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@@Fadem12forReal So by this logic, every UA-camr who uses like/subscribe animations in their videos, is a subscribe whore? Dumbest thing I've ever heard.
It would be very polite and added value of yours if you briefly wrap up the contents in video desription so for example not native english have sooner and clearer picture what happened and what "bottlegate" is about. Just sayin
@@120mmsmoothbore2 Dude.. You wouldn't want to be a fan of the opposite team when a bunch of drunk people who's beloved home team just got robbed by the refs breaking their own rules (by going back two plays without a whistle being blown) of any chance to win (at the very end of the game) at home field. You would NOT want to be a jag fan at that time and would be wise to take that jersey off ASAP. If you think this is something that only applies to football however, then you would be sadly mistaken as humans are very passionate/emotional creatures in general (especially after a few inhibition breaking drinks)..
@@120mmsmoothbore2drunk people often start fights over nothing. These people were legitimately angry and in a crowd/mob situation/mentality, people often forget the consequences or assume that the crime can't be pinned on them because "everyone was doing it." So yes, there is a distinct likelihood that any visiting Jags fans were jumped that day.
Try DECADES. With the history of the hard luck Browns, this is the single worst call against them, or any team, I have ever seen. Those officials were lucky to escape with their lives. And I say that without a hint of exaggeration.
The commentary from the booth here was fantastic btw. Seen similar controversial calls and booths bend over backwards defending the refs. This booth absolutely nailed this
Rice Waster Aleks there’s multiple times every year this shit happens. Just look at the damn saints getting screwed they should’ve been on the field killing refs.
And think about it also 20+ years later who was the head ref for this game. Terry McAulay who currently works as rules official for NBC on Sunday night football 🤦
This could never happened today but think about all the money it would be in beer. Went to a Panthers game last year 7 bucks for a small cup of piss 10 something after taxes for a bottle of something decent. *Chugs 2 beers back to back cause I wanna throw them but not waste them*
@@michaelantonucci9890 would you be "salty" if the ravens moved changed theyre name then won a super bowl and the team you got in replacement sucked for 20 years
I was never a browns fan, but if i were the coach, I would have sent my offense back out on the field and had them take the ball hostage by acting as if we were running second down after the spike. And I would have taken the fines for doing it. That call was ludicrous.
Everyone focuses on the outlashing of the fans, but no one remembers that the refs broke their own rule by turning over a play that happened 2 snaps ago.
And I don't even need to have any notion of what the NFL "rulebook" says about this. You can show this to any spectator, player or referee, of any team sport on planet Earth, and 99% of them will tell you, that once a referee has made a ruling, he can only self-diagnose his incompetence by going back to that ruling, after allowing the game to resume until another referee's decision had to be made, and then bring it up again. The spiking of the ball wasn't even addressed, but without it this revision of an earlier ruling wouldn't have taken place and that's why the audience perceived the referee's behaviour as arbitrary retaliation towards the players in response to a mistake he was responsible for. And then calling the game, and be ordered back onto the field by a higher ranking official, made it even worse, as it is the second time the officials refute their own decision that led to the current situation and thereby declare themselves unable to take responsibility for their own actions.
I remember this well. McAulay had a history of really poor calls. He quit in shame in 2015. I was at a Browns game in 1989 and the Dawg Pound was throwing so many D batteries at the Broncos they had to play the entire game on the other half of the field.
I had a teacher that was at this game and said he wanted to throw a bottle onto the field just to say he did it and his bottle ended up accidentally hitting a guy on the sideline that was running by. Needless to say he felt terrible about it. 😂😂😂
To give extra context to this, a few weeks prior, the Browns were playing the Bears, and on the 2nd to last drive, the Bears completed a pass as ruled on the field, and ran another play before replay rang down to the officials. The ref stated that a play was run so the prior completion couldn't be reviewed. So now you have a case where an iffy call a few weeks ago wasn't reviewed because of how late the notice was, and now the exact same things happen here...and they go back and review it after the spike was run. Total incompetence by the officials.
The refs deserved exactly what the crowd did. Screw the announcers for admonishing the fans. They could have rushed the field and ripped the officials to shreds. The fact they didnt shows how classy they were. The announcers should have complimented the fans for showing restraint.
I'm a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan. Other teams in the 80s hated playing Cleveland at home due to the Dawg pound. When we used to bombard the opposing team with snowballs..lmao. Awesome
The growing tension, knowing what’s going to happen, and the refs stupid decisions in the build up, all with amazing commentary just makes it so I can’t help but laugh as I watch this
The nfl sucks, i still back my team, go raiders, but like seriously how many dumbasses are there to mess up a game, let alone a game that would determine who would stay in the playoffs
@@tonyacasdrummer on the bright side, you guys never get any tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods or any natural disasters unlike most of the country is at risk for
I remember watching this in disgust on TV. I’ve never seen the refs screw a team so brazenly. That is until the 2018 NFC championship game, which, as I die hard Saints fan, I attended. I’ll be bitter about that game until the day I die.
david brossett NBC has always been a garbage station in favor of corruption..... look at the retarded news reporting on the mueller report from msnbc..... they also claimed Cain had an affair, 7 years later still no evidence and MSNBC with other liar stations deprived America of having a BLACK PRESIDENT
"A call that I'm sure will be talked about in Cleveland for probably the next 6 months." Exactly 20 years later, it is still being talked about in Cleveland and beyond.
It sure is. People in Cleveland still haven't forgiven Art Modell almost 30 years later. Some of them haven't even forgiven LeBron yet even though he came back and won a championship with the Cavaliers. I didn't expect this to rest. Lol.
@@mayavenuemisfit814 my dad is a true blue diehard Browns fan and I'll NEVER forget the look on his face once he realized they weren't discussing if Couch grounded the ball or not but that they were challenging the pass 2 plays ago. Not surprising they remember tbh
I had the Fox game on TV at the Taco bell restaurant where I worked. I was cleaning my dining room when one of my regular patrons came in and said "Hey Ken! Change the station real quick! They're havin' a riot at the Browns game!". I switched the station and sure enough, all hell had broken loose at that game. My customers and I watched in disbelief at the mayhem going on in the stands. We just couldn't believe our eyes as we watched the refs and other officials were being pelted with bottles, batteries, and anything else the fans could get their hands on. I was cleaning a table and looked up just in time to see a ref get beaned with a bottle. Reminds me of some of the bars I played music at in the late '60s. Only back then, we had chicken wire to protect us from all those glass bottles. I'm surprised that Browns fans didn't try to lynch either the Jaguar players or the refs who officiated that game. A lot of my regulars saw that game and told me about it while ordering a trayful of tacos before the second game got started on Fox. That game was sure something.
Just recounting what happened that day. Obviously the younger generation doesn't know how to tell a story. I, like many others, were witnesses to football history that was made that day. Even outside of Cleveland, they still talk about it even today.
“A call that will probably be talked about in Cleveland for the next 6 months.” Many people outside of Cleveland are talking about it almost 18 years later. EDIT: 19 years later EDIT: 22 years later. Wow I haven't updated this in a while lol.
I was at this game! This game, then New Orleans a few weeks later, resulted in the ban of bottles throughout the NFL. It's also why you have the 2 drink rule (plus malice in the palace) and aluminum bottles with the cap removed.
I was at this game. I was not far from the bone lady. Fans were throwing not only bottles but batteries, and I even saw a few Walkman radios thrown. I left the stadium covered in beer from people from the upper decks trying to throw beer to the field.
Well, it basically guarantees the end of the game so if you're a Browns fan, that's 100% way to lose the game for your team before anything could even be overturned.
throw hard enough you could tear your shoulder or throw your arm out, MLB players are known for throwing out their arms from throwing beer bottles every year.
@@exerciseaccount3271 whereas if they had stood silently by there would be a chance that the Jags bungle taking a knee and running out the clock...? Get real my dude, this was a legitimate form of protest which accomplished merely one thing: to ensure that this moment in the NFL's incompetence and borderline anti-Cleveland-conspiracy is etched into the history of the sport.
@@Heyim18bro It's just much more impactful with the Browns, being that they're a historically shitty team (since their recreation in 99) and one of their few chances at the playoffs was killed by incompetent officiating.
"it's a good thing those bottles are plastic!" Few minutes later "We just saw a guy get hit in the head and he's down, and his head is split wide open"
@@colingordon0986 Too fucking bad. The fans should act like adults, not toddlers that have been told no. It's a game intended to distract us from the real issues and there will be more games next season.
And bottles were never sold again at browns stadium after that day. Cant believe that was Terry McCauley and that he still has a job as a rules analyst.
In 1975 in Dallas/Minnesota playoff game, after what Dallas calls the immaculate reception which was really offensive pass interference, the ref who didn't make the intereference call was deluged by liquor bottles thrown from the stands. One hit him on the head, knocked him out, and he was in coma for 3 days.
I agree, but what wasn't justified was throwing bottles onto the field and eventually hurting somebody... I'm a browns fan, I get it, but you just can't do that and to end the game was the right call
@@austinburlingham0560fellow clevelander here they know how football fans are that may of been the worst sports call I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m not sure if the refs got in trouble for that but they should of.
11:53 "on a call that I'm sure will be talked about in Cleveland for probably the next six months." Fans everywhere still talking about this 22 years later.
Just because the Browns have been hysterically terrible for so long, doesn’t mean every one of their losses is “rigged.“ Find yourself an actual franchise quarterback before you start throwing out conspiracies
@@PlayStation_5247 Don’t you find that sad that writing off a spike play generated so much outrage but 20 years of war didn’t generate this much anger?
Happy Holidays my foot. It was anything but Happy Holidays for America in late 2001. Last time anybody checked, America was still reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist incidents three months earlier.
@@ericradford2142 bush attacked us not bin Laden it would make 0 sence for him to attack a 1st world country when he was at war with the Afghanistan goverment
Steven Sweeden : Yes it’s funny. They fucked over the game and then they act surprised by the fans reaction. Plus they’re in Cleveland and the whole nation knows how dedicated the fans are. What ya gonna do🤷♂️
The absolute worst part of this is that they demanded the players come back out to complete the ritual humiliation after blatantly cheating to fix the game.
I was at this game as a kid. Still the scariest thing ever. The guy next to us always brought a radio to the games, on this day he threw it in the direction of the field. To this day, I wonder who he hit with that radio bc it sure as hell didn’t reach the damn field
Crazy thinking the head referee for this game was Terry McAulay who 20+ years later works as rules official commentator for NBC Sunday night football 🤦♂️
I genuinely think this call should've stood because Morgan seems to get a hand under the ball before he goes down. Not to mention they ran another play. And I'm a Steelers fan. This moment has always fascinated me.
There's no excuse for that. I don't care what the status was with their communication system. Another play was run, end of story. Bad Call, and the referees involved in that fiasco should've been be fired.
For all the screw ups the NFL has caused the Browns, at least they did ONE thing right. The ref that gave the Eagles a touchdown on what was obliviously a false start was fired.
So the commissioner can call the refs and tell them they have to finish the game but yet can't tell them they can't replay a play after another play has been played!
Probably because the bookies only honor the bets if the game is played to completion. That clause is probably in there for concerns about weather, not riots, but all the same, the NFL is all about making Vegas happy. Now they just hide it as "fantasy football".
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@@Fadem12forReal So by this logic, every UA-camr who uses like/subscribe animations in their videos, is a subscribe whore? Dumbest thing I've ever heard.
You "make" these videos? lmfao. MF'er, you steal them.
It would be very polite and added value of yours if you briefly wrap up the contents in video desription so for example not native english have sooner and clearer picture what happened and what "bottlegate" is about. Just sayin
Imagine wearing a Jacksonville Jersey in the stands trying to plan your escape.
Current Objective: Survive
Just keep your head down and keep moving...
Would they really have been hurt?
@@120mmsmoothbore2 Dude.. You wouldn't want to be a fan of the opposite team when a bunch of drunk people who's beloved home team just got robbed by the refs breaking their own rules (by going back two plays without a whistle being blown) of any chance to win (at the very end of the game) at home field. You would NOT want to be a jag fan at that time and would be wise to take that jersey off ASAP. If you think this is something that only applies to football however, then you would be sadly mistaken as humans are very passionate/emotional creatures in general (especially after a few inhibition breaking drinks)..
@@120mmsmoothbore2drunk people often start fights over nothing. These people were legitimately angry and in a crowd/mob situation/mentality, people often forget the consequences or assume that the crime can't be pinned on them because "everyone was doing it." So yes, there is a distinct likelihood that any visiting Jags fans were jumped that day.
"A call in Cleveland that will be talked about for the next 6 months"
Brother you have no idea
UA-cam in 2020: Want to see one of the worst calls in NFL history?
Try DECADES.
With the history of the hard luck Browns, this is the single worst call against them, or any team, I have ever seen.
Those officials were lucky to escape with their lives. And I say that without a hint of exaggeration.
so naive
6? try 20 years
@@kolboy757 for real lol
Gotta love how the fans are chanting “Bullshit….bullshit!” 😂😂😂😂
I would think “Fk the refs” would’ve been more appropriate
I heard "ball snap/snapped", but I can hear "bullshit" too.
I'm also hearing the fans chant bullshit as well
With it being near the Cleveland Dawg pound, guaranteed they were chanting “bullshit!” (with a few other choice words mixed in) 😂
the minute they start chanting that at 9:00 was when we all knew it was only a matter of time before absolute chaos would ensure
The commentary from the booth here was fantastic btw. Seen similar controversial calls and booths bend over backwards defending the refs. This booth absolutely nailed this
That’s because it’s Gus Johnson, the goat of NFL play-by-play. The color commentator (don’t know his name) has always been good too
@@jam1nblumThe other commentator is former 49ers tight end Brent Jones.
@@jam1nblumMore like Goat Johnson
That was a catch fumble recovery, he should’ve kept running!
@@joebill6773incomplete pass.
Jacksonville fans when the game ended
*current objective: SURVIVE*
Fuck dude I couldn't imagine. That's like fearing for your life
I would take off my jersey. Hat. And start complaining about the game, blend in on the way out
I’m a Jacksonville fan and I was at that game. I was crawling around so people wouldn’t see me. 😐
I see you thought that no one would notice that you’re comment was a repost
Shit...imagine this happening in Oakland and you're the opposing team Jersey...Yikes! Cleveland fans are tough but in Raider Nation....shhhh.. lol
The only time fans have ever had a reason to storm the field, and they wasted it
Rice Waster Aleks there’s multiple times every year this shit happens. Just look at the damn saints getting screwed they should’ve been on the field killing refs.
According to the Bottlegate Wikipedia article, "A few fans ran onto the field, but were quickly apprehended by law enforcement."
@@tmtmtlsml
It's because no one said "Avengers!!!....Assemble"
@@tmtmtlsml
"a few Fans"
Hundreds of fans cannot be stopped by this less amount of Officers and security!
S-Train which is why it’s not that good an idea even if you really wanted to do it
Imagine the ref says “that’s the end of the game” then just sticks the middle finger to the fans 💀
🤣🍾
And think about it also 20+ years later who was the head ref for this game. Terry McAulay who currently works as rules official for NBC on Sunday night football 🤦
or refs wave the terrible towel w flags on their way out screaming like will farrell from old school
Ain't that what happened? lol
My favorite part about this is Gus Johnson and Brent Jones having completely different takes on this while ignoring each other 💀
Who was complaining about the fans throwing crap
That was Brent Jones
Well, the concession stands obviously did pretty well on that day.
Pretty sure the fans went back to the concession stands to reload.
Combine Elite Zeta 3-882 I thought the same thing lol. “Give me 50 beers and a radio!”
LOL!!!
This could never happened today but think about all the money it would be in beer. Went to a Panthers game last year 7 bucks for a small cup of piss 10 something after taxes for a bottle of something decent. *Chugs 2 beers back to back cause I wanna throw them but not waste them*
@@terminator1199 More like Trash cans xD Concessions usually are closed by end of game
Announcer: You're only hurting yourself
Fans: Doubtful
(X) Doubt
Fans: Pretty sure we’re also hurting that one guy whose head is bleeding.
Ted ThePilot
Announcer had money on Jacksonville and was happy with the corruption of the refs..... who also had money on Jacksonville......
Lol
I was the one who gave your comment the 1000 thump up
He caught the ball, then fumbled it, but recovered his own fumble
perhaps a few decades too late for that input lolol
“These officials really need to get off the field,” is the truest statement ever made. 😂
I love the fact that the crowd started chanting “bull shit”.
Look up the Ravens bull shit chant it’s even better
@@michaelantonucci9890 why because you stole clevlands team
Samuel McMillin What? No because it’s louder why r u so salty?
@@michaelantonucci9890 would you be "salty" if the ravens moved changed theyre name then won a super bowl and the team you got in replacement sucked for 20 years
Samuel McMillin Yea but what does that have to do with anything that I said about the Ravens chant being better?
Saints Fan: We got robbed of going to the Superbowl
Browns Fan: Throw my beer
LOL
that’s hilarious
Brilliant
chekkitProductions Genius.
Throw my beer 🤣
This is why plastic cups are used now
I was never a browns fan, but if i were the coach, I would have sent my offense back out on the field and had them take the ball hostage by acting as if we were running second down after the spike. And I would have taken the fines for doing it. That call was ludicrous.
Everyone focuses on the outlashing of the fans, but no one remembers that the refs broke their own rule by turning over a play that happened 2 snaps ago.
And I don't even need to have any notion of what the NFL "rulebook" says about this. You can show this to any spectator, player or referee, of any team sport on planet Earth, and 99% of them will tell you, that once a referee has made a ruling, he can only self-diagnose his incompetence by going back to that ruling, after allowing the game to resume until another referee's decision had to be made, and then bring it up again.
The spiking of the ball wasn't even addressed, but without it this revision of an earlier ruling wouldn't have taken place and that's why the audience perceived the referee's behaviour as arbitrary retaliation towards the players in response to a mistake he was responsible for.
And then calling the game, and be ordered back onto the field by a higher ranking official, made it even worse, as it is the second time the officials refute their own decision that led to the current situation and thereby declare themselves unable to take responsibility for their own actions.
Shadow Man
Let me guess. You consider yourself “woke”
Yeah wtf that can’t be allowed
@@Ryan_Winter Australian here, no idea about any rules for this but the call is clearly bullshit.
@MikeFM4 let me guess you’re inbred Trump trash
Not even a Brown's fan and I feel pissed
Same brother
Same homie
as a jags fan, I find this funny as hell but also pissed at the shit ref's
I'm a Lions fan and I understand the pain
XXDoubleHHXX honestly same here
I remember this well. McAulay had a history of really poor calls. He quit in shame in 2015. I was at a Browns game in 1989 and the Dawg Pound was throwing so many D batteries at the Broncos they had to play the entire game on the other half of the field.
It was after the 2017 season.
@@brandontaylor-gh6emthe irony
Terrible McCally 😂
I had a teacher that was at this game and said he wanted to throw a bottle onto the field just to say he did it and his bottle ended up accidentally hitting a guy on the sideline that was running by. Needless to say he felt terrible about it. 😂😂😂
He wanted to be in the shit. Now he’s in the shit
I think they talk about him at 10:33 😂
@@thedarkknight9153 omg 😭💀
To give extra context to this, a few weeks prior, the Browns were playing the Bears, and on the 2nd to last drive, the Bears completed a pass as ruled on the field, and ran another play before replay rang down to the officials. The ref stated that a play was run so the prior completion couldn't be reviewed. So now you have a case where an iffy call a few weeks ago wasn't reviewed because of how late the notice was, and now the exact same things happen here...and they go back and review it after the spike was run. Total incompetence by the officials.
Thank you for that extra context.
Just more proof how biased the NFL is against the Browns.
@@Jarock316 Have you seen the Browns' uniforms? "God don't like ugly."
The refs deserved exactly what the crowd did. Screw the announcers for admonishing the fans. They could have rushed the field and ripped the officials to shreds. The fact they didnt shows how classy they were. The announcers should have complimented the fans for showing restraint.
@@jmogler You're really, really bad at trolling.
“Luckily those bottles are plastic” bottle shatters on camera
Toph Dick he’s quoting the announcer around 7:15
right, this was why they switched to plastic bottles
**Greta thunberg how dare you**
@enkadu007 What kind of low-life makes fun of a 16-year-old for wanting an environmental change.
@@Samuelpiang511 she's 16? Home girl lookin early 30s lmao
I'm a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan. Other teams in the 80s hated playing Cleveland at home due to the Dawg pound. When we used to bombard the opposing team with snowballs..lmao. Awesome
The growing tension, knowing what’s going to happen, and the refs stupid decisions in the build up, all with amazing commentary just makes it so I can’t help but laugh as I watch this
"A call that I'm sure will be talked about in Cleveland, for probably the next six months" more like the next six decades.
Yup! LOL!
More like 20 yrs.
Lol I read this at the exact same the video said it
More like 6 centuries
@@JoshuaHam In the year 10,019 A.D., they will still be talking about this in Cleveland.
Another play ran, the last play is irrelevant. I don't care how they look at it. Cleveland was screwed by the NFL.
Is there actually a professional league on earth NOT plagued by inconsistent and/or utterly backwards and/or just plain terrible officiating?
@@plasticwrapcharlie maybe ping pong?
The nfl sucks, i still back my team, go raiders, but like seriously how many dumbasses are there to mess up a game, let alone a game that would determine who would stay in the playoffs
I’m not even a Browns fan but rules are rules. If another play is ran you can’t review the previous play. That’s how it’s always been. Period.
He had possession anyway. He had the ball secured and got 2 steps before he went down. It was good. I smell a dirty Ref.
21:10 "Are we on the air? Take mix/minus out of my ear!!!" Gus was so worked up this game.
Yup lol
this here is a prime example of "i wont condone their actions, but i wont condem them for it either"
I love at the end when they show the final score how it says Happy Hoilidays with the field covered in bottles and the fans chanting bullshit lol
I fucking love America
Shadow Man you’re actually restarted aren’t you?
@@ThePatrioticTurtle This is why I fucking love UA-cam comments
The best game i've ever been to.
Jonathan Kubacki yah
"Its getting ugly here in cleveland"
*Its always ugly in cleveland*
Sounds like the antithesis to its always sunny in phily
May we remem ¢30 beer night
"Fun times in Cleveland todaaaay, it's CLEVELAND!"
Coming from a Cleveland native.....you are correct.
@@tonyacasdrummer on the bright side, you guys never get any tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods or any natural disasters unlike most of the country is at risk for
I remember watching this in disgust on TV. I’ve never seen the refs screw a team so brazenly. That is until the 2018 NFC championship game, which, as I die hard Saints fan, I attended. I’ll be bitter about that game until the day I die.
That was awful. I feel you
I watched Greenbay get fucked by the Seattle during the replacement refs. Ugh.
How that wasn't called a PI is just insanity.
Cry about it. Bad calls happen all the time, play better. Don’t let it come down to the refs.
@@mehoymenoy8841i agree, but that was such an obvious call in a pivotal moment, not calling a pi there literally cost them a chance at the super bowl
Now let me see a replay of Terry Bradshaw sticking up for the Browns fans after the game! I only ever got to see that once!
I didn't think one of the co-conspirators behind the "Immaculate Reception" gave a shit about Browns fans. 😒
Friendly reminder that the referee in this game is now the rules expert for the nbc broadcast
That explains a lot about today’s nfl lmao
That literally explains a lot
Definitely rigged
What the fuck how
david brossett
NBC has always been a garbage station in favor of corruption..... look at the retarded news reporting on the mueller report from msnbc..... they also claimed Cain had an affair, 7 years later still no evidence and MSNBC with other liar stations deprived America of having a BLACK PRESIDENT
"A call that I'm sure will be talked about in Cleveland for probably the next 6 months."
Exactly 20 years later, it is still being talked about in Cleveland and beyond.
It sure is. People in Cleveland still haven't forgiven Art Modell almost 30 years later. Some of them haven't even forgiven LeBron yet even though he came back and won a championship with the Cavaliers. I didn't expect this to rest. Lol.
@@mayavenuemisfit814 my dad is a true blue diehard Browns fan and I'll NEVER forget the look on his face once he realized they weren't discussing if Couch grounded the ball or not but that they were challenging the pass 2 plays ago. Not surprising they remember tbh
No one talks about this outside Cleveland. Everyone else knows the Browns winning or losing a game is totally meaningless b/c it’s the fucking Browns.
Biggest Bust Dookie call in sports period.
@@junghunt8645jeez i thought the Titans had bad luck lol
So glad you uploaded this, so we could watch this historic NFL event in real time.
Did the refs get in trouble after that game?
I do not have anything against browns fans for doing this. Absolutely deserved after that call.
"the players are gonna get hurt" they were aiming for the ref.
Players are fine, they got all the gear to protect them 😂
And I'm sure their aim is impeccable
In general, everyone was gonna get hurt
They were throwing some at the Jacksonville bench to
Yeah but drunks are bad throw Aimers
I just threw my beer bottle at my phone.
lol
Norman Leach lol
@Jonny Croxville *WOOSH*
This made me lool
@Jonny Croxville lol okay
I had the Fox game on TV at
the Taco bell restaurant where I worked. I was cleaning my dining room when one of my regular
patrons came in and said
"Hey Ken! Change the station real quick! They're
havin' a riot at the Browns
game!". I switched the station and sure enough, all
hell had broken loose at that game. My customers
and I watched in disbelief
at the mayhem going on in the stands. We just couldn't
believe our eyes as we watched the refs and other
officials were being pelted
with bottles, batteries, and
anything else the fans could
get their hands on. I was cleaning a table and looked
up just in time to see a ref
get beaned with a bottle.
Reminds me of some of the
bars I played music at in the
late '60s. Only back then, we had chicken wire to
protect us from all those
glass bottles. I'm surprised
that Browns fans didn't try to lynch either the Jaguar
players or the refs who officiated that game. A lot of my regulars saw that game and told me about it
while ordering a trayful of
tacos before the second
game got started on Fox.
That game was sure something.
What is it with boomers sharing their life story in youtube comments?😂
@@shitpostmalone5341idk, definitely found this an interesting read. Thanks for the story OP
Just recounting what happened that day. Obviously the younger
generation doesn't know how
to tell a story. I, like many
others, were witnesses to
football history that was made that day. Even outside
of Cleveland, they still talk
about it even today.
Now you was all right until you started talking about the younger generation. Don't lump this one weirdo in with the rest of us.
@@shitpostmalone5341what is it with most millennials and gen z kids being disrespectful c*nts.
I remember being at this game with my dad and brother. Who knew we were watching history being made!
“A call that will probably be talked about in Cleveland for the next 6 months.” Many people outside of Cleveland are talking about it almost 18 years later.
EDIT: 19 years later
EDIT: 22 years later. Wow I haven't updated this in a while lol.
Nerd 0208 Love your pic, Go Bills Go Sabres!
NobesBLO13 Hell yeah!
Nerd 0208 I see u everywhere
Stikbot ANIMATION TIME how? Are you stalking me? Lol😂
The officials of the NFL at that time decide to be Republican about it in my opinion and I may be wrong about that.
I remember my dad swearing up and down on how the NFL is rigged over that game. We ate SpaghettiOs at Christmas.
@@BuhBuhBoomer his dad lost money
Rigged? For the jags? Lol what a joke
I lol'd but that's really sad
Amero UH OH SPAGHETTIOS!!!
Gabe Good thanks for clarifying the punchline 😂. I was trying to figure out what the joke about spaghettios was. Thanks.
Oh the irony. After he retired in 2018, McAulay became a RULES ANALYST FOR NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL.
I was at this game!
This game, then New Orleans a few weeks later, resulted in the ban of bottles throughout the NFL. It's also why you have the 2 drink rule (plus malice in the palace) and aluminum bottles with the cap removed.
Wasn't the New Orleans bottlegate the day after this?
@@baronbrrrrett it may have been. I just know their game happened after ours lol.
@@Fiorta yeah lol
Im more surprised at the fact that there was no commercial played every 30 seconds.
Because They Dont Have Money:/
@@mr.champion2169 No, it's because they actually cared about entertaining their fans instead of forcing ads down their throats.
@@chancerbox1935 Oh Okay MB
@@mr.champion2169 CBS?
Remember when UA-cam didn't have endless ads?
HOLD MY BEER!
NOW THROW IT SON!
This comment is underated.
Drunk fans they should know better.
Too late. It's on the field
More like, Hold my be...wait, it's already on the field?
So me
I was at this game. I was not far from the bone lady. Fans were throwing not only bottles but batteries, and I even saw a few Walkman radios thrown. I left the stadium covered in beer from people from the upper decks trying to throw beer to the field.
13:00 I loved how the commentator just straight up called out the refs bullshit explanation. Wish we saw more of that today.
"you're only hurting yourself by throwing stuff" ..... I dont think this guy understand gravity
Well, it basically guarantees the end of the game so if you're a Browns fan, that's 100% way to lose the game for your team before anything could even be overturned.
Lol
Depends on where you throw it...str8 up
throw hard enough you could tear your shoulder or throw your arm out, MLB players are known for throwing out their arms from throwing beer bottles every year.
@@exerciseaccount3271 whereas if they had stood silently by there would be a chance that the Jags bungle taking a knee and running out the clock...? Get real my dude, this was a legitimate form of protest which accomplished merely one thing: to ensure that this moment in the NFL's incompetence and borderline anti-Cleveland-conspiracy is etched into the history of the sport.
So basically the refs broke their own rules...
Then they tried to rewrite history lol
I've never seen a sport where this doesn't happen
@@Heyim18bro It's just much more impactful with the Browns, being that they're a historically shitty team (since their recreation in 99) and one of their few chances at the playoffs was killed by incompetent officiating.
Yes
@@NippleSauce Understatement! One 10-6 season and no winning seasons before or after.
The most Browns thing ever...
Wasting perfectly good beer.
Totally valid response by the fans
not really no
^ Jags fan@@frostedhams
No way man. Absolutely disgusting behavior by the fans to throw bottles onto the field. Never acceptable.
except that time@@greencm7142
@@greencm7142 cope, glowie
"it's a good thing those bottles are plastic!"
Few minutes later
"We just saw a guy get hit in the head and he's down, and his head is split wide open"
Full plastic bottle
The said it was a radio!
@@XCodeHelpHub 😂😂😂
Probably hit him with a dirty tampon
i heard someone else say it was a walkman that hit him
“Good thing those bottles are plastic”
“Fans need to stop throwing bottles one guy just spilt his head”
Lmao
It was a "walkman" that he got hit with.
@Leland Carpenter watch the whole thing. He says it was a radio afterwards
But plastic or not, if they were full or half full, that would do it!!
Brendon DeRosia I’d be pissed as well! The refs basically raped the browns in the ass! And cost them a chance at the playoffs
@@colingordon0986 Too fucking bad. The fans should act like adults, not toddlers that have been told no. It's a game intended to distract us from the real issues and there will be more games next season.
And bottles were never sold again at browns stadium after that day. Cant believe that was Terry McCauley and that he still has a job as a rules analyst.
He went on to ref 3 superbowls!!
In 1975 in Dallas/Minnesota playoff game, after what Dallas calls the immaculate reception which was really offensive pass interference, the ref who didn't make the intereference call was deluged by liquor bottles thrown from the stands. One hit him on the head, knocked him out, and he was in coma for 3 days.
Cleveland's anger is completely justified. The refs broke their own damn rules just to screw the Browns over!
I agree, but what wasn't justified was throwing bottles onto the field and eventually hurting somebody... I'm a browns fan, I get it, but you just can't do that and to end the game was the right call
Anger yes, throwing glass bottles at people no
@@theprettybond159they were plastic.
@@austinburlingham0560fellow clevelander here they know how football fans are that may of been the worst sports call I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m not sure if the refs got in trouble for that but they should of.
happens every single year bro.. every year. this year is the first year weve ever got smoe calls go for us.
I was not planning to watch this for more than 2 minutes. 21 minutes in, I'm beginning to think I'll finish it.
yooo u read my mind i just scrolled down to comments and im halfway through haha
@@ryanhanock I'm deadass right in the middle watching this too 😂😂
I guarantee this comment is true for 95% of viewers
I got till about the 12 minute mark
I didnt even realize it was that long until i read this comment
11:53 "on a call that I'm sure will be talked about in Cleveland for probably the next six months."
Fans everywhere still talking about this 22 years later.
This is a prime example of someone being wrong, knowing it, but digging in their heels anyway.
That spike/intentional grounding by Couch might be the only play in nfl history that never happened.
And that offsides/false start in the Colts-Steelers 2005 playoff game.
Facts
Potentially a whole bunch of plays from the 1-2-2023 Bills @ Bengals game.
@@keithvanhouw8790 haha true
spiderman no way home< Can you get challenge on a play that happen in the first half? i mean where is the limit of going back and challenge?
Everyone who knows the rules: "We had a deal!"
The Refs: "I've altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it further."
Nice "The Empire Strikes Back" reference
@@normanwaterman9877 Lando Calrissian!!
"You must also wear this dress and bonnet and refer to yourself as Mary"
It would have unfortunate if NFL had to send a garrison there.
Do you feel that you’ve been treated unfairly?
You can feel the slow decent into insanity
NFL has always had it out for the browns, literally rigging their games to this day
Just because the Browns have been hysterically terrible for so long, doesn’t mean every one of their losses is “rigged.“ Find yourself an actual franchise quarterback before you start throwing out conspiracies
@@stevencramsie9172 idk bro seems rigged to me
Same for Lions. They always been against them
@@melaninking199at least the Lions are in the NFC Championship game
Steelers vs browns fight happens...
UA-cam Recommendations: Cleveland Browns Bottlegate.
Rich752C The refs are pieces of shit. I would be throwing shit if I saw this happen to my Brownie bois nowadays.
Imagine falling asleep at the begining of the game and wake up to this
My response would be what the hell did I miss
timmy saying daddy did we win
Lead Referee "I dont get paid enough for this shiii, Im callin it"
"A decision that will be talked about for the next six months.."
Still talked about in 2020..
2021...
@@charlieh1932 almost 20 years since this scandal happened
2021 even
August 2021
@@PlayStation_5247
Don’t you find that sad that writing off a spike play generated so much outrage but 20 years of war didn’t generate this much anger?
11:58 the "Happy Holidays" box score with all the shit on field has me cracking up
Happy Holidays my foot. It was anything but Happy Holidays for America in late 2001. Last time anybody checked, America was still reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist incidents three months earlier.
@@ericradford2142 what’re you talking about? Christmas is always a happy time
@@buttmunch397 It wasn’t for America in late 2001.
@@buttmunch397 bro i highly doubt many were cheerful when a few months prior we got attacked
@@ericradford2142 bush attacked us not bin Laden it would make 0 sence for him to attack a 1st world country when he was at war with the Afghanistan goverment
"Knock it off!! This isn't Cleveland!!" - Bengals coach Sam Wyche
"You don't live in Cleveland! You live in Cincinnati!"
Sam Wyche, 1989
What a great moment in Cleveland sports history! That town never fails to satisfy lmao. Subscribing.
That "Happy Holidays" graphic at the end kills me every time.
It was anything but Happy Holidays for America in late 2001.
@@ericradford2142yup! The religion of peace committed the worst terrorist attack ever in human history.
@@heyitsme1534 Sept. 11 took the joy out of the holidays for America
I’d like to know if they actually buzzed or looked at it late.
@@ericradford2142 - Indeed, it was a very sad year. It took some people years to recover, and some people never recovered.
"Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!"
[Boom-Boom!] Bullshit! - Ravens/Patriots 2012. Which pales in comparison to this.
The Oilers “bullshit” from 2013 tops it.
You meant: "Bullshit! Bullshit!! Bullshit!!! Bullshit!!!!"
and they're not wrong
Yes, yes...yes........👁️👁️😣🤔😎🐰🐇🍀
I was at this game, and this happened right in front of me....this video does not come close to how many bottles were being thrown. it was cra cra
what was the biggest thing you saw get thrown?
Cleveland basically just got robbed, I remember seeing this on broadcast back in 2001. I was 5 years old at the time.
2019: Refs are still as unorganized as ever...
Real_Sgt_Tom I know right?
Like that super 53 pass interference
FACTS
Maybe you should ref, and fix it!
They make like 1 mistake a year, and make thousands of calls, I guarantee you couldn’t do it!
Canadian football #58 1 mistake a year? Lmao that’s the most inaccurate thing I’ve ever read
The officials cowering as they ran up the tunnel was hilarious
But it was pretty funny 🤣🤣
Shit had me crying
Hey, someone throws a bottle at ur head, whatcha gonna do ?
Dennis Andry : Recall the bullshit call.
Steven Sweeden : Yes it’s funny. They fucked over the game and then they act surprised by the fans reaction. Plus they’re in Cleveland and the whole nation knows how dedicated the fans are. What ya gonna do🤷♂️
The absolute worst part of this is that they demanded the players come back out to complete the ritual humiliation after blatantly cheating to fix the game.
I was at this game, and my dad and I had to restrain my older brother from throwing a folding chair lol.
Wish I could of been at this game we never get any luck here in the Land brother
The Browns should have refused to go back on the field, take the forfeit, then challenge the ruling.
The commissioner is allowed to modify a ruling in a game when there is something as categorically unfair as this
They were mad because whoever lost was eliminated because there was 31 team (to “much”) but they let browns back in like in 2000
@@potatohead826 Except Jacksonville was already eliminated from the playoffs before this game.
in all honesty they helped the cleaning crew but throwing all their trash in a centralized area
I mean I would too. Yeah I threw my bottle at the people who fucked the game up. The cleaning crew didnt do anything, so might as well help them.
I’m not going to like this comment 👀
That's why they did it. They decided it was now time to leave and being from Cleveland and thus upright citizens, they wanted to help out.
"Split his head wide open " I'm sure that's a huge exaggeration
You stay classy Cleveland, you told those refs how shitty they were. I completely sympathize and understand that.
I was at this game as a kid. Still the scariest thing ever. The guy next to us always brought a radio to the games, on this day he threw it in the direction of the field. To this day, I wonder who he hit with that radio bc it sure as hell didn’t reach the damn field
Could it be the radio mentioned at 12:11?
@@That1BVP possibly
Scariest thing for me was being a 14yo white kid in my freshman year and being chased and beaten by 4 adult black men because I was white.
@@heyitsme1534 bro what
@@heyitsme1534 🪤
"Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit Bullshit"
That's The Loudest Manure Chant I Ever Heard.
Reminds me of the 80's.
SO TRUE! That was bullshit! Now we might have a chance now with Dan6erous!!!!!!!
Don’t mess with Browns fans, or the Dawg pound will come after you!!!
What warms my heart is the fact that it was on broadcast television.
Crazy thinking the head referee for this game was Terry McAulay who 20+ years later works as rules official commentator for NBC Sunday night football 🤦♂️
I genuinely think this call should've stood because Morgan seems to get a hand under the ball before he goes down. Not to mention they ran another play.
And I'm a Steelers fan.
This moment has always fascinated me.
Props to the guy selling beer that day, looks like he made a fortune.
Lmao 🤣 🤣
There's no excuse for that. I don't care what the status was with their communication system. Another play was run, end of story.
Bad Call, and the referees involved in that fiasco should've been be fired.
It was Terry McCauley. He ended up having the best officiating crew in the nfl. He did screw hardcore on this though
@@kelseahunter1812 still deserved to get fired. Doesn't matter how good your crew is, you can't make up rules during the game.
English goof. guess we could have had a soccer riot. lol
@Minnesota Vi-KINGS GOD DAMN MAN. I think firing is good enough.
Had us in the first half not gonna lie
Love the VHS 📼 ! 😆
The way this commentator skewers the ref would never happen today. Refreshing
Everytime the NFL apologizes for these refs, I think of the DP Oil meme from South Park.
"We're sorry."
Now I can’t get the image of Godell spread out on a bear skin rug in front of a fire. Thanks.
Lmao "DP"
- nipple rubbing intensifies -
For all the screw ups the NFL has caused the Browns, at least they did ONE thing right. The ref that gave the Eagles a touchdown on what was obliviously a false start was fired.
So the commissioner can call the refs and tell them they have to finish the game but yet can't tell them they can't replay a play after another play has been played!
Probably because the bookies only honor the bets if the game is played to completion. That clause is probably in there for concerns about weather, not riots, but all the same, the NFL is all about making Vegas happy. Now they just hide it as "fantasy football".
What a rigged game. Smh. Commissioner fail.
"And the officials are PUMMELED, as they head into the locker room." 😅
The commentator be like: Let's show you once again
Not a Browns fan but this is just another sign of how loyal Browns fans are
Very loyal and very protective of ours
Yes we are
I'm a 49ers fan but this video shows the loyalty of all fans in Cleveland. The only worse I can think of is Cowboys fans, when their team loses bad
@@anthonyvasquez6113 Go 49ers!
@@thegreyavenger2 Oh yeah
2001 was such an impactful year in sports!
Bottlegate, tuck rule, 116 win Mariners season, Dale Sr death, WCW ended, etc...
....my Orioles losing nearly 100 games....my Ravens winning the Super Bowl....
9/11, Korey Stringer’s death in training camp.
@@TuxEarth pats won the super bowl ravens won in 2000 not 2001
@@Hogg342 Nope. It was the 2000 season but the date of the Super Bowl was in 2001.
911
1:31 "Hey Coughlin, get off the field"
Gotta love Browns fans, LOL :)
Football the only sport turning 48 seconds into a 30-45 min. fiasco!