25
Dave Logan catching the late game winning TD on a bomb from Brian Sipe to beat the Packers at the Stadium, 1979 or 80 maybe?
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u/MozzyTheBear May 31 '25
I actually initially read this as "favorite" Browns memory and, after some thinking, went to Eric Metcalf double kick return TDs vs the steelers...cause I was young, it got me really into it and, quite frankly, it's been all downhill from there.
Then I realized it actually said first not favorite. And maybe it's not my first Browns memory if I dig deep enough, but it's the first one that stands out; I was I think 7, Eric Metcalf returned 2 kicks for TDs vs the Steelers...and, quite frankly, it's been all downhill since then.
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u/Usual-Librarian-322 May 31 '25
My first game was 1980, Brian Sioe was QB. Against the broncos, Sipe moved the ball up and down the field that day, but couldn't get a TD. Only FG's. It was at the end of the game, browns near Denver goal line. A Sipe pass was blocked, bounced off an offensive lineman's ankle, into Randy Gratishars hands, and he ran 99 yards for the TD. we lost the game
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u/revelator41 May 31 '25
29-14 loss to the Broncos in 1993. Sat in the dawg pound with 10-15 people in from my extended family. It was a blast, but we did lose.
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u/InfiniteDew May 31 '25
I remember this moment vividly. I was 8 and had a buddy over whose dad was a non football watcher and a dweeb. We were kind of bouncing around the house goofing off and not paying attention to the game. As the game ended with this play my dad went insane. He was yelling and jumping up and down so much the TV dropped signal. My friend immediately started crying.
It was awesome.
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u/Simple_Shake_5345 Jun 01 '25
Bernie Kosar hitting Webster Slaughter up the sideline to beat the Squealers in OT, 24 Nov 86. I was there, stadium went crazy! 1986 was such a fun season.
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u/GwapoDon Jun 01 '25
My first Browns memory I can recall was watching the Browns lose to the Baltimore Colts in a 1971 AFC Divisional Game 20-3.
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u/GwapoDon Jun 01 '25
My first memory I can recall was watching the Browns lose to the Baltimore Colts 20-3 in the 1971 AFC Divisional game
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u/Lumpy_Strawberry_154 Jun 02 '25
The drive. Unfortunately.
My family had season tickets from the 50s until they left. I went to countless games growing up. The 86 season I was 6 and my dad took me to my first games. I vaguely remember those first games. The environment, parking and walking to the game and giving my ticket to get ripped at the gate and let in. I remember all that. By the playoffs I was immersed in football. They ripped my heart out at six years old. It wouldn't be the last time.
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u/baconboyloiter Jun 02 '25 edited Jun 02 '25
Maybe when the Browns drafted Brady Quinn. I hadn’t watched enough football at that point to understand that great college QBs didn’t always work out in the NFL so I assumed Brady Quinn would be the answer. I made the same mistake with Colt McCoy a few years after that lol. I learned after that
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u/bdt69 Jun 02 '25
This was a great game. To answer your question the Drive is my first true Browns memory. Started off with a gut punch and has really never gotten any better. Truly amazing if you think about it.
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u/gijoe4500 May 30 '25
Dwayne Rudd helmet game.
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u/foxmag86 May 31 '25
That’s one of the top 10, or maybe even top 5 most brutal losses since I’ve been a fan.
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u/OceanicLemur May 30 '25 edited May 30 '25
Opening day 2007. I got into football through watching Notre Dame, so at 10 years old I said whoever drafts Brady Quinn is my team forever.
Jump to week 1, I’m super excited for my new NFL team. The starting QB (Charlie Frye) got benched at halftime, we lost 34-7 and he was traded the next morning. I consider it my baptism by fire.