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@@Fadem12forReal So by this logic, every RU-vidr 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.
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*
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
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 🤦
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.
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.
@@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
“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.
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
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. 😂😂😂
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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 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 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 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
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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
"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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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
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
I’ve done a lot of away game traveling for my Jersey/tri state area teams. But one place I’ve never so much as worn my jerseys to is Philly for football hockey or basketball. Those people are fucking crazy. One of only two, now one, stadiums in the country with a built in jail, and judge on standby when games go on. I’d be running for the car and then hauling ass with my nonexistent nuclear holocaust go bag if this happened in Philly. My god
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.
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🤷♂️
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".
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 🤦♂️
No way they were launching those at the refs who didn’t even have equipment on unlike the players who could use their helmet . Gtfoh wit that lame shit
