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  • B blowe

    Hey guys, it could be worse.  I jumped up to celebrate us tying the game and I broke my foot.

    @blowe said:

    Hey guys, it could be worse.  I jumped up to celebrate us tying the game and I broke my foot.

    You still probably could kick a FG better than Gonzalez. 

    The GipperT B 2 Replies
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  • Dutch OvenD Dutch Oven

    @blowe said:

    Hey guys, it could be worse.  I jumped up to celebrate us tying the game and I broke my foot.

    You still probably could kick a FG better than Gonzalez. 

    @dutch-oven said:

    You still probably could kick a FG better than Gonzalez. 

    With a broken foot?

    😂
  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @dutch-oven said:

    You still probably could kick a FG better than Gonzalez. 

    With a broken foot?

    @the-gipper said:

    With a broken foot?

    Yes, Gip. 

    With a broken foot. 

    😂

  • Blow me

  • nickersN nickers

    @lbc-mike said:

    O line should have been priority this off season 

    They did draft Austn Corbett.. What did you expect?

    @nickers said:

    They did draft Austn Corbett.. What did you expect?

    Better.  

  • jiggins7919J jiggins7919

    I'm more angry at this tie than anything last year. Just once...just ONCE you magnificent shitbags....find a way to win an effing game. JUST ONE TIME YOU PATHETIC LOSERS. 

    @jiggins7919 said:

    I'm more angry at this tie than anything last year. Just once...just ONCE you magnificent shitbags....find a way to win an effing game. JUST ONE TIME YOU PATHETIC LOSERS. 

    Yessir. Emotion l jive with. However, silver lining, what a weird àss way to start the season right? A tie? Who even does that anymore?

    I gotta admit. I am unreasonably fired up. A tie on opening day? That is such a Browns thing to do, but also a Browns thing in the right direction. 

    That’s my team. Fúcking up standings from get go in the AFC.

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  • There has not been a tie on the first game of the season since like the merger in 1970 or so

  • The GipperT The Gipper

    There has not been a tie on the first game of the season since like the merger in 1970 or so

    @the-gipper said:

    There has not been a tie on the first game of the season since like the merger in 1970 or so

    Has there ever been one? Even before that?

  • tiamat63T tiamat63

    Morning, kids.   God bless anybody who went to the Muni, Burke, etc etc to tailgate.   Too cold and rainy for me at this point.  I'm not 18 anymore.   

    @tiamat63 said:

    Morning, kids.   God bless anybody who went to the Muni, Burke, etc etc to tailgate.   Too cold and rainy for me at this point.  I'm not 18 anymore.   

    Ah the weather wasn't that bad, nothing to light drizzle, light rain. Rain got a lot heavier in the 4th quarter and OT. The real deluge came on the drive back home after 8 o'clock. 

    @texasag1969 said:

    Unfortunately I was thinking during most of the game that the rookie Baker could have read the defenses far better than TT was doing. It showed in preseason. But that said I don't want him out there until this team can decently pass block, which they can't.

    Taylor was slow in his reads- and I'll agree- he had plenty of off target throws. 

    @ibleedbrown said:

    Has there ever been one? Even before that?

    Think they said you have to go back to 1971 for a tie on opening day. It's the first time the Browns and Steelers have ever tied- in a zillion games. BTW, the last time the Browns had a tie was in 1989 against the Chiefs. 

    Some of you guys are disappointed- but I'll take it as a moral victory. I had a loudmouth Steeler fan sitting next to me I was about ready to punch out. 

  • sydS syd

    so on to next week are the saints D really that bad ? to let tampa put up 48 0n them

    @syd said:

    so on to next week are the saints D really that bad ? to let tampa put up 48 0n them

    Fitz was channeling his inner Brees.

  • Dutch OvenD Dutch Oven

    @blowe said:

    Hey guys, it could be worse.  I jumped up to celebrate us tying the game and I broke my foot.

    You still probably could kick a FG better than Gonzalez. 

    @dutch-oven said:

    You still probably could kick a FG better than Gonzalez. 

    That's exactly what I was yelling at the TV.  I at least watched the rest of the game before getting x Rays.

    "The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things " - mike huckabee
  • B blowe

    Hey guys, it could be worse.  I jumped up to celebrate us tying the game and I broke my foot.

    @blowe said:

    Hey guys, it could be worse.  I jumped up to celebrate us tying the game and I broke my foot.

    There comes an age when you have to carefully consider jumping...

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  • Think they said you have to go back to 1971 for a tie on opening day.

    I believe that is correct.  And FYI, that was before they even instituted overtime in the NFL, which did not come in until the 1974 season.

    And face it, with the reduction of the OT period from  15 minutes to 10 minutes,   we ARE going to get a few more  ties.

    Which could make things interesting at the end of the season when determining playoff spots, and seeds. 

    Example:    1989:

    Browns win division with 9-6-1 record

    Steelers AND Oilers finish with 9-7 records,   Bengals go 8-8.

    Steelers and Oilers had to meet each other in the Wildcard game.  (Steelers  won that game...IN OT!!

    hoortaH 1 Reply
  • Tour2maT Tour2ma

    @blowe said:

    Hey guys, it could be worse.  I jumped up to celebrate us tying the game and I broke my foot.

    There comes an age when you have to carefully consider jumping...

    @tour2ma said:

    There comes an age when you have to carefully consider jumping...

    I guess 31 was that age haha.  I'd like to think it was just an awkward landing.  I'm not old, yet.

    "The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things " - mike huckabee
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  • B blowe

    @tour2ma said:

    There comes an age when you have to carefully consider jumping...

    I guess 31 was that age haha.  I'd like to think it was just an awkward landing.  I'm not old, yet.

    @blowe said:

    I guess 31 was that age haha.  I'd like to think it was just an awkward landing.  I'm not old, yet.

    You're damn near a goner.?

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  • The GipperT The Gipper

    Think they said you have to go back to 1971 for a tie on opening day.

    I believe that is correct.  And FYI, that was before they even instituted overtime in the NFL, which did not come in until the 1974 season.

    And face it, with the reduction of the OT period from  15 minutes to 10 minutes,   we ARE going to get a few more  ties.

    Which could make things interesting at the end of the season when determining playoff spots, and seeds. 

    Example:    1989:

    Browns win division with 9-6-1 record

    Steelers AND Oilers finish with 9-7 records,   Bengals go 8-8.

    Steelers and Oilers had to meet each other in the Wildcard game.  (Steelers  won that game...IN OT!!

    @the-gipper said:

    Think they said you have to go back to 1971 for a tie on opening day.

    I believe that is correct.  And FYI, that was before they even instituted overtime in the NFL, which did not come in until the 1974 season.

    And face it, with the reduction of the OT period from  15 minutes to 10 minutes,   we ARE going to get a few more  ties.

    Which could make things interesting at the end of the season when determining playoff spots, and seeds. 

    Example:    1989:

    Browns win division with 9-6-1 record

    Steelers AND Oilers finish with 9-7 records,   Bengals go 8-8.

    Steelers and Oilers had to meet each other in the Wildcard game.  (Steelers  won that game...IN OT!!

    I'll let the trivia exert look this one up if he feels like it. Has a team had more than one tie in a season? 

  • hoortaH hoorta

    @the-gipper said:

    Think they said you have to go back to 1971 for a tie on opening day.

    I believe that is correct.  And FYI, that was before they even instituted overtime in the NFL, which did not come in until the 1974 season.

    And face it, with the reduction of the OT period from  15 minutes to 10 minutes,   we ARE going to get a few more  ties.

    Which could make things interesting at the end of the season when determining playoff spots, and seeds. 

    Example:    1989:

    Browns win division with 9-6-1 record

    Steelers AND Oilers finish with 9-7 records,   Bengals go 8-8.

    Steelers and Oilers had to meet each other in the Wildcard game.  (Steelers  won that game...IN OT!!

    I'll let the trivia exert look this one up if he feels like it. Has a team had more than one tie in a season? 

    @hoorta said:

    I'll let the trivia exert look this one up if he feels like it. Has a team had more than one tie in a season? 

    I assume you mean, since they implemented the OT rule for regular season in 1974?  Before that it was a regular situation.

  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @hoorta said:

    I'll let the trivia exert look this one up if he feels like it. Has a team had more than one tie in a season? 

    I assume you mean, since they implemented the OT rule for regular season in 1974?  Before that it was a regular situation.

    @the-gipper said:

    I assume you mean, since they implemented the OT rule for regular season in 1974?  Before that it was a regular situation.

    Either- most ties in a season, one team since 1920.  🙂  

  • hoortaH hoorta

    @the-gipper said:

    I assume you mean, since they implemented the OT rule for regular season in 1974?  Before that it was a regular situation.

    Either- most ties in a season, one team since 1920.  🙂  

    @hoorta said:

    Either- most ties in a season, one team since 1920.  🙂  

    Well.....since the  the OT rules came into play, the answer is that  NO teams have had 2 ties in the same season Here is a list of all the tie games since then:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_tied_games

    Note, many years there were no ties.  In fact, the league went from 1989  to 1997 without having a tie game. Then there were 2 in 1997,  but not another one for another 5 years in 2002.

    There were no tie last season, 2017.

    But, as I said, with the shortened OT, I think we will be getting a few more, here and there.

  • So, just FYI  Here are a few facts about tie games:

    The Akron Pros  won the very first NFL title with an 8-0-3 record.

    A number of teams in the early years, the 1920s would have 3 ties on their record.

    The team that had the most tie games in a season were:

    The 1932 Chicago Bears, whose record was    7-1-6    They were awarded the NFL Championship based on this record!!  The Packers who went 10-3-1 were given 2d place!)

    The next most number of tie games were the 1925 Frankford Yellow Jackets who finished  9-4-5.    (Packers won with 12-0-1 record)

    Three other teams in history finished with 4 ties:  1924 Bears  6-1-4  (cleveland Bulldogs given title at 7-1-1); 1925 Orange Tornados and the 1932 Portsmouth Spartans.

    Now....the LAST time an NFL team had 2 ties on its record was 1973, the year before the rule change. And actually 4 teams, including the Browns had two ties on their record.  Perhaps those 4 teams with 2 ties prompted the rule change to go to regular season OT.

    The LAST team to have 3 ties:    1970 San Diego Chargers

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