Steelers Top 5 moments in rivalry:

1. 11/28/1956 Steelers gain first win in Cleveland in rivalry, winning 24-16 at Cleveland Muni.

2. 10/10/1964 One of the Browns "Saturday Night Special" games. John Henry Johnson rushes for 200 yards and 3 TDs compared to only 59 yards for Jim Brown in a 23-7 Steeler win. (of course, Browns have last laugh, winning the NFL title that year.

3. 10/5/1975. The "Kick en While Their Down" game. Near the end of the game Mean Joe Greene repeatedly kicks Browns OL Bob McKay in the groin while he is lying on the ground in a Steeler 42-6 win.

4. 9/29/1978. The OT "Flea Flicker" win where the bad call on the Steelers fumble went against the Browns.

5. 12/29/02. Steelers come back from 17 point third quarter deficit to win 36-33 in playoff game.

Browns Top 5 moments in rivalry:

## .10/10/1976 Joe Turkey Jones get retribution for Joe Greene's dirty play a year earlier by pile driving Terry Bradshaw into the ground in a Browns victory. This derails Steeler bid for a repeat title.

1. 10/26/1980 Brian Sipe leads the Browns back from a 26-14 4th quarter deficit to win 27-26 to memorialize the "Kardiac Kids" s Season.

2. 11/23/1986 Bernie Kosar passes for more yards (414), Browns have more total yards (536) and more first downs (35) than any team in history has ever gained vs. the Steelers in their history (even up to this point)

3. 9/10/1989 Browns hand the Steelers their worst defeat in history, 51-0.

4. 10/24/1993 Eric Metcalf game. Metcalf returns 2 punts for TD, including one in the final 3 minutes of the game to win for the Browns.

5. 11/4/1999 One of only two Browns victories in their "return season" from inactive status was a 16-15 win at Three Rivers Stadium on last second FG, in retribution for earlier humiliating defeat in their first "return" game.

Mutual highlights, sort of:

10/3/1970 Last of the "Saturday Night Extravaganzas" between Browns and Steelers. It was a somewhat lackluster win for the Browns, because by all reports there was more action in the stands with fights between fans than there was action on the field.

11/13/1995 First Browns game after Modell's "move" announcement, held ironically at Three Rivers. Steeler fans wear orange arm bands in tribute to the rivalry.

## Note, this was not really a special "Browns moment" but is certainly a renowned moment in the rivalry. Steeler fans often point this out as a low point, and a dirty deed by JTJ, but forget that the atmosphere in which this action was taken. As mentioned, a year earlier Joe Greene had kicked Bob McKay while down, and recall that Jack Lambert had a series of late and out of bounds hits on Brian Sipe. Thus the JTJ "pile drive" was seen by Browns players as merely being fair comeuppance at the time. Now, looking back after decades, we see that Bradshaw was fortunate not to have suffered serious injury.

Zombo said:

It wasn't all that glamorous. It was way more gay than that as you posted all teary-eyed about it even days later.

It was Earl freaking little, you dumb ass. It ain't like Greg Pruitt jumped into your awaiting soft arms after scoring the game winner on a 68-yard run.

FREAKofSTEEL08 said:

I am being serious here, are you semi-mentally Retarded? It's a wonder you can find the keys.

FREAKofSTEEL08 said:

Well, I don't know about the refs "favoring" a particular team, but that call on that fumble was a BAD call....unexplicably bad. But at least I have to agree that that series of events, the bad call, the flea flicker, should be included in the top 5 'moments'. As should the playoff game in which the Browns blew the big lead. Unsaid on the video was the Butch Davis decided to go into the prevent defense in the middle of the third quarter of that game....which prevented the Browns from winning (and Dennis Northcutt's dropped pass which would have sealed a Browns victory began a trend of Browns dropping passes apparently).

But, no, the 43-0 Browns loss to the Steelers has no more place on this list than does the 51-0 Browns victory.

From a Browns perspective, yes, the Metcalf 2 TD return game, or the Kosar to Slaughter OT pass to win would be better choices for this list. Perhaps from the Steeler fan perspective there may be a couple of other better choices. I can think of a game in the 60s in which John Henry Johnson outplayed Jim Brown for one night that would have been better from their viewpoint.

Grinder said:

LOL Your a Dumbass. You like sounding like a Whiny puss ?? Greeny had a Great take on Referees today. How In the Bulls / Knicks Rivalry (Jorday Heyday ) . Greeny covered the Bulls , was a Knicks fan. said BOTH sides said the Other side was Favored by the Refs. And Both sides Totally believed that ! Its all perspective. Truth be told there a re a Lot of Horrible officials in ALL Sports. and No way would Everyone ever be Happy with them anyway. Its life. So stop slobbering all over yourself. Weiner...

While I agree with number one (unfortunately) through 3, 4 and 5 are questionable at best.

I mean a blowout of an expansion team? Top five? No way.