I'm 67 years old now. Old as dirt. My favorite quarterback will always be Bernie. He WANTED to play for the BROWNS. Let that one sink in... I grew up a Lions fan but moved to Toledo in '78. Went from frying pan into the fire, falling in love with Cleveland and the Browns Thanks Cardiac Kids... So many heartaches. But the magical moments Bernie gave us will never be topped. He was one of a kind. Could pick apart a defense like a computer. And that praying mantis drop back and laser accuracy. Bernie was somethin else. God Bless him.
@@boogitybear2283 I moved to Toledo in 78. Previously another Lions fan, suffering per usual. Worked bartending and Lions games were normally blacked out because of playing in that cavern in Pontiac. Brian Sipe and the Kardiac Kids and I was suckered in. Then it was Bernie Kosar (moment of reverence...) and the Dawgs of Defense. Had my heart broken every way manageable and still here I am... Lions are my 1a though. Love that they got DPJ, kids still got juice.
Most people outside of Cleveland don't understand how close to a true dynasty those Browns teams were. In both '86 and '87 they were one play away from the Super Bowl, in '88 Browns were favored to win the AFC but he got hurt and they still made the playoffs, in '89 they were one quarter away from the Super Bowl.
Im a niners fan since '97 and from the Bay Area and we knew the browns were the best afc team in the late 80s. they deserved to represent the afc those years in the sb..
I feel like they were as good as Cincinnati was in the late 80s but the bengals got to one Super Bowl. But the browns were very good for a five year stretch.
As a LIFE LONG Cowboys fan, I was always a BIG Kosar fan! I still am! I was GLAD when he came to Dallas and even MORE GLAD he won himself a ring, which he EARNED! He helped Dallas win in the playoffs! Not just a player who RODE THE BENCH into getting a ring! I was always a "STYLE" guy with athletes when it came to players, like Tony Dorsett, Dr. J, Michael Jordan, Deion Sanders, Barry Sanders, etc, but there was always something "DIFFERENT" about Kosar!
@@hd-xc2lz Yeah, I've always liked the old "UGLY DUCKLING" Kosar! Like I said, I'm glad he won a ring and with my Cowboys, but the truth is, he's from Ohio and a was a LIFE LONG Browns fan and he shoud've won with them - and stayed with them! Of course, things don't always work out like we want them to.
He did it with days of study. It was such a great game by Bernie. Everyone old Browns fan remembers that game. Man did we hate Bellichick and Modell back then.
All these people making a big fuss over Patrick Mahomes no look throws is mind boggling... Kosar was doing the same thing 30 some years ago.. He basically invented it without trying... Kosar was magnificent!
The Kosar Rule: If it gets there and your guy catches it, it's a good pass! I don't remember what year it was or who they were playing. I was never a Browns fan, but I used to watch whatever games were on. He threw the ball sidearm and it spun around like a frisbee . . but it still went 30-40 yards down the field and hit the receiver in stride. Been stuck in my memory ever since! The guy had an absolute cannon for an arm!
This man with unorthodox football talent and great collegiate success okey-doked himself into supplemental draft to join THE pro football team of his childhood dreams...is FOREVER is a Browns hero in my book.
Always take a negative and turn it into a positive. I love Kosar as a role model for young people. Loved the sidearm and the amazing brain he had. He and Boomer, along with Warren Moon, had great battles in the '80s.
Bernie is my all-time favorite NFL player. Nobody else comes close. He had great talent for the game of football, but even more than that he had tremendous courage and heart. He competed as hard as he could every Sunday and took a serious physical beating trying to win games for us. Bernie Kosar was a football player with gravel in his guts and ice water in his veins. A throwback to a bygone era. I was fortunate to see him and get an autograph at Browns training camp back in 1993. I took notice that he didn't regard himself as a star quarterback. He referred to himself simply as "number 19". Just one jersey number among many. He stayed out there long after practice was over and signed autographs for everybody who wanted one. I still have the jersey he signed for me that day. I hope he knows how much Cleveland fans love and appreciate him.
In 1998 or 1999 they had the NFL QB all pro competition in Orlando Florida and the players had an event at Planet Hollywood - I was in High school and we were there for a math competition and were so excited to get autographs from NFL QBs....Bernie Kosar was one of the only QBs who signed an autograph for each and every one of us (Jim Harbaugh did as well). I was born in Cleveland and I will never forget Bernie.
Still remember Bernie lead the browns back from 21 points down on Monday night football to take a late lead against the dolphins ......he did all this in the second half of the game on a broken foot ..
SABOL: "Cuyooga River" KOSAR: "Cuyooga?"(Laughs) "Cuyahoga" There is only one Bernie that people think of when they live in Cleveland. That man is the adopted son of every Cleveland native. He'll always be respected and admired by everyone who lived here during the 80's and early 90's because he lived here with us, he chose to return to play his pro football in Cleveland when he had other options, it took the most unlikely series of weird losses to keep us out of the Super Bowl while he was playing here and he chose to remain here after his playing career ended. 👏🏻
I'm a Steelers fan and not old enough to have seen Kosar play with Cleveland but my dad (also Steelers fan) loved Bernie and to this day is happy that Bernie got a Super Bowl ring as he was a big Bernie fan back in the day. Mass respect to him and hope he is doing well today.
Lovely tribute to Kosar, who will always be THE MAN in Brownstown. Such a gamer, always felt Browns had a chance with BK. So many huge plays. Possibly the most accurate deep ball thrower of his generation, which is saying a lot. Too many great moments to count, but for 5 memorable seasons, Bernie was the superstar QB on a true contender, taking Browns deep into the playoffs 3 times, always playing his best when it counted the most. Sabol’s football romanticism notwithstanding (and it did leave me with a lump in my throat - SS really is a poet of NFL lore) I think I he shortchanged Bernie a bit here. Bernie wasn’t an overachiever - he was a blue chip QB who was so precocious there was a bidding war for his services involving several NFL teams. Kosar was THE top QB prospect when he entered the NFL and in his second year rocketed to the very top of his profession. From 86 thru the 89 season, he was regarded as the best of the best - on par with Marino, Elway, Montana. Injuries, alas, brought his career to a premature end. But the legend will live on forever.
Im a 60 year browns fan. Those years when Bernie led my Browns were some of the most memorable and Difficult years any browns fan of my generation endured! He is a special man and a Talent above and beyond his ability! He accomplished things no Browns Quarterback of his unusual abilities ever has! Otto was special and had Special abilities. Dr Frank Ryan was brilliant and used his intelect to surpass the best of his contemporaries. But Bernie had something special and undescribable that made him successful! in a way no reporter, coach or fan could explain. He quite simply could not be described in a way that explained his success! He was untolerably slow on foot and threw the ball with a motion never used by any winning quarterback ever yet he won games he should not have won! He was, simply put, Different , special and Brilliantly intelligent and I will always love him for all he brought to my life in regard to the passion I felt at that very special time in Cleveland Browns Football! Thank you Bernie !
"if the nfl awarded 'style points', bernie kosar wouldnt have gotten any." HOWEVER, if the nfl awarded points for "heart", "brains", and "balls", bernie kosar would EASILY have TWICE as many as any quarterback that ever played!!
I kinda disagree on that style points crack, Bernie certainly had a style of his own. Nobody sidearmed as much as he did, and if you threw the ball sidearm to a friend it was assumed that you were throwing Bernie-style.
I love Bernie. I still have a Bernie fathead in my basement. But Otto Graham might disagree with that statement, if he was still alive. Otto went to ten straight championship games and won seven of them.
I still remember a sports Illustrated article going into Bernie draft class. “ Best deep thrower of the bunch”. Great mind! Ugly duckling who could become a swan”
Bernie had a great head for the game--sharp as a razor, and as a very young guy. I'll never forget watching him as a Freshman at Miami. He beat an awesome Nebraska team in one of the great college games, as a teenager. Super impressive. He always was.
I was about 8/9 when I became a STEELERS fan, but I definitely remember this guy because he had a cool name, he was a rival to us in that AFC North and last not least, that throw that he had was unforgettable... Man oh man the good ol 🏈 days #PS4L#
Really glad this interview covered the Jim Kelly Charity Tournament and Kosar winning the football-tire throw. In the original SI article, Bernie was described as looking like a mattress salesman compared to the other QBs. Author had said that only 2 or 3 QBs got the ball through the tire, and Bernie's throw whistled through rather than rattled. Hysterical. They said that Bernie wasn't aiming and there was no warm up, he just sauntered over and "brought it." I think that was only after 1 or 2 years in the league before he really started showing what he had.
As unorthodox as Kosar’s mechanics were and how unusual his throwing motion was, the ball got into the hands of his receivers and he got the job done. I’ll never forget that touchdown pass to Alvin Harper in the NFC Championship game when Kosar came off the bench for Troy Aikman to put away the 49ers.
Never enjoyed watching pro sports more than sitting in the Euclid Tavern on a Sunday Fall afternoon with a Rolling Rock and the Sunday lunch plate, watching the Bernie-led Browns. Games were projected on a screen as I recall, but not sure. Was always a small crowd, and at least half were the alcoholic regulars, forever ducking phone calls to the bar from wives.
Lovely interview and some great footage. Would be interesting to know which year that was filmed. Loved the old Municipal Stadium as well, which for me was the 'Field of Dreams'.
The old Municipal Stadium was a showpiece for Cleveland steel. Remember the size of the rivets on the girders?? A shame that the new stadium couldn't have reused/incorporated some of Municipal's steel detail.
This more than anything. I don't remember the specific game, perhaps the Colts / Browns Divisional play off, I recall Bernie looking left, releasing center right caught by I believe Langhorn. Later Bernie said that when they broke huddle on the play, he saw the base defensive alignment and signaled Langhorn that he was now WR1 on the play despite what was called in the huddle. That was either a TD or a completion to the 1 or 2. Browns scored on the series. All because BK was so well prepared and smart. I really miss that type of QB.
The problem is that Bill was reading the defense as a DC. He's thinking more about what they should be doing, not what they are doing. The 2 safeties might have been playing things differently or just to a T every time which was something Bernie noticed but Bill didn't see. Minds with different mindsets see things differently. Bill should have took this moment to bring Bernie in and discuss how to improve his offensive side considering Bill came from the defense side of things instead of going on some power struggle. Fun fact: Bill has ties to the same area in Ohio that Bernie came from. Bill's dad was in the HOF in my old HS in Ohio.
Pats fan, I started watching in about 1983 and there were so many great QBs out there - Joe Montana and Dan Marino are the obvious ones, Fouts was still pretty special back then, Elway, Jim Kelly (although he didn't play until later, he was drafted around this era), Warren Moon, later in the 80s there was another bunch of great QBs too. As far as I'm concerned, Bernie Kosar was every bit as good as all of those others, despite looking like all his limbs were about to crash into each other :) He's right though, it doesn't matter how it looks if it's effective, late career Peyton Manning also showed that But back on the original point, Kosar is a legend, the Browns were great to watch at that time, and ultimately were very unlucky to never get to the big game
Fun fact Bernie's stance was like that because the right guard at the time had a bad habit of stepping on Bernie's foot That's why his stance was like that
@@chrish4977still #1 with QBs that throw side-armed. But this video shows where Bernie's success came from. It was his brains. I used to listen to preseason games with him talking. He'll call what the defense was doing accurately.
Yep Bernie Kosar is the best quarterback cleavland Browns team had and since 1993 after Bernie Kosar the team has never played good games again yes the got to the playoffs a few times but not very far and never went to a successful super bowl game 😅
I could listen to Bernie and Steve talk for hours. Why isn't Bernie coaching in Cleveland? And BTW Bill Belichick is probably the greatest coach ever but cutting Bernie has to be the dumbest move of his career.
this is even more proof Bill is an overrated coach that was carried by the coattails of Brady. Cutting your qb while you’re in first place midway through the season? wild
Are there any universally accepted great coaches that had little to no success from their coaching tree like Bill has? Time and time again, coaches from his tree fail as HC. Have there been any with success at HC?
@@AquariumThoughts Andy Reid is definitely a better coach if you look at his coaching tree. What he’s done with Mahomes shows that if he had a Brady-esque qb and not a mcnabb/vick (who were good as eagles but not enough to win sb’s) he could have as many championships as Bill right now. If those 2000s-2010s eagles teams had brady. Reid would still be coaching the eagles until brady retired with 5-7 rings himself.
They could make fun of the city and where the Browns played, but teams feared playing in Cleveland. It was one of the hardest places for a visiting team to win. Nobody cared what the stadium looked like because real football was played there. That is the problem with teams today. These stadiums are built not to last, but to say, look at me, look at me. Mean while, their teams suck. These players can't play unless they have a bottle warmed up. Football players prior to the mid 90s were real players. These guys today have no sense of team and it is all about who can score the highest contract. And to think there are idiots who play hundreds of dollars to cheer someone who does not care about them and has no idea they exist. I stopped watching the Browns when they left and it has been better not cheering for these fake players today.
I'm 67 years old now. Old as dirt. My favorite quarterback will always be Bernie. He WANTED to play for the BROWNS. Let that one sink in... I grew up a Lions fan but moved to Toledo in '78. Went from frying pan into the fire, falling in love with Cleveland and the Browns Thanks Cardiac Kids... So many heartaches. But the magical moments Bernie gave us will never be topped. He was one of a kind. Could pick apart a defense like a computer. And that praying mantis drop back and laser accuracy. Bernie was somethin else. God Bless him.
Isn’t Toledo pretty much Lions territory?
@@boogitybear2283 I moved to Toledo in 78. Previously another Lions fan, suffering per usual. Worked bartending and Lions games were normally blacked out because of playing in that cavern in Pontiac. Brian Sipe and the Kardiac Kids and I was suckered in. Then it was Bernie Kosar (moment of reverence...) and the Dawgs of Defense. Had my heart broken every way manageable and still here I am... Lions are my 1a though. Love that they got DPJ, kids still got juice.
Most people outside of Cleveland don't understand how close to a true dynasty those Browns teams were. In both '86 and '87 they were one play away from the Super Bowl, in '88 Browns were favored to win the AFC but he got hurt and they still made the playoffs, in '89 they were one quarter away from the Super Bowl.
Im a niners fan since '97 and from the Bay Area and we knew the browns were the best afc team in the late 80s. they deserved to represent the afc those years in the sb..
I remember the 1980s....pain but so close to glory...
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86 team was awesome. As a Giants fan, I wanted Browns in SB21 not Denver
I feel like they were as good as Cincinnati was in the late 80s but the bengals got to one Super Bowl. But the browns were very good for a five year stretch.
I’ve waited on Bernie a few times in Cleveland. He’s a wonderfully polite man.
As a hardcore Bengals fan of the 80s, we hated the Browns but respected Bernie.
Cleveland will always love you Bernie
My childhood HERO!!!!! Love ya Bernie
So underated but not forgotten. Bernie was great and had Heart
Just like Josh Allen
A true Blue Collar QB. Not elegant nor graceful, just hard-iron grit and determination to win. I miss these type of QBS.
As a LIFE LONG Cowboys fan, I was always a BIG Kosar fan!
I still am!
I was GLAD when he came to Dallas and even MORE GLAD he won himself a ring, which he EARNED!
He helped Dallas win in the playoffs!
Not just a player who RODE THE BENCH into getting a ring!
I was always a "STYLE" guy with athletes when it came to players, like Tony Dorsett, Dr. J, Michael Jordan, Deion Sanders, Barry Sanders, etc, but there was always something "DIFFERENT" about Kosar!
I always forget that he won a ring with Dallas. Mostly just makes me sad, it's what should have happened in Cleveland.
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Yeah, I've always liked the old "UGLY DUCKLING" Kosar!
Like I said, I'm glad he won a ring and with my Cowboys, but the truth is, he's from Ohio and a was a LIFE LONG Browns fan and he shoud've won with them - and stayed with them!
Of course, things don't always work out like we want them to.
It would have been cool if he started in Super Bowl 28 instead of Aikman.
He did it with days of study. It was such a great game by Bernie. Everyone old Browns fan remembers that game. Man did we hate Bellichick and Modell back then.
All these people making a big fuss over Patrick Mahomes no look throws is mind boggling... Kosar was doing the same thing 30 some years ago.. He basically invented it without trying... Kosar was magnificent!
The Kosar Rule: If it gets there and your guy catches it, it's a good pass! I don't remember what year it was or who they were playing. I was never a Browns fan, but I used to watch whatever games were on. He threw the ball sidearm and it spun around like a frisbee . . but it still went 30-40 yards down the field and hit the receiver in stride. Been stuck in my memory ever since! The guy had an absolute cannon for an arm!
This man with unorthodox football talent and great collegiate success okey-doked himself into supplemental draft to join THE pro football team of his childhood dreams...is FOREVER is a Browns hero in my book.
Legend
43 year Browns fan and Bernie Kosar is my all-time favorite!
Always take a negative and turn it into a positive. I love Kosar as a role model for young people. Loved the sidearm and the amazing brain he had. He and Boomer, along with Warren Moon, had great battles in the '80s.
Bernie is my all-time favorite NFL player. Nobody else comes close. He had great talent for the game of football, but even more than that he had tremendous courage and heart. He competed as hard as he could every Sunday and took a serious physical beating trying to win games for us. Bernie Kosar was a football player with gravel in his guts and ice water in his veins. A throwback to a bygone era.
I was fortunate to see him and get an autograph at Browns training camp back in 1993. I took notice that he didn't regard himself as a star quarterback. He referred to himself simply as "number 19". Just one jersey number among many. He stayed out there long after practice was over and signed autographs for everybody who wanted one. I still have the jersey he signed for me that day. I hope he knows how much Cleveland fans love and appreciate him.
That will make a grown man cry.
Thanks for the memories Bernie.
In 1998 or 1999 they had the NFL QB all pro competition in Orlando Florida and the players had an event at Planet Hollywood - I was in High school and we were there for a math competition and were so excited to get autographs from NFL QBs....Bernie Kosar was one of the only QBs who signed an autograph for each and every one of us (Jim Harbaugh did as well). I was born in Cleveland and I will never forget Bernie.
The best QB I've ever seen!! There was no touch the QB and he's down... QB's got crushed!!! He use to surgically place that ball!
Still remember Bernie lead the browns back from 21 points down on Monday night football to take a late lead against the dolphins ......he did all this in the second half of the game on a broken foot ..
I remember that game as a kid. I remember some fans had a sign that said "Squish the Fish". Lol
I met Bernie on a trip to Cleveland. He was such a gracious and humble guy.
SABOL: "Cuyooga River"
KOSAR: "Cuyooga?"(Laughs) "Cuyahoga"
There is only one Bernie that people think of when they live in Cleveland. That man is the adopted son of every Cleveland native. He'll always be respected and admired by everyone who lived here during the 80's and early 90's because he lived here with us, he chose to return to play his pro football in Cleveland when he had other options, it took the most unlikely series of weird losses to keep us out of the Super Bowl while he was playing here and he chose to remain here after his playing career ended. 👏🏻
At the time Kosar played I was a football player and a Houston Oulers fan. Kosat ripped my heart out more times than I care to remember.
It's odd that you can notice how tall he is in these videos. But i never notice the height of qbs the same height he is in the NFL today.
I'm a dolphins fan who couldn't stand the hurricanes,but I pulled for the browns just because of Bernie kosar.one of the best
My favorite player as a kid brown's for life
I'm a Steelers fan and not old enough to have seen Kosar play with Cleveland but my dad (also Steelers fan) loved Bernie and to this day is happy that Bernie got a Super Bowl ring as he was a big Bernie fan back in the day. Mass respect to him and hope he is doing well today.
Lovely tribute to Kosar, who will always be THE MAN in Brownstown. Such a gamer, always felt Browns had a chance with BK. So many huge plays. Possibly the most accurate deep ball thrower of his generation, which is saying a lot.
Too many great moments to count, but for 5 memorable seasons, Bernie was the superstar QB on a true contender, taking Browns deep into the playoffs 3 times, always playing his best when it counted the most.
Sabol’s football romanticism notwithstanding (and it did leave me with a lump in my throat - SS really is a poet of NFL lore) I think I he shortchanged Bernie a bit here. Bernie wasn’t an overachiever - he was a blue chip QB who was so precocious there was a bidding war for his services involving several NFL teams. Kosar was THE top QB prospect when he entered the NFL and in his second year rocketed to the very top of his profession. From 86 thru the 89 season, he was regarded as the best of the best - on par with Marino, Elway, Montana. Injuries, alas, brought his career to a premature end.
But the legend will live on forever.
Im a 60 year browns fan. Those years when Bernie led my Browns were some of the most memorable and Difficult years any browns fan of my generation endured! He is a special man and a Talent above and beyond his ability! He accomplished things no Browns Quarterback of his unusual abilities ever has! Otto was special and had Special abilities. Dr Frank Ryan was brilliant and used his intelect to surpass the best of his contemporaries. But Bernie had something special and undescribable that made him successful! in a way no reporter, coach or fan could explain. He quite simply could not be described in a way that explained his success! He was untolerably slow on foot and threw the ball with a motion never used by any winning quarterback ever yet he won games he should not have won!
He was, simply put, Different , special and Brilliantly intelligent and I will always love him for all he brought to my life in regard to the passion I felt at that very special time in Cleveland Browns Football! Thank you Bernie !
So glad Bernie got to win a superbowl!
I have respect for Bernie! Just remember, Coach Belichick got his head coaching start here.
"if the nfl awarded 'style points', bernie kosar wouldnt have gotten any."
HOWEVER, if the nfl awarded points for "heart", "brains", and "balls", bernie kosar would EASILY have TWICE as many as any quarterback that ever played!!
hell yeah!
I kinda disagree on that style points crack, Bernie certainly had a style of his own. Nobody sidearmed as much as he did, and if you threw the ball sidearm to a friend it was assumed that you were throwing Bernie-style.
@@hd-xc2lz and now Mahomes thrives on it
The Greatest QB in Cleveland Browns history!!
I love Bernie. I still have a Bernie fathead in my basement. But Otto Graham might disagree with that statement, if he was still alive. Otto went to ten straight championship games and won seven of them.
I think baker is coming up on this list
@@purge_assassin4527 this post didn't age well 😂
Browns fan here. You rocked Bernie and thank you for all the enjoyment you brought during the seasons. 👍💯👏👏
I still remember a sports Illustrated article going into Bernie draft class. “ Best deep thrower of the bunch”. Great mind! Ugly duckling who could become a swan”
Bernie had a great head for the game--sharp as a razor, and as a very young guy. I'll never forget watching him as a Freshman at Miami. He beat an awesome Nebraska team in one of the great college games, as a teenager. Super impressive. He always was.
I was about 8/9 when I became a STEELERS fan, but I definitely remember this guy because he had a cool name, he was a rival to us in that AFC North and last not least, that throw that he had was unforgettable... Man oh man the good ol 🏈 days #PS4L#
Really glad this interview covered the Jim Kelly Charity Tournament and Kosar winning the football-tire throw. In the original SI article, Bernie was described as looking like a mattress salesman compared to the other QBs. Author had said that only 2 or 3 QBs got the ball through the tire, and Bernie's throw whistled through rather than rattled. Hysterical. They said that Bernie wasn't aiming and there was no warm up, he just sauntered over and "brought it." I think that was only after 1 or 2 years in the league before he really started showing what he had.
As unorthodox as Kosar’s mechanics were and how unusual his throwing motion was, the ball got into the hands of his receivers and he got the job done. I’ll never forget that touchdown pass to Alvin Harper in the NFC Championship game when Kosar came off the bench for Troy Aikman to put away the 49ers.
Bernie you were great to watch and are a great quarterback god bless
I love every bit of this as a die hard Cleveland Browns Fan.
This is a great man.
Such acccuracy
I loved this!! Thanks for sharing!!
Bernie is the best
Never enjoyed watching pro sports more than sitting in the Euclid Tavern on a Sunday Fall afternoon with a Rolling Rock and the Sunday lunch plate, watching the Bernie-led Browns. Games were projected on a screen as I recall, but not sure. Was always a small crowd, and at least half were the alcoholic regulars, forever ducking phone calls to the bar from wives.
This man 100% deserves to be in the HOF. It’s stupid that he isn’t in it
BERNIE KOSAR was the 2nd best quarterback the Browns had behind Otto Graham
These sidearms are actually really aesthetic pleasing but yeah his running though haha
Legend
Doesn't matter what it looks like, as long as it goes where it's supposed to!
Lovely interview and some great footage. Would be interesting to know which year that was filmed. Loved the old Municipal Stadium as well, which for me was the 'Field of Dreams'.
The old Municipal Stadium was a showpiece for Cleveland steel. Remember the size of the rivets on the girders?? A shame that the new stadium couldn't have reused/incorporated some of Municipal's steel detail.
This man had a genius mind for the game.....Bill should of given him the go ahead....he could read a defense better than you anyways Bill!
This more than anything. I don't remember the specific game, perhaps the Colts / Browns Divisional play off, I recall Bernie looking left, releasing center right caught by I believe Langhorn. Later Bernie said that when they broke huddle on the play, he saw the base defensive alignment and signaled Langhorn that he was now WR1 on the play despite what was called in the huddle. That was either a TD or a completion to the 1 or 2. Browns scored on the series. All because BK was so well prepared and smart. I really miss that type of QB.
The problem is that Bill was reading the defense as a DC. He's thinking more about what they should be doing, not what they are doing. The 2 safeties might have been playing things differently or just to a T every time which was something Bernie noticed but Bill didn't see. Minds with different mindsets see things differently. Bill should have took this moment to bring Bernie in and discuss how to improve his offensive side considering Bill came from the defense side of things instead of going on some power struggle. Fun fact: Bill has ties to the same area in Ohio that Bernie came from. Bill's dad was in the HOF in my old HS in Ohio.
The pure definition of the ends justify the means, if it was a person
Imagine if the 90s Lions picked up Kosar, Sanders, Green Moore, Peryman, the what ifs kill
Cleveland icon
I was 9 yrs old found out Bernie was cut cried for 3 days 😞
He had his fun in college and then went to work in the pros.
Pats fan, I started watching in about 1983 and there were so many great QBs out there - Joe Montana and Dan Marino are the obvious ones, Fouts was still pretty special back then, Elway, Jim Kelly (although he didn't play until later, he was drafted around this era), Warren Moon, later in the 80s there was another bunch of great QBs too.
As far as I'm concerned, Bernie Kosar was every bit as good as all of those others, despite looking like all his limbs were about to crash into each other :) He's right though, it doesn't matter how it looks if it's effective, late career Peyton Manning also showed that
But back on the original point, Kosar is a legend, the Browns were great to watch at that time, and ultimately were very unlucky to never get to the big game
Goooooooooooooooooood
let's fucking go
NO BERNIE NO BERNIE......GREAT THROW BERNIE🤣
RIP Marty🤲
The throws weren't pretty but the wins were.
Home Town Hero Youngstown Ohio
Bernie 4Ever!!! Bernie threw from every angle before Mahomes made it cool
You are the best QB in Cleveland Browns
Cleveland 🐐
He won 4 straight games in Pittsburgh. Nuff said
He looks like The Mandalorian haha haha
Fun fact Bernie's stance was like that because the right guard at the time had a bad habit of stepping on Bernie's foot That's why his stance was like that
Say what you want about him, but I think he still owns the record for most passes without an interception.
He is in 3rd behind Rogers and Brady.
@@chrish4977still #1 with QBs that throw side-armed. But this video shows where Bernie's success came from. It was his brains. I used to listen to preseason games with him talking. He'll call what the defense was doing accurately.
Yep Bernie Kosar is the best quarterback cleavland Browns team had and since 1993 after Bernie Kosar the team has never played good games again yes the got to the playoffs a few times but not very far and never went to a successful super bowl game 😅
Goddamn do I miss Bernie
Go Browns
I could listen to Bernie and Steve talk for hours. Why isn't Bernie coaching in Cleveland? And BTW Bill Belichick is probably the greatest coach ever but cutting Bernie has to be the dumbest move of his career.
We all make mistakes when young.
Who cares what he looked he got the job done
Does Bernie not have A Football Life?
Ooooohhh that would be a good 1
Bill Belicheat learned a lot from Bernie! He was just young and dum as a new coach at that time
Maybe Bill did learn from that and possibly isn't something that rubbed off on his coaching tree.
Steve better watch it with that 'craphole' talk. Some of my fondest memories as a kid were at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
hearing Nev Chandler making the call brought me back to those glory days---someone once described Kosar as a giraffe on Quaaludes ---we loved Bernard
Bill was really stupid!
Belichik may go to the hall of fame but he better not stop in Cleveland on the way. He isn't welcome.
Art left to grab a quick SB
With a better owner, that Patriots Dynasty could've been a Cleveland Dynasty. Rot in hell Rat Modell.
@@randomupdates4013Yep, and Ozzie got a ring with him.
this is even more proof Bill is an overrated coach that was carried by the coattails of Brady. Cutting your qb while you’re in first place midway through the season? wild
Are there any universally accepted great coaches that had little to no success from their coaching tree like Bill has? Time and time again, coaches from his tree fail as HC. Have there been any with success at HC?
@@AquariumThoughts Andy Reid is definitely a better coach if you look at his coaching tree. What he’s done with Mahomes shows that if he had a Brady-esque qb and not a mcnabb/vick (who were good as eagles but not enough to win sb’s) he could have as many championships as Bill right now. If those 2000s-2010s eagles teams had brady. Reid would still be coaching the eagles until brady retired with 5-7 rings himself.
This is great.
But they need space.
They do, but Bernie is also 6'6" lol I think they setup the studio without realizing how long his legs were.
We all can say Bernie wasn't the reason or the issue
No way he shouldn't be an OC or offensive assistant.
Proof thepositiomis playedinyour head
Kosar was never a bad qb. He just played for the original Browns.
Very Underrated.
They could make fun of the city and where the Browns played, but teams feared playing in Cleveland. It was one of the hardest places for a visiting team to win. Nobody cared what the stadium looked like because real football was played there. That is the problem with teams today. These stadiums are built not to last, but to say, look at me, look at me. Mean while, their teams suck. These players can't play unless they have a bottle warmed up. Football players prior to the mid 90s were real players. These guys today have no sense of team and it is all about who can score the highest contract. And to think there are idiots who play hundreds of dollars to cheer someone who does not care about them and has no idea they exist. I stopped watching the Browns when they left and it has been better not cheering for these fake players today.