It was anything but Happy Holidays for our country in late 2001. Last time anyone checked, America was still reeling from the terrorist incidents over three months ago.
What they didn’t show at the end of this clip is that the NFL commissioner at the time Paul Tagliabue called Terry McAulay and told him the game had to be finished. Some of the players on both teams had taken their gear off and started showering but they were forced to go back onto the field more than 20 minutes later so that the Jaguars could kneel on the ball 2 times and the clock could officially hit 0.
Imange in fantasy you the jags qb and you won the game then had to come back on to the field to finish the game and you lost because the jags qb kneeled twice
Never thought I would see the day the footage of this incident would be in good quality. Always thought this footage would be hidden away forever outside of home recordings. Glad to see its being acknowledged.
I was 6 years old and this was my first Browns game. I went with my dad and grandfather and my memories are pretty foggy from the game as a whole. However, I remember being quickly escorted from the stadium when the bottles started flying. As we walked back to our car I told my dad "So a bowl shank must be when they start throwing bottles." They obviously were happy to let me believe that's what the crowd was shouting. At school on monday I was so excited to tell my friends that I had been to a bowl shank!
I was at this game too. I was 20 years old and we were sitting in the first row of the upper deck of the dawg pound dead center. I was wearing a brand new pure white browns hoodie and it was destroyed from ketchup and mustard because before people started throwing bottles they were throwing their food and anything else they had. And that right there was why I never bought another white hoodie again. 😂 No but seriously, that was super surreal to live through. We were only 20 so we were sober and I remember every moment. As per usual the refs screwed my team over.
@@stacywoodman2074thats what I was thinking. He could have used a word like “unanimously”. Sure we know what he meant but like you said, who uses that word? Lol
Never thought I'd see the day that the NFL actually acknowledges this moment happened!! One of the WORST officiating disasters in the history of league that potentially robbed a team of a Playoff spot. This moment is also one of the many that's responsible for why alcohol sales are stopped after the 3rd quarter and why beer is no longer sold in bottles at stadiums.
Malice at the Palace became the ultimate nail in the coffin as far as that goes, but I do see where you’re coming from. Although the Browns made the playoffs the following year, they couldn’t build off of it and suffered an 18 year drought
This was a wild ending. I remember watching this one live. Ironically Quincy Morgan the guy at the center of this caught a hail mary from Tim Couch in Jacksonville the very next season to win 21-20.
The thing in all this: Earlier in the season the Browns played the Bears. This exact thing happened where the Bears made a play on the sidelines but they ran up and spiked the ball. The refs did not review the play there because the Bears spiked it.
Nope. NFL never addressed the error and Terry McAuley went on to never have this gross error affect the rest of his officiating career. Now we have to watch this clown be a “rules expert” on SNF
If you want to see a less famous one, look for the one where the Browns played Washington. Duke Johnson fumbled the ball. Fumble recovery pile ensues. Duke Johnson comes out of the pile holding ball showing it to ref who ignores him and continues to look into the pile to see two Washington players fighting over nothing but air. Ref awarded fumble recovery to Washington.
Multiple rules? They botched the review, that’s one mistake not multiple rules. And was far from flagrant. They didn’t do it to deliberately screw the Browns if that’s what you’re trying to say. The broadcasters even made it very clear that it began with technical issues. Yes, it was wrong they didn’t say “we can’t do it now, another play has been run” but you can’t blame them for the technical issues.
I remember when this happened so well. I was fairly new to Cleveland and was listening to this game on the radio, and it was crazy. Amazing that this was twenty two years ago, almost to the day, and it seems like last week. I always felt bad for Tim Couch, as he had a LOT of potential but was going to get killed with that offensive line and the coach, who was woefully inept, just wouldn't design an offense to play to his strengths. No wonder he was out of the league so fast. I really did feel bad for him.
Did you ever see the video of 5 cent beer night in Cleveland old municipal stadium between the Cleveland Indians and Texas rangers? Absolutely out of hand!!!
4Jun1974. Indians’ bench clearing scrum against Rangers the previous week in TX set the tone. Nearly all schools/colleges started summer break. Strohs’ local brewery prior promotions had gone off without any issues, but not this time….
@@Kings0424nope, they missed it, the Jets won the division at 9-7 and Patriots didn't have a tiebreaker against them, that whole division was all above or at 8-8 including the Bills
Wow. Seems like just yesterday the NFL, who owns this UA-cam channel, wanted us to forget that this game ever happened. Thanks to Ramen Robbie for not letting that happen.
"This play will be talked about in Cleveland for the next 6 months." This was 2001, It's currently 2024, and we're STILL talking about this bullshit in Cleveland.
One of the reasons they don't allow bottles and cans inside the stadium anymore. I used to bartend at stadiums and fans always ask why they can't have the bottle/can and why it has to be poured in a cup...this is why
I had a pre-season seminar involving alcohol sales at my job at Nationwide Arena (the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets). We were told about the reason why all concession alcohol sales ended at the beginning of the third period. Someone left Giants Stadium after having been served multiple alcoholic beverages, he caused a fatal accident. A resulting lawsuit was brought against the company responsible after the accident. Most stadiums and arenas have similar policies regarding alcohol sales to where I worked the farther a game goes along. And limits can include a maximum of two drinks per sale.
I remember this like it was yesterday. I was at my uncles house and he got super angry and kicked the screen door off the back porch lmao. My aunt got super mad at him.
No, the most Cleveland Browns thing would be if the QB tore his ACL and Achilles tendon while spiking the ball. Then they would have achieved Full Cleveland. 😁
I was at that game, was in early high school with another friend upper deck. If you remember back then, it was if the challenge didn't come in before the next snap, it NEVER got overturned. That's why people were so pissed. People at the game didn't get to hear these announcers agreeing with us either, that probably might have helped It also officially knocked the Browns out of the playoffs haha. Is what it is
I was at that game, I had questions about making it out of there. There were fights on the streets, people fighting the cops, it was the craziest thing I have ever seen. I'll never ever forget that day.
How on earth can you overrule a play from a previous snap when you've already ran another play? This was the worst officiated game ever played in the history of the National Football League.
Announcer in 2001: "This is an event that will be talked about.. in Cleveland... at least for the next 6 months!" UA-camrs in 2024: "Top 10 Biggest disasters in NFL history! Number 1..."
@@jonhenrickson6075 ok so will you allow yourself to be hit with the bottle possibly with liquid still in it. thrown with enough force and possible from above?
I was at this game as a kid (maybe 11 yrs old) - I had won a school contest and was invited to the field before the game. We were given 5th row seats behind the Browns end zone. I'll never forget when this game went sour and the storm of crap that came flying down around us. My parents did all they could to shield myself and my younger brother from the chaos. After the game, my mother actually got stopped by the media. During the interview, an angry mob of fans surrounded us and started chanting 'bullshit'. My mom, being more upset that her kids had to go through that hell then the outcome of the game itself, got right in this guys face, wagging finger and all, and started telling him off like she was his own mother. That clip wound up on World News tonight with Peter Jennings. Still my first and only Browns game! Certainly a moment I'll never forget.
You could try asking your local station, which ever it aired on, if they have a tape from that day's broadcast. They more than likely do. If not a digital copy.
Yeah I definitely agree the NFL is trying to forget that game but unfortunately it's part of history. However the next year in the 2002-03 season Cleveland Browns would make the playoffs
@@levikatriel The original bottlegate was the 1975 "Hail Mary" game when Vikings' fans pelted the refs with bottles over a missed OPI. Worse than any sequel as an official got hit in the head with a bottle in that game.
Honestly one of the craziest endings you'd ever expect to see. I don't ever condone throwing beer bottles on the field but at the same time those Cleveland fans were JUSTIFIED in their anger. There had been some massive referee screw ups before this but I think it's safe to say you can pinpoint this as the beginning of the modern era of officiating where there's at least a handful of really controversial or outright bad reffing in the NFL every year.
I was there that day. Only 10 years old, but that’s a memory that will stick with me forever. Got hit in the head with a bottle too! This made national news too back then. Was a wild time.
I was at this game in the opposite side of the stadium. It was also those years we had the Dwayne Rudd helmet game and Orlando Brown getting a penalty flag into the eyeball which ended his career. All home games. Not exactly the history we were hoping for
Cleveland fans should be ashamed of themselves. They didn't hit a single ref with those bottles. What a stupid call. You literally can't challenge a play after another one is ran.
I can understand both sides of the argument. I think the referees could have done a better job of letting the fans know what was going on, and the fans shouldn't have been throwing bottles into the stadium.
I was there. It was shockingly dangerous as full bottles from the upper decks were raining down us in the lower decks. What you don't see in this clip is the riot that basically happened outside as they ran the final plays and fans were trying to get back in...
Giving the ball the Jacksonville was unfair. It should have been 2nd and 20 for the browns. Also nice to see 0:28 number 88 keeping his head in the game. If you want to run a spike the ball needs to be placed TOOT SWEET.
The officiating during the 2023 season makes this moment look normal. I wish the referees would just tell the audience at the start of each game which team is going to win, Because with their horribly calls each and every game they are clearly fixing games to a predetermined outcome.
Refs have it out for Cleveland. They even nearly ended the career of Orlando Brown by throwing a flag forcefully into his eye. NFL hates Cleveland to. The awarded the new Browns to Al Lerner who helped Art Modell move the team in the first place. Got the ball rolling for him
NFL screwed this up royally. They should have given the 1st down and then called intentional grounding making it 2nd and 20. They do that and we aren’t talking about this game 20 years later
@@Eli-ss9gj It doesn’t matter whether they buzzed or if their was a malfunction. The play was ran. You can’t back track after the fact. That’s why this never happened again.
This is what happens when the refs break the rules. The next play started and was completed. You can no longer review the previous play. That was the rule then, that’s the rule now. People blame the fans and ignore why they reacted the way they did.
I was at this game as a kid with really good tickets my dad got from work on the side of the end zone. When the bottles started flying, we got up to leave and a fraction of a second after standing up a FULL bottle slammed into my dads seat. Could have really hurt him.
Fast forward 22 years: 4,782 high definition cameras in every stadium, the league seemingly not able to define what a catch is, rules to protect players being selectively enforced, selectively thrown penalty flags that more often than not favor a marketable star, and after 10 minutes of reviewing a play that it takes the average human watching the game 10 seconds to get the call correct - the officials STILL get it wrong. Man, replay really made the game better.
You can see right at @0:42 when the official got buzzed. Clearly after the play started. Officiating was trash back then and has even gotten worse today.
Should've been 1 & goal at the 20. They already snapped the ball, the last play was too close to overturn, but the quarterback did commit intentional grounding. And I think this was before the 10 second runoff was introduced.
Obviously the fans shouldn't throw stuff on the field but another play was run, that's that. It doesn't matter why another play was run, once it's run, there's no review possible. They were right to be irate (btw, I'm a Vikings fan, no dog in the fight).
I was there. The place was absolutely furious. We were still playoff hopeful. I remember being furious not only at the call but Tom Coughlin was out so far onto the field the Jags should've been penalized. And yes, I had a bottle that I'd found but I didn't throw it. i was too high up and away from the field.
The rule should be that if the radio communications go down the game continues. They use the on field refs as the final decision. Just like the good old days before off field people with 20 replays can reverse the on field call. If they didn't get their coms working again to alert the on field refs the game would have continued. Once another play was executed, by the rules, they can't go back to review the previous play. So it does look like cheating if they don't follow the rules. So the bottles flew. And stopping the game was wrong. Fumbles do happen.
It was the beginning for of the replay era… a mix of excitement and really not understanding how to utilize this game changing tool. Weird pet peeve to have here…
I love the ‘happy holidays’ on the scoreboard as the game is called to an end
It was anything but Happy Holidays for our country in late 2001. Last time anyone checked, America was still reeling from the terrorist incidents over three months ago.
@@ericradford2142uhhhh cool bro
@@NDnf84uhhhh he made a valid point bruh
@@CrazyBrick30I agree bro
@@NDnf84he’s not wrong lmao
If I had a nickel for every time I heard, “It’s getting ugly in Cleveland”
Yeah ikr...anywho, IT'S GETTIN' UGLY IN CLEVELAND!!
You'd have like 75 cents. It ain't that bad.
Only in Cleveland
Aint called the dog pound for nothin
LOL. As a Cleveland resident, I concur.
What they didn’t show at the end of this clip is that the NFL commissioner at the time Paul Tagliabue called Terry McAulay and told him the game had to be finished. Some of the players on both teams had taken their gear off and started showering but they were forced to go back onto the field more than 20 minutes later so that the Jaguars could kneel on the ball 2 times and the clock could officially hit 0.
You're right. What the boss wants the boss gets.
@@richardhedd3080 That's gambling for you. If the game wasn't officially finished Vegas would have alot of issues.
Imange in fantasy you the jags qb and you won the game then had to come back on to the field to finish the game and you lost because the jags qb kneeled twice
TURN THAT PLANE AROUND WE GOTTA GO BACK JUST TO KNEEL OUT THAT LAST MINUTE!
How the heck did they leave that out?
Never thought I would see the day the footage of this incident would be in good quality. Always thought this footage would be hidden away forever outside of home recordings. Glad to see its being acknowledged.
@james7819
I’m not, people are still debating this football game 20 years later, so I’m surprised that it hasn’t shown up sooner.
What are you talking about I've seen this on multiple videos on UA-cam been on here for years
@JohnSmith-fq7hj yeah but not in this high quality. Did you read or nah?
@@james7819 there's been multiple videos with the same game quality footage on YT for a long time
I was 6 years old and this was my first Browns game. I went with my dad and grandfather and my memories are pretty foggy from the game as a whole. However, I remember being quickly escorted from the stadium when the bottles started flying. As we walked back to our car I told my dad "So a bowl shank must be when they start throwing bottles." They obviously were happy to let me believe that's what the crowd was shouting. At school on monday I was so excited to tell my friends that I had been to a bowl shank!
"GUYS! I WAS AT THE BOWL SHANK!"
"Michael, what the hell are you talking about???"
"SHUT UP BILL! I WAS THERE!!!"
So wholesome
I was at this game too. I was 20 years old and we were sitting in the first row of the upper deck of the dawg pound dead center. I was wearing a brand new pure white browns hoodie and it was destroyed from ketchup and mustard because before people started throwing bottles they were throwing their food and anything else they had. And that right there was why I never bought another white hoodie again. 😂 No but seriously, that was super surreal to live through. We were only 20 so we were sober and I remember every moment. As per usual the refs screwed my team over.
@@Lostmymind1 That's funny lol
@@frankmurray222 That sucks man lol
The fans chanting "bullshit" is unabashedly my favorite part of this.
Did unabashed somehow become a pop culture word now or something? Did a character from Stranger Things use it? No one says that, lol!
@@stacywoodman2074thats what I was thinking. He could have used a word like “unanimously”. Sure we know what he meant but like you said, who uses that word? Lol
Some people actually read stuff other than the sports page every once in a while.
My guy pulled out a big boy word
@12feetup I should have known.
Wow, the NFL embracing one of the true really, really, REALLY weird parts of its past
That's what I was saying. I'm shocked they posted this. It's a sign of change in my opinion. NFL definitely learned it's lesson.
Good or bad, it's a moment for the NFL history books. NFL Throwback does a great job of not just showing the good times.
You mean rigged part of their past
JAX VS CLE this weekend. Playoff hopes for the browns depend on this game. Somewhat.
They probably posted this because they’re now starting to accept that refs are trash.
Never thought I'd see the day that the NFL actually acknowledges this moment happened!! One of the WORST officiating disasters in the history of league that potentially robbed a team of a Playoff spot. This moment is also one of the many that's responsible for why alcohol sales are stopped after the 3rd quarter and why beer is no longer sold in bottles at stadiums.
@mattodriguez
It’s a good distraction from real issues that affect Americans.
Gus Johnson said the bottles were plastic in this game
lol Browns weren’t going anywhere anyways they are some trash
Malice at the Palace became the ultimate nail in the coffin as far as that goes, but I do see where you’re coming from. Although the Browns made the playoffs the following year, they couldn’t build off of it and suffered an 18 year drought
I thought most stadiums already stopped alcohol sales after the start of the 4th quarter.
This was a wild ending. I remember watching this one live. Ironically Quincy Morgan the guy at the center of this caught a hail mary from Tim Couch in Jacksonville the very next season to win 21-20.
Which was also juggled
Quincy Morgan is also known to Browns fans of having hands of stone
This cannot be scripted 😂😂😂
The thing in all this: Earlier in the season the Browns played the Bears. This exact thing happened where the Bears made a play on the sidelines but they ran up and spiked the ball. The refs did not review the play there because the Bears spiked it.
You’re right. It was a firm rule when they started replay. Once that play is snapped it’s over.
That's the right way to do it.
That's crazy
But it shouldn't have even come to that, but it did due to the Browns BLOWING an insurmountable lead to the Bears!
@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040 That's why the game is not over until there is zeros on the clock
Just imagine if this happened in the Social media/Hot take era.
This was the chat room era. Every football chat room I was in was going off.
@@ervinghenderson4780if those still exist I would love to see it
@@ervinghenderson4780I miss those boards.
Yup all those sport debate shows would spend so much time on it
Twitter would’ve exploded if twitter were around during this game lmao
OMG! I never thought this would ever be uploaded by an official NFL channel ever! Well done Throwback!
When the Jags had their uniforms right
Browns too.. they should have white facemasks
Anyone here after the same happened at the Georgia VS Texas college game?
Me
Lol
Literally looked up this video because of that
Yeah bro got me thinking of it
Yes I was in Cleveland when this shit happened
An official NFL channel acknowledging Bottlegate? Hell hath frozen over indeed!
If the NFL is acknowledging this, they need to acknowledge the horrendous officiating in the league currently.
They acknowledge their errors after 20 years. Don’t hold your breath
It will take 20 years, in another 20 years they will just tell us the league is rigged….
Never
I don’t think this channel is run by the nfl
How is there only 60 likes?😂
This was the one game I think that the NFL came out and admitted that they fucked up
when???? Never happened. Would not matter if it did.
Nope. NFL never addressed the error and Terry McAuley went on to never have this gross error affect the rest of his officiating career. Now we have to watch this clown be a “rules expert” on SNF
One of the most infamous officiating controversies in NFL history.
This Was Ridiculous From an Eagles Fan!
If you want to see a less famous one, look for the one where the Browns played Washington. Duke Johnson fumbled the ball. Fumble recovery pile ensues. Duke Johnson comes out of the pile holding ball showing it to ref who ignores him and continues to look into the pile to see two Washington players fighting over nothing but air. Ref awarded fumble recovery to Washington.
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@@AquariumThoughts What Year Was That Infamous Play?
@@vinceniederman I think 2016
Im shocked the NFL is finally acknowledging this.
It should be. The league solidified the rule about running another play.
Probably because the Jags and the Browns are playing each other this weekend
This channel is not the NFL. It just use the name. I don't think they are affiliated with the NFL. i may be wrong though
@@truthiscensored NFL Throwback IS an NFL channel
@truthiscensored ......yes, this channel is with the NFL.
I cannot say I feel sorry for the refs in any capacity in this situation. They flagrantly broke the rules multiple times.
I feel for them, as godawful of a call as it was. Nobody deserves to be assaulted over a game.
@@heyheyhey33351 yes they did lol
Officials. Only 1 referee in each game
Multiple rules? They botched the review, that’s one mistake not multiple rules. And was far from flagrant. They didn’t do it to deliberately screw the Browns if that’s what you’re trying to say. The broadcasters even made it very clear that it began with technical issues. Yes, it was wrong they didn’t say “we can’t do it now, another play has been run” but you can’t blame them for the technical issues.
With that logic, we should throw stuff on the field about 200 times, since this happened
I remember when this happened so well. I was fairly new to Cleveland and was listening to this game on the radio, and it was crazy. Amazing that this was twenty two years ago, almost to the day, and it seems like last week. I always felt bad for Tim Couch, as he had a LOT of potential but was going to get killed with that offensive line and the coach, who was woefully inept, just wouldn't design an offense to play to his strengths. No wonder he was out of the league so fast. I really did feel bad for him.
Did you ever see the video of 5 cent beer night in Cleveland old municipal stadium between the Cleveland Indians and Texas rangers? Absolutely out of hand!!!
4Jun1974. Indians’ bench clearing scrum against Rangers the previous week in TX set the tone. Nearly all schools/colleges started summer break. Strohs’ local brewery prior promotions had gone off without any issues, but not this time….
9:47 I just find it funny that two Browns fans are fighting each other when the real enemies are going by them 😂😂
It screwed the browns out of a possible wild card spot that year
Facts
At least the next year they helped prevent the Patriots from getting into the playoffs 😂
@aeroblaziken4145 Wait, I thought the Patriots made the playoffs that next year in 2002
@@Kings0424nope, they missed it, the Jets won the division at 9-7 and Patriots didn't have a tiebreaker against them, that whole division was all above or at 8-8 including the Bills
@aeroblaziken4145 Oh wow that's crazy
Wow. Seems like just yesterday the NFL, who owns this UA-cam channel, wanted us to forget that this game ever happened. Thanks to Ramen Robbie for not letting that happen.
Ramen Robbie shout out ... Hell yea!!
This so Chiefs fans can shut up about this weekends game 😂
who gives a single fk about this sorry ass game ... lolol nobody
"This play will be talked about in Cleveland for the next 6 months." This was 2001, It's currently 2024, and we're STILL talking about this bullshit in Cleveland.
@Lostmymind1
Do you think that they will ever let it go?
Now you can see how bad the officiating really is!
One of the reasons they don't allow bottles and cans inside the stadium anymore.
I used to bartend at stadiums and fans always ask why they can't have the bottle/can and why it has to be poured in a cup...this is why
I had a pre-season seminar involving alcohol sales at my job at Nationwide Arena (the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets). We were told about the reason why all concession alcohol sales ended at the beginning of the third period. Someone left Giants Stadium after having been served multiple alcoholic beverages, he caused a fatal accident. A resulting lawsuit was brought against the company responsible after the accident. Most stadiums and arenas have similar policies regarding alcohol sales to where I worked the farther a game goes along. And limits can include a maximum of two drinks per sale.
To protect cheating refs
I remember this like it was yesterday. I was at my uncles house and he got super angry and kicked the screen door off the back porch lmao. My aunt got super mad at him.
I wouldn't blame him
lmao
I'm going to take a guess and say that screen door hasn't been fixed in 23 years
This is the most Cleveland Browns thing I've ever seen.
I agree 💯👍
Search municipal stadium 5 cent beer night from the mid 70s to see maybe the craziest stadium scene of all time
No, the most Cleveland Browns thing would be if the QB tore his ACL and Achilles tendon while spiking the ball. Then they would have achieved Full Cleveland.
😁
I was at that game, was in early high school with another friend upper deck. If you remember back then, it was if the challenge didn't come in before the next snap, it NEVER got overturned. That's why people were so pissed. People at the game didn't get to hear these announcers agreeing with us either, that probably might have helped
It also officially knocked the Browns out of the playoffs haha. Is what it is
I was there too. Sitting in the front row of the upper deck of the dawg pound. It was pandemonium.
What year?
@@xploration1437 2001
Man I remember this, that’s so crazy still that they went back those two plays that’s wild
I remember being so pissed as a kid that a ref didn't get dome shotted by a bottle lol
Yep, I remember watching this game. Crazy how that unfolded.
I was at that game, I had questions about making it out of there. There were fights on the streets, people fighting the cops, it was the craziest thing I have ever seen. I'll never ever forget that day.
Me: I’m done talking about Bottlegate
NFL Throwback: We can’t let that happen.
There's a UA-camr named Ramen Robbie that uploaded a longer version of this.
It shows the players coming back onto the field from the locker rooms.
Gotta feel for the Browns in this. There's a case for the intentional grounding call but that's BS going to the previous play!!
Could Imagine Jacksonville Jaguars Against Cleveland Browns From New Chapter In 1994 AFC Central Division Rivalry Thanks For Uploading
Why?
If this would happen today, with how we're all connected digitally. It would be the highlight of the Season
How on earth can you overrule a play from a previous snap when you've already ran another play? This was the worst officiated game ever played in the history of the National Football League.
Announcer: "you're only hurting yourselves by throwing things on the field!!!"
LOL I don't think the fans agree with that statement
11:12 I’m in awe. Absolute unit.
This is forever what Terry McAulay will be known for even if he had an otherwise great officiating career.
The fact that McAulay is the rules analyst for NBC Sunday Night Football is a joke.
I think he is a rules analyst now he should of been fired
The league ordered him to do it.
I dated a woman from Akron who took this SO hard that we stopped seeing each other romantically but still remained friends afterwards.
I love how through all of this crazyness the scoreboard just says 🌲✨*Happy Holidays* ✨🌲
Announcer in 2001: "This is an event that will be talked about.. in Cleveland... at least for the next 6 months!"
UA-camrs in 2024: "Top 10 Biggest disasters in NFL history! Number 1..."
“Welcome to Cleveland town everyone”
Good thing we have a good baseball team.
The fans had every right to throw that
do fans also have the right to almost kill people by throwing bottles at them and severely injuring people
They are plastic
@@jonhenrickson6075
ok so will you allow yourself to be hit with the bottle possibly with liquid still in it. thrown with enough force and possible from above?
@@michaelramirezlongstreet3044How does a plastic bottle kill someone?
I was at this game as a kid (maybe 11 yrs old) - I had won a school contest and was invited to the field before the game. We were given 5th row seats behind the Browns end zone. I'll never forget when this game went sour and the storm of crap that came flying down around us. My parents did all they could to shield myself and my younger brother from the chaos.
After the game, my mother actually got stopped by the media. During the interview, an angry mob of fans surrounded us and started chanting 'bullshit'. My mom, being more upset that her kids had to go through that hell then the outcome of the game itself, got right in this guys face, wagging finger and all, and started telling him off like she was his own mother. That clip wound up on World News tonight with Peter Jennings.
Still my first and only Browns game! Certainly a moment I'll never forget.
Think you could find that clip of your mom?
@@jacobjensen8592 I've looked on and off for the clip through the years. I've never had much luck though
You could try asking your local station, which ever it aired on, if they have a tape from that day's broadcast. They more than likely do. If not a digital copy.
Aww… I wanted to see the subway post game show…
I did not expect an official NFL channel to post this…
Yeah I definitely agree the NFL is trying to forget that game but unfortunately it's part of history. However the next year in the 2002-03 season Cleveland Browns would make the playoffs
NFL Throwback does a great job showing both the good and the bad of NFL history.
The NFL....uploaded this game.
They wanted us to forget about this game, and they uploaded it.
Did not have that on my 2023 bingo card.
Next time the Rams/Saints play each other, NFL Throwback should post the game that happened the night after this game (Bottlegate II)
Next time the browns and Titans play each other, they should show the original bottlegate (Oilers at Browns 1978)
@@levikatriel The original bottlegate was the 1975 "Hail Mary" game when Vikings' fans pelted the refs with bottles over a missed OPI. Worse than any sequel as an official got hit in the head with a bottle in that game.
I was at this game. That minute between the call and the first bottle on the field was the definition of eerie silence.
Honestly one of the craziest endings you'd ever expect to see. I don't ever condone throwing beer bottles on the field but at the same time those Cleveland fans were JUSTIFIED in their anger. There had been some massive referee screw ups before this but I think it's safe to say you can pinpoint this as the beginning of the modern era of officiating where there's at least a handful of really controversial or outright bad reffing in the NFL every year.
Justified??? NEVER!
@@paulhaugen1341 In their anger...Yes, throwing bottles, no.
Should've seen them in action at the infamous 5 cent beer night baseball game between the Indians and rangers😅
It’s like Shea Stadium 1973 Reds vs Mets and Pete Rose
@@paulhaugen1341you weren’t in time back in the days then.
Time flies wow thanks NFL throwback! A real throwback!
I was there that day. Only 10 years old, but that’s a memory that will stick with me forever. Got hit in the head with a bottle too!
This made national news too back then. Was a wild time.
Dang and Imagine If Social Media Was Around Back Then When This Ridiculous Call Happened in Cleveland During This Game?
I wasn't there, but that day I to got hit on the head with a bottle.😁🦴
9:12 for some reason I never payed attention to the Happy Holidays banner on the scoreboard and its cracking me up now.
I was at this game in the opposite side of the stadium. It was also those years we had the Dwayne Rudd helmet game and Orlando Brown getting a penalty flag into the eyeball which ended his career. All home games. Not exactly the history we were hoping for
Watched this live with my grandparents. Fans took over tv cameras and started cussing live lol
Cleveland fans should be ashamed of themselves. They didn't hit a single ref with those bottles.
What a stupid call. You literally can't challenge a play after another one is ran.
I can understand both sides of the argument. I think the referees could have done a better job of letting the fans know what was going on, and the fans shouldn't have been throwing bottles into the stadium.
A Gate that Doesn't involve the Patriots is Pretty Rare.
I was there. It was shockingly dangerous as full bottles from the upper decks were raining down us in the lower decks. What you don't see in this clip is the riot that basically happened outside as they ran the final plays and fans were trying to get back in...
They posted this because the Browns are playing the Jaguars this Sunday in a game with playoff implications. 👍 Only reason they chose to remind us all
What are the odds this Sunday's game also has a controversial ending?
Giving the ball the Jacksonville was unfair. It should have been 2nd and 20 for the browns. Also nice to see 0:28 number 88 keeping his head in the game. If you want to run a spike the ball needs to be placed TOOT SWEET.
The officiating during the 2023 season makes this moment look normal.
I wish the referees would just tell the audience at the start of each game which team is going to win,
Because with their horribly calls each and every game they are clearly fixing games to a predetermined outcome.
This was cathartic to watch
I understand why Cleveland beat my Jags this past Sunday now. We owed them one.
The most Cleveland Browns ending to a game ever.
Best part was I believe they were asked to go back out there and take one more knee to run out the 48 seconds. Per the NFL commissioners office
9:11
“Happy Holidays”
Jax:15
CLE:10
“Enjoy the win”
December 16, 2001: The day Sept. 11 perspective died.
looks like a typical Chiefs End Game Call
This cemented what everyone already knew: the NFL absolutely hates Cleveland and does not want them to succeed.
Refs have it out for Cleveland. They even nearly ended the career of Orlando Brown by throwing a flag forcefully into his eye.
NFL hates Cleveland to. The awarded the new Browns to Al Lerner who helped Art Modell move the team in the first place. Got the ball rolling for him
Bad for business for "The browns" to win.
"Happy Holidays" LMAO
I never thought the NFL would post this situation. It's their Malice at the palace
NFL screwed this up royally. They should have given the 1st down and then called intentional grounding making it 2nd and 20. They do that and we aren’t talking about this game 20 years later
8:49 That is the end of the game!
This is what can happen when those officials screw teams out of wins
Tbf, it wasn’t a catch lol
@@Eli-ss9gjdoesn’t matter. If you run another play after that then it’s unreviewable
@@benjaminjones9035they said they buzzed before the play was run. Either way, it wasn’t a catch, like I said.
@@Eli-ss9gjeven though they clearly didn't. There was no whistle before the play, just listen!
@@Eli-ss9gj
It doesn’t matter whether they buzzed or if their was a malfunction. The play was ran. You can’t back track after the fact. That’s why this never happened again.
I remember that game. That was wild
"The fans have to be smarter than that."
LOL
Yes. If you want to get something done, don't throw bottles, rush the field.
I was waiting for this. After losing to the pats the week before. This was the last chance the browns had at the playoffs.
As a Giants fan I can’t judge-we once pelted the Chargers with snowballs in the last game of the 1995 season.
Snowballs with batteries..🤣
and THIS is the reason I let the expletives fly any time the ‘booth official’ gets called in during SNF. Browns got screwed!
This is what happens when the refs break the rules. The next play started and was completed. You can no longer review the previous play. That was the rule then, that’s the rule now. People blame the fans and ignore why they reacted the way they did.
Refs don’t break rules. Or follow them. They enforce the rules, or not.
There are rules for players, and different rules for refs. The rule for reviewing a completed catch on the previous play was broken - by the refs
This was my first NFL game. I was 6, thanks NFL.
that's funny
What a great intro to the NFL lol
I was at this game as a kid with really good tickets my dad got from work on the side of the end zone. When the bottles started flying, we got up to leave and a fraction of a second after standing up a FULL bottle slammed into my dads seat. Could have really hurt him.
They were plastic
Fast forward 22 years: 4,782 high definition cameras in every stadium, the league seemingly not able to define what a catch is, rules to protect players being selectively enforced, selectively thrown penalty flags that more often than not favor a marketable star, and after 10 minutes of reviewing a play that it takes the average human watching the game 10 seconds to get the call correct - the officials STILL get it wrong. Man, replay really made the game better.
More than 4,782 HD cameras - every phone is an HD camera.
@@bblande I was exaggerating the number of cameras the broadcast networks use.
You can see right at @0:42 when the official got buzzed. Clearly after the play started. Officiating was trash back then and has even gotten worse today.
Let’s not kid ourselves the refs are still this bad.
Should've been 1 & goal at the 20. They already snapped the ball, the last play was too close to overturn, but the quarterback did commit intentional grounding. And I think this was before the 10 second runoff was introduced.
Obviously the fans shouldn't throw stuff on the field but another play was run, that's that. It doesn't matter why another play was run, once it's run, there's no review possible. They were right to be irate (btw, I'm a Vikings fan, no dog in the fight).
And nothing has really changed,now they giving the Chiefs extra downs because of "Clock Errors"
Whole bottle of liquor on the field at 9:55 lol
I was there. The place was absolutely furious. We were still playoff hopeful. I remember being furious not only at the call but Tom Coughlin was out so far onto the field the Jags should've been penalized. And yes, I had a bottle that I'd found but I didn't throw it. i was too high up and away from the field.
The rule should be that if the radio communications go down the game continues. They use the on field refs as the final decision. Just like the good old days before off field people with 20 replays can reverse the on field call. If they didn't get their coms working again to alert the on field refs the game would have continued. Once another play was executed, by the rules, they can't go back to review the previous play. So it does look like cheating if they don't follow the rules. So the bottles flew. And stopping the game was wrong. Fumbles do happen.
Browns fans were absolutely justified in this situation.
Still a very classic and iconic moment in football history!
Assault over a football game is not justified my guy
@@kelvinmustafa2710yes it is. Fuck em
@@kelvinmustafa2710 tell that to Myles Garrett
The origins of NFL officiating being the deciding outcome in games
Boy I’m glad the guy kept explaining refs don’t usually review calls once another play has been run. I was having such a hard time understanding.
It was the beginning for of the replay era… a mix of excitement and really not understanding how to utilize this game changing tool. Weird pet peeve to have here…
In addition to the previous comment, you forget this was live television. People were tuning in trying to figure out wtf was going.
“A call that will be talked about for the next six months”
Bro it’s been damn near 25 years, and we still aren’t over this call 😂