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For fans from the Brown colours, whose team haven't won an NFL Championship since 1964 - and also have never won the Super Bowl - the franchise has seemed cursed to stay forevermore away from hallowed halls of professional football's elite. To be certain, there have been enough odd instances throughout the modern history of the Browns to provide rise to such a belief. When most fans think of the curse which has apparently plagued they, however, you will find three specific plays and drives that come to mind: the Red Right 88 instance, the Drive, and the Fumble.
Red Right 88
Red Right 88 refers to a play on January 4 of 1981 that was called by Cleveland toward no more the team's Division playoff matchup with the Raiders of Oakland. In the waning moments of this game, the Browns were behind by a score of fourteen to twelve, and driving. They got the ball down to Oakland's thirteen, but still had nearly one minute of game time left. Most fans assumed the team would line up to kick what can have been the victory field goal. Instead, the team attempted "Red Right 88" - a passing play. Brian Sipe, the Browns quarterback, then proceeded to toss the ball into the end focus an attempt to connect with Ozzie Newsome, the tight end. The ball became intercepted by Mike Davis from the Raiders, and also the Browns lost the game and any hope of the Super Bowl berth that year.
The Drive
Six years and seven days later, the Browns were within the AFC title game against the Gambling. Late in the fourth quarter, Cleveland was ahead with a touchdown. All they had to complete was keep John Elway and his Broncos out of the end zone during the last thirty-seven seconds of game-time. What happened then was one of the most remarkable - and for Cleveland fans, heartbreaking - drives in the history of the game. Elway proceeded they are driving his Broncos team ninety-eight yards down the field in that thirty-seven second length of time, for that tying score. Worse, the Browns wound up losing in the subsequent overtime period, twenty-three to twenty. Now referred to as Drive, the series by Elway is simply one more part of the team's legendary cursed history.
The Fumble
After which there's the Fumble. Only one year after the "Drive" broke the hearts of Browns fans, they found their team back in the AFC title game once more - once again facing Elway and also the Broncos. There is approximately one minute left hanging around, and also the Browns running back was on his way to what would have been a touchdown run to tie the score and force overtime. Once again, however, fate intervened, because the ball was fumbled at the three yard line and recovered by the Broncos at the two - strangely enough, the same two yard line that Elway had begun the "Drive" just a year before.