The Bills looked pretty damn good this year. 10-6 and a playoff berth. Would've been 11-5 if they didnt sit all their starters in Week 17. They'll be back next year. One of the youngest teams in the league with a very good head coach in Sean McDermott and the GM Brandon Beane is very good at drafting. For the first time in many years the Buffalo Bills are relevant again
1989 Bill's underachieved. They were the best team in the afc. Special teams in 88 was the best ever. 89 it let them down at times and this game was a good example. Forget Harmon the STs lost the game
I'm a Bills fan from Buffalo, and I remember watching this game, while waiting to board a plane to El Paso, in Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland.
The all-whites were much better. They, along with the orange helmets, "popped" against the gray Cleveland sky. Remember hearing someone from the '64 championship team saying the Browns looked so much bigger in white than the Colts did in Blue. EVERY Brown's championships were won in white jerseys.
Watched this game in Pittsburgh with a bunch of Buffalo fans. The Steeler fans (sore over a RARE losing season) wanted to fight all of us, lol. The Bills fans were SO nice and gracious after the game with us Browns fans! They went on to four Super Bowl appearances starting the next season. Still my second favorite NFL team.
I can still recall the tension watching this game, even after nearly thirty years...truly, old school stuff...if you never went to a game at the REAL Cleveland Stadium you missed out on the noise, the excitement, all of it...Bernie--Metcalf--Mack--Slaughter--Brennan...MY BROWNS!!!...
All that cheering, and not only have they not won a championship since the sixties, the old cocksucker of a owner said fuck you Cleveland, I'm going to Baltimore. That sucks.
Ill never forget this game. I was 11 and I still lived in cleveland at this time. We had such a great team back then. its all about to start again this season!!!!!
That's right. Two choke teams going at it for ultimate choking rights. Unlike the Browns, who choked in AFC Championship games, the Bills surpassed them and took their choking to the grandest stage, the Super Bowl, where they choked 4 straight times.
Jim Kelly had 400 yards passing and 4 TD's. Guy was an absolute stud when he was on, especially after they started the K-Gun offense. Kelly, Thomas, Reed, Lofton, Beebe, dominated the AFC during that era. Too bad they could never get it done in the Superbowl.
Bills fan here. File this one under "Football at its best." Two great QBs at the top of their games with two excellent defences without the quarterback-biased rules of today.
You mean the no huddle they stole from the 1988 Bengals who beat them in the 1988 AFC Championship Game with the no huddle offense. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!
@@bodombeastmode They put too much confidence in Thurman Thomas! He simply caught passes out backfield which were given to him by defense! He was never a playmaker
The Bills losing this game that way was a sinking feeling..looking back it was an outstanding playoff game. Played outdoors on the natural (shitty) field, high scoring, big plays, dramatic finish. Great job by both announcers as well the late Charlie Jones and Merlin Olsen. My favorite Bills game to watch that they lost.
When the French first discovered Buffalo, Niagara Falls and the Niagara River in circa 1678 , they called it Beau Fleuve which translated to english means Beautiful River . Over time as many place names evolve or devolve, and became an English speaking area, it became known as Buffalo .
I watched on TV and remember that in this game the Bills start to use the no-huddle that make the Browns D crazy. Remember Clay Mathews call a time out to try to break the Bills rhythm. Buffalo should win this one! Ronnie Harmon just drop the potential winning TD pass from Kelly. Great game!
Ironic that during Buffalo's run with Jim Kelly in the postseason, ALL FOUR of their losses came to AFC Central teams...Cincinnati in the 88 AFC Championship Game, Cleveland here in the 1989 AFC Divisional Round, Pittsburgh in the 1995 AFC Divisional Round, and Jacksonville in the 1996 AFC Wildcard Game. They went 8-0 against AFC East and West teams from 1990-1995 in the postseason.
James Lofton was still maybe the best deep threat in the NFL even at 34-35 years of age. What a great player he was and a HUGE factor in 3 out of the 4 Bills AFC Championship teams. He retired after the 92 season and could have still played even longer. That Bills team had 2 of the greatest WR in NFL history in Lofton and Andre Reed. I think Lofton is the oldest WR in NFL history to gain over 1,000 yards in a season other than Jerry Rice
What’s crazy is that he put up most of his numbers in Green Bay and they were sorry af back in the 80’s. Who the hell was even throwing him the ball 🏈?? I don’t even remember who any of the Packers quarterbacks were before Don Majikowski.
Really appreciate these uploads. This is one of the more underrated playoff games I can remember. No one really talks about this game. Do you by chance have the Bengals-49ers game from 1987, where Sam Wyche ran the ball on 4th down with 6 seconds left instead of punting (with a 26-20 lead) and the 49ers scored on the last play of the game?
the greatest youtube channel ever.....can you please post the chiefs and bucs game from 79, when it rained like crazy? Always wanted to see that game and not just highlights. thanks
Its great to see the Browns win a close one . I think the last close, Browns end of game win before this , was around the time of the signing of the Magna Carta, circa 1215 a.d.
I've realized recently that young Bills fans don't know the name Ronnie Harmon. We've endured so much suffering that his name is buried under more recent scars.
I was 15 when this game was played and was (still am) a huge Browns fan. The last twenty seconds of this game were possibly the most uncomfortable moments of my life. Even worse than John Elway and "The Drive" in the 1986 AFC Championship game. When that ball hit Harmon's hands in the back of the end zone I thought it was over.
Charlie Jones was such an underappreciated broadcaster. He was stellar. And Merlin Olson paired with Jones was better than the more famous Olson-Enberg combination.
A fun fact about this game was the fact that this game would be the last for Merlin Olsen as an analyst for NBC. Prior to the season, NBC demoted Olsen who had been the No. 1 analyst for NBC since 1977 and was replaced by Bill Walsh who retired from coaching after his victory in Super Bowl XXIII. Olsen would move to CBS for the 1990 and 1991 seasons before retiring from the booth. Another bit of information from this video is at the 7:13 mark you here Charlie Jones mention Oliphant. That would be Mike Oliphant (#33) who was the player that the Browns received for trading Earnest Byner to the Washington Redskins after the 1988 season. However, that move didn't do much for the Browns as Byner would get a Super Bowl ring during the 1991 season and would return to Cleveland before the team moved to Baltimore. Oliphant on the other hand, ended up with hamstring injuries that sat him for the entire 1990 season and most of the 1991 season before letting him go. He would sign with Seattle but was cut before the 1992 regular season, ending his NFL career. Oliphant played three more years in the CFL before calling it a career altogether in 1995.
So this was.before the 4-SB run by the Bills. How long their dominance was???? It was a pitty to see my Marino's Dolphins play in the same era than this awesome Bills team. They are treated unfair, the run they did was nothing short of historic.
Not a Browns fan, but it would be awesome if the Browns pull off the upset against Mahomes & KC, so we can get a Bills/Browns AFC Championship game. I'd love to see that.
I miss this time in sports. I was just 9. But I remember like it was yesterday. These players played for the love. Not the big contracts like the spoiled entitled brats today. 80's was a great time to be alive. I would do anything to go back to that time. Anything!!
What a game. This would be the Browns last crack at a Superbowl. They could never get past Denver. The Bills would go on to win the AFC championship for the next FOUR YEARS !! And lose to the NFC East in the Superbowl for ..... The next 4 years 😑
This was a changing of the guard game when you look back on it. From 86-98, the Browns were one of the powerhouse teams in the AFC making 3 of 4 AFC championship games. 89 was the last year for this group before the early 90s rebuild under Belichick. Buffalo, meanwhile discovered the magic of the 2 minute offense which became their K-Gun scheme that propelled them to four straight Super Bowls
This is gridiron style football.. this game is amazing to watch.. Everything about it is hardnose no fluff football.. these men don’t deserve to be connected to the garbage that the nfl has turned into these days. Salute to them
Yes, modern NFL fans, there once was a time where both the Bills and the Browns had good football teams...
Ik cause i was in the dawg pound during this game!
The Bills looked pretty damn good this year. 10-6 and a playoff berth. Would've been 11-5 if they didnt sit all their starters in Week 17. They'll be back next year. One of the youngest teams in the league with a very good head coach in Sean McDermott and the GM Brandon Beane is very good at drafting. For the first time in many years the Buffalo Bills are relevant again
@@plmuzik21 lucky; long time cleveland fan wish i could’ve seen it
Now they are both back in the playoffs
@@RellyRell-ud3iz they both won in the same playoffs for the first time ever on the weekend
Whew, that's one of the best games you never hear people talk about.
You are absolutely right, I love to watch those Historic NFL game during the off-season. Both team were really talented, what a game!
1989 Bill's underachieved. They were the best team in the afc. Special teams in 88 was the best ever. 89 it let them down at times and this game was a good example. Forget Harmon the STs lost the game
Yea that probally is the best game no one talkd about
True!!!!
@@wildatheart5832 Agreed!!!
There is something about late 80s early 90s cold muddy weather games that just hits different now.
I'm a Bills fan from Buffalo, and I remember watching this game, while waiting to board a plane to El Paso, in Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland.
Ha Clay Mathews with the pic to end it. What a football legacy for that family.
Those Browns Unis were beautiful💯💯
@@IanMalcolm-rw5pn stadium a dump
True!!!!
The all-whites were much better. They, along with the orange helmets, "popped" against the gray Cleveland sky. Remember hearing someone from the '64 championship team saying the Browns looked so much bigger in white than the Colts did in Blue. EVERY Brown's championships were won in white jerseys.
This is the first game i fully understood football and fell in love with the Bills.I remember Harmon dropping the game winner for the Bills
Thanks for Sharing!!!!
Watched this game in Pittsburgh with a bunch of Buffalo fans. The Steeler fans (sore over a RARE losing season) wanted to fight all of us, lol. The Bills fans were SO nice and gracious after the game with us Browns fans! They went on to four Super Bowl appearances starting the next season. Still my second favorite NFL team.
I can still recall the tension watching this game, even after nearly thirty years...truly, old school stuff...if you never went to a game at the REAL Cleveland Stadium you missed out on the noise, the excitement, all of it...Bernie--Metcalf--Mack--Slaughter--Brennan...MY BROWNS!!!...
You’re right about that!!!!
All that cheering, and not only have they not won a championship since the sixties, the old cocksucker of a owner said fuck you Cleveland, I'm going to Baltimore. That sucks.
I always loved listening to Charlie Jones
You’re right about that!!!!
I watched this yesterday in it's entirety. The game was SO much more physical back then.
Ill never forget this game. I was 11 and I still lived in cleveland at this time. We had such a great team back then. its all about to start again this season!!!!!
Now, this is football.
That's right. Two choke teams going at it for ultimate choking rights. Unlike the Browns, who choked in AFC Championship games, the Bills surpassed them and took their choking to the grandest stage, the Super Bowl, where they choked 4 straight times.
James Belkin You're right about that!!
Eric Metcalf was BLAZING
And so was Thurman Thomas-Go Bills!!!!!
Jim Kelly had 400 yards passing and 4 TD's. Guy was an absolute stud when he was on, especially after they started the K-Gun offense. Kelly, Thomas, Reed, Lofton, Beebe, dominated the AFC during that era. Too bad they could never get it done in the Superbowl.
Would've been 416 yards, 5 TD's and one of the all time great playoff game-winning drives had Harmon not dropped that pass.
Bills fan here. File this one under "Football at its best." Two great QBs at the top of their games with two excellent defences without the quarterback-biased rules of today.
only pro game I've ever seen. Flat-out incredible.
Jim Kelly versus his successor in Coral Gables.
@@JosePerez-vz1qqyes the beginning of a NCAA Football dynasty The U
The "Don Beebe gets bounced on his head" game
Yes, now that you mentioned it!!!!
One of the best games ever
True!!!!
Metcalf was fast. Wow!
It's weird to see the Browns in the playoffs. Nowadays it's more like "Playoffs? Playoffs? We're just trying to win a game!"
We're in the playoffs!
Kosar had a funky delivery.
Very but he was extremely accurate.
He had that delivery since college. If it ain’t broke…
This was the beginning of the Bills no huddle idea...
You mean the no huddle they stole from the 1988 Bengals who beat them in the 1988 AFC Championship Game with the no huddle offense. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!
I wish there was a channel like this for the MLB too
Those bills teams in the early 90s are underrated
This was in 89
Underrated at losing super bowls definitely
@@bodombeastmode They put too much confidence in Thurman Thomas! He simply caught passes out backfield which were given to him by defense! He was never a playmaker
Right
Underrated in what sense? They are considered the best team to never win it all.
The Bills losing this game that way was a sinking feeling..looking back it was an outstanding playoff game. Played outdoors on the natural (shitty) field, high scoring,
big plays, dramatic finish. Great job by both announcers as well the late Charlie Jones and Merlin Olsen. My favorite Bills game to watch that they lost.
NFL, as much as I despise some of what you are.. these NFL Vault videos are GREAT! KEEP THEM COMING!
We live to please!
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Two great Canes duking it out!
When the French first discovered Buffalo, Niagara Falls and the Niagara River in circa 1678 , they called it Beau Fleuve which translated to english means Beautiful River . Over time as many place names evolve or devolve, and became an English speaking area, it became known as Buffalo .
Ronnie Harmon ....... You're Killing me man.
I watched on TV and remember that in this game the Bills start to use the no-huddle that make the Browns D crazy. Remember Clay Mathews call a time out to try to break the Bills rhythm.
Buffalo should win this one!
Ronnie Harmon just drop the potential winning TD pass from Kelly.
Great game!
Charlie jones is such a legendary commentator.
Ironic that during Buffalo's run with Jim Kelly in the postseason, ALL FOUR of their losses came to AFC Central teams...Cincinnati in the 88 AFC Championship Game, Cleveland here in the 1989 AFC Divisional Round, Pittsburgh in the 1995 AFC Divisional Round, and Jacksonville in the 1996 AFC Wildcard Game. They went 8-0 against AFC East and West teams from 1990-1995 in the postseason.
Man, I am a Bills trivia maven and I did not know that. Thanks for the info Manu!
If the Colts would have beat the Bills this past playoffs the Bills would have lost to all 4 AFC South teams in their last 4 playoff games
0-4 vs NFC East in SB 😂
AFC East was all sizzle no steak back then
Bernie Kosar was Cleveland's last great QB and it's not even close
Anthony Apodaca Tim couch wasn’t bad he got them to the playoffs once
amlnet49 😂
amlnet49 I think he actually did...2002
Jim Kelley was Bills last great Qb
@Michael Gregg
It's hard to name a team that Vinny DIDN'T play for.
Kozar vs. Kelly, two great gunslingers of the game :)
Mylum O'Shinn You mean Kosar!!!
Both recruited and coached by the man who brought Joe Namath to Tuscaloosa: Howard Schnelenberger.
Anyone else besides me miss these camera angles?
I don’t know if anyone remembers, but Thurman Thomas got MVP of this game in a losing effort.
James Lofton was still maybe the best deep threat in the NFL even at 34-35 years of age. What a great player he was and a HUGE factor in 3 out of the 4 Bills AFC Championship teams. He retired after the 92 season and could have still played even longer. That Bills team had 2 of the greatest WR in NFL history in Lofton and Andre Reed. I think Lofton is the oldest WR in NFL history to gain over 1,000 yards in a season other than Jerry Rice
What’s crazy is that he put up most of his numbers in Green Bay and they were sorry af back in the 80’s. Who the hell was even throwing him the ball 🏈?? I don’t even remember who any of the Packers quarterbacks were before Don Majikowski.
Lofton was built like Randy Moss without the ups
This is the greatest channel on TH-cam
Really appreciate these uploads. This is one of the more underrated playoff games I can remember. No one really talks about this game. Do you by chance have the Bengals-49ers game from 1987, where Sam Wyche ran the ball on 4th down with 6 seconds left instead of punting (with a 26-20 lead) and the 49ers scored on the last play of the game?
One of the most under rated games of all time that does get any love.
True!!!
WHAT A GAME THIS WAS!
Yes it was!!!!
Nice....please keep these games coming. I am enjoying the nostalgia.
Can't Stop Won't Stop!
You see Millennials, the Browns use to be contenders. They just could never get to the Super Bowl because of the Broncos.
These two teams nearly met in the AFC Championship Game back in January
Was there. I really miss that old stadium sometimes. Go browns forever and ever amen 🙏
This would be a dream AFC Championship Game 😱😱
the greatest youtube channel ever.....can you please post the chiefs and bucs game from 79, when it rained like crazy? Always wanted to see that game and not just highlights. thanks
Its great to see the Browns win a close one . I think the last close, Browns end of game win before this , was around the time of the signing of the Magna Carta, circa 1215 a.d.
um look up Jets vs. Browns from the 86 playoffs. Double Overtime game
@@Sephiroth766 NFL's greatest games
0:36 my man took a helmet straight to the dome and gave him props afterwards haha
I've realized recently that young Bills fans don't know the name Ronnie Harmon. We've endured so much suffering that his name is buried under more recent scars.
One of my very favorite games even though my Bills lost. Poor Don Beebe took a bounce off the ol' noggin. Thank goodness for helmets eh? :)
SPTO, I was watching that full game just the other week. Jim Kelly was phenomenal
I can't believe they didn't show that in the highlights! That was the one thing I remember about this game
I remember watching Beebe flip over and land on his head. His neck compressed like a spring and then bounced back out.
Yep, the cork screw bounce. Legendary moment.
Field actually looks to be in good shape for old Municipal.
Place was like Oakland collesium
What a great game!! Look at all the great players on the field! These were fantastic days for the NFL!! If I only knew then, how things would be now 🤨
I was 15 when this game was played and was (still am) a huge Browns fan. The last twenty seconds of this game were possibly the most uncomfortable moments of my life. Even worse than John Elway and "The Drive" in the 1986 AFC Championship game. When that ball hit Harmon's hands in the back of the end zone I thought it was over.
Ronnie Harmon’s follow up to his ‘86 Rose Bowl
Yes...His history in big games is sickening....
Charlie Jones was such an underappreciated broadcaster. He was stellar.
And Merlin Olson paired with Jones was better than the more famous Olson-Enberg combination.
Holy shit, Webster Slaughter. I loved him.
this is the birth of the no huddle offense in buffalo
Yes, now that you mentioned it!!!
Kelly vs Marino best classic match and I'm a dolphin fan
I was at this game. One of the few wearing Bill's gear in the dog pound!
Thanks for Sharing!!!!!
If anyone else is watching all these old highlights you are not alone in appreciating how great the generated first down line is in today’s NFL.
Not a fan of either of these teams. But this one still ranks as one of the best playoff games I've seen.
Of that 1989 postseason, this was the best playoff game of that postseason, for those of u who r generation Xers
browns...playoffs? those are two words i haven't heard together in a longgg time
All I can say is epic battle.
A fun fact about this game was the fact that this game would be the last for Merlin Olsen as an analyst for NBC. Prior to the season, NBC demoted Olsen who had been the No. 1 analyst for NBC since 1977 and was replaced by Bill Walsh who retired from coaching after his victory in Super Bowl XXIII. Olsen would move to CBS for the 1990 and 1991 seasons before retiring from the booth. Another bit of information from this video is at the 7:13 mark you here Charlie Jones mention Oliphant. That would be Mike Oliphant (#33) who was the player that the Browns received for trading Earnest Byner to the Washington Redskins after the 1988 season. However, that move didn't do much for the Browns as Byner would get a Super Bowl ring during the 1991 season and would return to Cleveland before the team moved to Baltimore. Oliphant on the other hand, ended up with hamstring injuries that sat him for the entire 1990 season and most of the 1991 season before letting him go. He would sign with Seattle but was cut before the 1992 regular season, ending his NFL career. Oliphant played three more years in the CFL before calling it a career altogether in 1995.
So this was.before the 4-SB run by the Bills. How long their dominance was???? It was a pitty to see my Marino's Dolphins play in the same era than this awesome Bills team. They are treated unfair, the run they did was nothing short of historic.
Fact
The decline motion from the 80s is the best thing
I think that cleveland stadium was so badass.
That was a terrible stadium with a terrible field
Cleveland really shut the door with that interception
Also, Thurman Thomas really showed alot of grit in this game
Please post the full condensed highlights of the Bills vs Oilers wild card comeback!
Not a Browns fan, but it would be awesome if the Browns pull off the upset against Mahomes & KC, so we can get a Bills/Browns AFC Championship game. I'd love to see that.
Buffalo. The Dan Marino's Nightmare
I miss this time in sports. I was just 9. But I remember like it was yesterday. These players played for the love. Not the big contracts like the spoiled entitled brats today. 80's was a great time to be alive. I would do anything to go back to that time. Anything!!
Original browns dammmm
Browns were good in the 80's.
Browns kicked butt in the 80s, but Dallas kicked butt in the 90s
Why did they not win more world championships
Sawyer Princl Jon Elway
The drive
When both teams were still relevant lmao. Great game.
HERE WE GO BROWNIES HERE WE GO!!!!!!
The no-huddle is common now even in MS and HS football, but back in '89 it was new, a totally fast way to play football at the time.
Gosh golly batman.
I wonder if there is gonna be a 22 year anniversary rematch ?
Gotta love Rigged FL
Last time Cleveland would host a divisional round game to date (2020 season)
Two Miami QBs
Can I like this comment 20xs
@@harbour08 as much as you like waiting on the Canes to put another stud QB in the league you can probably like it 1000 times by then lol
More games 😁
Who are the announcers? They are great. What a great game. Kelly is fantastic.
It is Charley Jones and Rams great Merlin Olsen.
@@viviandarkbloom100 THANK YOU!
@@kirpalite No worries.....I love Charley Jones voice....he did AFC Games on NBC for many years.
Got excited watching this.....then I remembered what happened the following week😭😭😭
What a game.
This would be the Browns last crack at a Superbowl. They could never get past Denver.
The Bills would go on to win the AFC championship for the next FOUR YEARS !!
And lose to the NFC East in the Superbowl for ..... The next 4 years 😑
2023 this could be AFC CHAMP GAME
Wow what a game
Metcalf was smoking guys back then. Thurman was that dude though. Lateral agility and quickness was something special. What a time
Next season will be the start of the "K-Gun Bills"
Back in the days when most of the stadiums were dumps but the average person could afford a ticket.
“Browns” and “AFC Divisional Playoffs” don’t fit in the same sentence
Adam E In the mid-late 80’s it was the complete opposite...
Adam E don't you have a football game to play
Daniel Espinosa It was a day game since the teams field doesn’t have lights. We won btw
Adam E great
That's because this is the Baltimore Ravens playing. They just used the name "Cleveland Browns" for half a century.
This was a changing of the guard game when you look back on it. From 86-98, the Browns were one of the powerhouse teams in the AFC making 3 of 4 AFC championship games. 89 was the last year for this group before the early 90s rebuild under Belichick.
Buffalo, meanwhile discovered the magic of the 2 minute offense which became their K-Gun scheme that propelled them to four straight Super Bowls
Your right
The celebration has me deadass 😂😂😂😂 4:27
This is gridiron style football.. this game is amazing to watch.. Everything about it is hardnose no fluff football.. these men don’t deserve to be connected to the garbage that the nfl has turned into these days. Salute to them
As a Bills' fan, this was one of the earlier painful playoff losses. Harmon had been a good player for the Bills. If only he had caught that pass...
Am I seeing things or was the kick at 2:11 actually short? Played it back a few times in slow motion and the ball seems to not go over the crossbar?
I know those Bills fans gave Harmon hell after that game because of that TD drop
Don't know if we was still in bounds had he caught it though
Great game, but Iam Surprised it doesn't get talked about as much!!!!
The Browns kicker made his best kick on a bad snap where the ball was almost at a 45 degree angle, not really what you'd expect lol