This game could very easily have been a preview of Super Bowl XXII. Of this I'm certain: if the Browns had not choked in the AFC championship game, SB XXII would have been much more competitive regardless of who they played. Instead we got to watch the Broncos get completely destroyed and humiliated in one quarter of play.
Judging by his game log, looks like he started off as a Replacement player that year, but kept his spot after the Strike. www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GlovCl20/gamelog/1987/
This was the game I thought the 49ers were the best team in the NFL that year. Still shocked the Vikings beat them in the playoffs that year. 1987 49ers, 2011 Packers, 2019 Ravens, 2010 Patriots, 1996 Broncos and other teams that got upset in the NFL Playoffs thru the years.
1burnman I mean it looks like he's conducting a symphony out there more than playing football he looks so smooth it's ridiculous and on top of that if you notice he's throwing receivers open the receivers aren't getting open for him that's the difference between this era and the eighties the defenses were allowed to pretty much be themselves and write you down the field as much as they wanted so your passes had to be pinpoint accurate nowadays because of the rule changes receivers are just running freely and you don't have to be as careful with the football that's why you're seeing all these ginormous yard totals I mean we got a season will be had five guys passed for 5000 yards LOL 6 guys passing for over 30 touchdowns yards per play like eight yards or more LOL backwood Dan Marino through for 5,000 in 83 he basically did out of a 2 receiver offense which means they were using mostly Max protection by keeping tight ends running backs and fullbacks in because you're had to if you're going to go down the field that much and that often the cornerbacks and safeties we're just better man-to-man Defenders than because they were allowed to be you had to have the time to be able to throw those kind of Deep routes. I'm not taking anything away from Brady I think he's great but let's not get carried away Joe Montana was playing today he would be virtually Unstoppable you just look at Aaron Rodgers he basically has almost the same skill set but I would argue that might Montana is more athletic and has better footwork
Well I don't know about that much LOL but Marino I seriously believe in this era could have thrown for 7000 yards I really do believe it and around 80 touchdowns I'm serious
Marino truly special w/that amazing '84 soph season. If only Shula built that O line. SB already sent message to AFC Miami couldn't stop intense D & later years showed. Football really changed in just twelve years. NFL saw fans really wanted scoring & did all it could to promote it. Protecting the QB & being tight on DBs would unleash scoring. Kilmer & Namath led NFL then w/19 TDs. Game has evolved.
Watching this again, kind of forgot how good Bernie Kosar was. I forgot what happened to the Browns that year. This video also reminds me of how good and reliable Dwight Clark was.
1:42:10 - That holding call was a key play of the game, because it denied the Browns a certain field goal -- and a likely touchdown -- when they most needed it.
I love Jim Brown. He's one of my favorite ever NFL players. I also really admire his social activism. But he repeatedly just sounds like an absolute moron throughout this game. Most quotable phrases: "They teach that in Cleveland" and "They're small".
Compared to whom? Meridith? Simpson? Dennis Miller? ABC could have sent more than a few of their MNF broadcasters back to class, or in Miller's case, the Catskills.
At 2:27 they reference a former presidential candidate failing to win with a little Rice on the side. What candidate are they referring to? Mondale or Hart? This was in '87 so prior to the '88 election.
@@johnmckinnon6928 i dont know how to do that. Im not that computer literate. I can ask my friend who probably knows how. I have over 300 49er games on DVD. I used to tape them and the ones that i needed i bought them from someone on Ebay about 15 years ago. I have every game of there 5 superbowl championships. I have the full seasons plus playoffs.
Man, that's impressive! A True Fan. I've been wanting to see this game again for years, ever since I watched it in '89. I live abroad and travel light so I have no way to watch DVDs, otherwise I'd buy this one, it's one of the best ever Joe moments. Please let me know if you are able to upload it, I also have no idea how to do such things. Otherwise I'll keep searching. Let's hope they can stay healthy next year and get that Number 6! Thanks, man.
Is Roy Firestone still broadcasting today? Also, the premier season of NFL on Cable TV (Sunday nights during the last half of the season). I don't think ESPN even gets a late season battle of first place teams on it's MONDAY NIGHT schedule nowadays.
59:44 and these so-called experts have the audacity to sit up here and say that Tom Brady is better than Joe Montana LOL listen Britt he's a great quarterback but if you watch this and think that he is better then Joe Montana you are biased and don't know s*** about football LOL this play here is just sick quarterbacking at its best Tom Brady couldn't make this play on on PS2 Madden LOL
Is still awesome Play on so many levels the footwork the timing the vision the Poise and the fact that he threw the guy open and the guy didn't get open for him that's a totally different Dynamic than what we see today
You're right...It's hard to say whether Montana or Brady was better, because they played in different times. Perhaps Brady can't make that play, but he's still a damn good QB. Brady didn't have the talent around him Montana had for most of his career, but he also played against much weaker competition. The Pats never had to contend with the Cowboys, Bears, Giants, Redskins, Saints, and even Rams. The league is just so mediocre now...If you put the 80s Browns, Broncos or 90s Bills in the NFL today, they would dominate.
Michael Dubin Montana has better fundamentals it's the same thing with LeBron James and Michael Jordan Michael Jordan has better fundamentals than LeBron James so just on that alone Montana and Jordan are better than their counterparts if they're being compared to but we live in a result-based society that doesn't take a consideration of people skills and display of skills while they're on their Journey for instance Chris Carter has never played in a Superbowl but Wes Welker has played in three based on today's logic Wes Welker would be considered to be the better player strictly because of the results of the team that he was on not the display of his personal skills people that they don't even understand with fundamentals are it's kind of like the way people are towards boxing people go to see a boxing fight maybe once out of a decade and they can't tell a left hook from a straight cross and the only way they think who is the better fighter is the one who emerges the victor but that's not always the case the end result does not display an individuals total skill and abilities in totality don't believe me go watch any Rocky Marciano fight he was clearly under skilled in virtually every fight he won but yet he was Victorious great as he was you wouldn't ever put him in the same class as Joe Louis or ezzard Charles guys he beat. The average sports fan is just not able not able to recognize the intricacies of the game after watching because it takes time so it's easy for the media to spin who they want the public-at-large to believe who is the best, that's the problem with the average sports fan these days .I get tired of having to have ridiculous debates with people and I bring up Sports verbatim that's common to anyone that studies the game but to the average person time I will be speaking Russian . For instance I was having a discussion with a friend about the NBA and the over-saturation of 3-point shots and how it allows a team like Golden State to be dominant because if you're taking quick shots not to mention quick low-percentage shots and they're taking quick low-percentage shots it comes down to a situation of big Bank take little Bank there's no real control of the game it's just left up to long distance shooting there's no control of pace time or score, basically I was telling him that and no error of basketball has a long-distance shot been a more viable option than a dunk live for free through he couldn't understand it and at that point I just gave up. It's the same thing when try to talk about montanas footwork and how it separated him from guys like Johnny Unitas and other pocket passers similar to his style like Tom Brady and nobody understands it all they think about our yards. But yet and still the quick to say Aaron Rodgers is a great quarterback even though he displays virtually the same skill-set that Joe Montana did ridiculous SMH
Jim Brown pretty much respected all the great running backs that came after him. But there was ONE particular great running back Jim Brown had NO respect for. Can anyone out there name that running back??
It's a treat to listen to Jim Brown's commentary. Very insightful and on point.
I was literally just thinking the same thing!
Dwight Clark's 500th catch 1:00:57 Clark's touchdown 1:03:30 RIP Dwight Clark, you were one in a million!
This game could very easily have been a preview of Super Bowl XXII. Of this I'm certain: if the Browns had not choked in the AFC championship game, SB XXII would have been much more competitive regardless of who they played. Instead we got to watch the Broncos get completely destroyed and humiliated in one quarter of play.
My dad's actually playing in the game. Check him out, #93 Clyde Glover. 1987.
Corey Glover that's really awesome!
Corey Glover cool i remember him 👍
How lucky to have your dad play in the nfl. I'm sure he kept his jersey and helmet right?
you have the same name as the lead singer of 'Living Colour"
Judging by his game log, looks like he started off as a Replacement player that year, but kept his spot after the Strike. www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GlovCl20/gamelog/1987/
This was the game I thought the 49ers were the best team in the NFL that year. Still shocked the Vikings beat them in the playoffs that year.
1987 49ers, 2011 Packers, 2019 Ravens, 2010 Patriots, 1996 Broncos and other teams that got upset in the NFL Playoffs thru the years.
1976 Steelers
1985 dolphins
1994 Steelers
Montana had some problems off the field and the Bears roughed him up in the MNF game in Dec just before the playoffs.
Minny just got lucky that year.
I wish the Browns would win the Big One. I'm a niner's fan, born and bred, but dang, they were so good that year. Hope springs, as they say.
The 🐐 Jerry Rice in one of his best seasons. Great upload, nice to see him this early in his career 👍🏿
Cleveland had some great players on this team.
They were for real and should have been in the Super Bowl that year without a doubt.
Nah….
Back when ESPN was about sports and not TMZ.
This should have been a preview of the Super Bowl
I know Byner would love to have traded the TD off the fumble recovery here for the one that happened in Denver in January.
he won a ring with the redskins
How can Roger Craig not be in the Hall of Fame?
JERRY RICE THE G.O.A.T. 🐐
I remember seeing SBXXII stuff everywhere in CLE that year--even the snowplow trucks had XXII painted on the front of their shovels/plows.
10:32 What a catch by Rice. Great combination : Montana to Rice
I miss the real Browns! Just 1 before I die!
I hope you are a young person.
They're in Baltimore...
Keep waiting it’ll come
when teams allowed the niners to get into their game, it was over and over and over.
WOW look how young Chris Berman is. DANG...
Joe Montana is the best of all time. exclamation point
1burnman I mean it looks like he's conducting a symphony out there more than playing football he looks so smooth it's ridiculous and on top of that if you notice he's throwing receivers open the receivers aren't getting open for him that's the difference between this era and the eighties the defenses were allowed to pretty much be themselves and write you down the field as much as they wanted so your passes had to be pinpoint accurate nowadays because of the rule changes receivers are just running freely and you don't have to be as careful with the football that's why you're seeing all these ginormous yard totals I mean we got a season will be had five guys passed for 5000 yards LOL 6 guys passing for over 30 touchdowns yards per play like eight yards or more LOL backwood Dan Marino through for 5,000 in 83 he basically did out of a 2 receiver offense which means they were using mostly Max protection by keeping tight ends running backs and fullbacks in because you're had to if you're going to go down the field that much and that often the cornerbacks and safeties we're just better man-to-man Defenders than because they were allowed to be you had to have the time to be able to throw those kind of Deep routes. I'm not taking anything away from Brady I think he's great but let's not get carried away Joe Montana was playing today he would be virtually Unstoppable you just look at Aaron Rodgers he basically has almost the same skill set but I would argue that might Montana is more athletic and has better footwork
Dan Marino would have thrown 417 18000 yards today at least I hear what you mean
Well I don't know about that much LOL but Marino I seriously believe in this era could have thrown for 7000 yards I really do believe it and around 80 touchdowns I'm serious
Oh yeah!
Marino truly special w/that amazing '84 soph season. If only Shula built that O line. SB already sent message to AFC Miami couldn't stop intense D & later years showed. Football really changed in just twelve years. NFL saw fans really wanted scoring & did all it could to promote it. Protecting the QB & being tight on DBs would unleash scoring. Kilmer & Namath led NFL then w/19 TDs. Game has evolved.
Watching this again, kind of forgot how good Bernie Kosar was. I forgot what happened to the Browns that year. This video also reminds me of how good and reliable Dwight Clark was.
Two of the better teams in the late 80's. No rivalry ever materialized however. The 49ers far outclassed the late 80's Browns.
1:32:53 The quote by Golic about steroids never being banned by the NFL has held up for 33 years!
That was a plausible Super Bowl preview, but the Vikings and Broncos messed that up…
And the strike messed up things up too.
Same thing in '82
1:42:10 - That holding call was a key play of the game, because it denied the Browns a certain field goal -- and a likely touchdown -- when they most needed it.
Dude love the channel, been watching so many random Niner games. I need it during this Jimmy G-less time :(
BitsAndGlory Shits tough right now. I’ve eaten a lotta ice cream, and have gone through a grocery isle shelf’s worth of Kleenex.
Ninerszn It was a rough Sunday for me as well, just sat on the couch after the game for like 2 hours pounding pizza hahaha
Roy Firestone trying his hand at broadcasting NFL. Nice.
1:03:48 I love this celebration by Montana, and that the camera catches so much of it.
This is an early NFL game on ESPN. Wow!
First year for ESPN's Sunday Night Football
They need to go back to it
Cle@sf getting underway tonight, I think this ‘87 matchup was the last time both faced each other on espn
I was at this game!
Wow legendary
back when they had real kickoffs in the game.
This Game Should Have been Super Bowl 22
Browns were great that year but 455 yards and 38 points? Yikes!
I was at this game
I love Jim Brown. He's one of my favorite ever NFL players. I also really admire his social activism. But he repeatedly just sounds like an absolute moron throughout this game. Most quotable phrases: "They teach that in Cleveland" and "They're small".
Compared to whom?
Meridith?
Simpson?
Dennis Miller?
ABC could have sent more than a few of their MNF broadcasters back to class, or in Miller's case, the Catskills.
At 2:27 they reference a former presidential candidate failing to win with a little Rice on the side. What candidate are they referring to? Mondale or Hart? This was in '87 so prior to the '88 election.
Any chance of getting 1989 week 3 49ers at Eagles on here? It's one of the best
I have it on DVD. Full game.
Thanks for the reply. Any chance you can post it here?
@@johnmckinnon6928 i dont know how to do that. Im not that computer literate. I can ask my friend who probably knows how. I have over 300 49er games on DVD. I used to tape them and the ones that i needed i bought them from someone on Ebay about 15 years ago. I have every game of there 5 superbowl championships. I have the full seasons plus playoffs.
Man, that's impressive! A True Fan. I've been wanting to see this game again for years, ever since I watched it in '89. I live abroad and travel light so I have no way to watch DVDs, otherwise I'd buy this one, it's one of the best ever Joe moments. Please let me know if you are able to upload it, I also have no idea how to do such things. Otherwise I'll keep searching. Let's hope they can stay healthy next year and get that Number 6! Thanks, man.
@@johnmckinnon6928 ok i will.
1:31:12......did Hanford Dixon get a description on the truck that ran him!!!!???
Is Roy Firestone still broadcasting today? Also, the premier season of NFL on Cable TV (Sunday nights during the last half of the season). I don't think ESPN even gets a late season battle of first place teams on it's MONDAY NIGHT schedule nowadays.
I wasn't at this game.
59:44 and these so-called experts have the audacity to sit up here and say that Tom Brady is better than Joe Montana LOL listen Britt he's a great quarterback but if you watch this and think that he is better then Joe Montana you are biased and don't know s*** about football LOL this play here is just sick quarterbacking at its best Tom Brady couldn't make this play on on PS2 Madden LOL
kit walker well said truth finally
Of course, some jerk had to hold and ruin it...
Is still awesome Play on so many levels the footwork the timing the vision the Poise and the fact that he threw the guy open and the guy didn't get open for him that's a totally different Dynamic than what we see today
You're right...It's hard to say whether Montana or Brady was better, because they played in different times. Perhaps Brady can't make that play, but he's still a damn good QB. Brady didn't have the talent around him Montana had for most of his career, but he also played against much weaker competition. The Pats never had to contend with the Cowboys, Bears, Giants, Redskins, Saints, and even Rams. The league is just so mediocre now...If you put the 80s Browns, Broncos or 90s Bills in the NFL today, they would dominate.
Michael Dubin Montana has better fundamentals it's the same thing with LeBron James and Michael Jordan Michael Jordan has better fundamentals than LeBron James so just on that alone Montana and Jordan are better than their counterparts if they're being compared to but we live in a result-based society that doesn't take a consideration of people skills and display of skills while they're on their Journey for instance Chris Carter has never played in a Superbowl but Wes Welker has played in three based on today's logic Wes Welker would be considered to be the better player strictly because of the results of the team that he was on not the display of his personal skills people that they don't even understand with fundamentals are it's kind of like the way people are towards boxing people go to see a boxing fight maybe once out of a decade and they can't tell a left hook from a straight cross and the only way they think who is the better fighter is the one who emerges the victor but that's not always the case the end result does not display an individuals total skill and abilities in totality don't believe me go watch any Rocky Marciano fight he was clearly under skilled in virtually every fight he won but yet he was Victorious great as he was you wouldn't ever put him in the same class as Joe Louis or ezzard Charles guys he beat. The average sports fan is just not able not able to recognize the intricacies of the game after watching because it takes time so it's easy for the media to spin who they want the public-at-large to believe who is the best, that's the problem with the average sports fan these days .I get tired of having to have ridiculous debates with people and I bring up Sports verbatim that's common to anyone that studies the game but to the average person time I will be speaking Russian . For instance I was having a discussion with a friend about the NBA and the over-saturation of 3-point shots and how it allows a team like Golden State to be dominant because if you're taking quick shots not to mention quick low-percentage shots and they're taking quick low-percentage shots it comes down to a situation of big Bank take little Bank there's no real control of the game it's just left up to long distance shooting there's no control of pace time or score, basically I was telling him that and no error of basketball has a long-distance shot been a more viable option than a dunk live for free through he couldn't understand it and at that point I just gave up. It's the same thing when try to talk about montanas footwork and how it separated him from guys like Johnny Unitas and other pocket passers similar to his style like Tom Brady and nobody understands it all they think about our yards. But yet and still the quick to say Aaron Rodgers is a great quarterback even though he displays virtually the same skill-set that Joe Montana did ridiculous SMH
SMASHEDDDDDDDDDDDDD !
What is score?
Niners win 38 to 24
Jim Brown pretty much respected all the great running backs that came after him. But there was ONE particular great running back Jim Brown had NO respect for. Can anyone out there name that running back??
Asa Lee Franco Harris
Correct!
Damn I was hoping no one would answer that, I wanted to say Franco first LMAO
no j simpsonhead
@Jonathan Dee The One And Only Yup. That's why he didn't like Franco
10:32
GD Roy Firestone was bad
Yeah he was.....that joke at the beginning about Rice had me scratching my head, as did a few other things. Dennis Miller before Dennis Miller? lol
These three are horrible commentators.
Firestone and Brown have ZERO chemistry. They do not jell at all.
Ya think?