The Game the NFL Wants YOU TO FORGET
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In 2001, the Browns played the Jaguars in the infamous game known as "bottlegate". After a shocking decision made by the referees, the stadium erupted and began throwing bottles at anyone and everyone on the field. This video gives the full story on what exactly took place on this fateful day.
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The refs are just lucky this happened in Cleveland. They wouldn’t have gotten out of Philly alive.
Matt King true af
Seriously there would've been a casualty. Philly fans are the absolute worst!
Shid Philly soft ass fans woulda baked em brownies
Matt King Santa Claus himself didn’t make it out of Philly lol
You're talking as if that is an accomplishment
Commentator: "You're only hurting yourself by throwing stuff onto the field."
Fans: Lol
@Blasphemer Do you even know what a weeb is?
Why????
I thought I was the only one who noticed that. They're unnerving the people on the field, not hurting themselves at all.
The way he said it like he didn't believe it either 🤣
Was that Brent Jones? Par for the course.
I saw that game live. Will never forget it. It was the last time they served beer in the bottles.
This is one the biggest prime examples when referees make bad calls.
So this game was the start of plastic cups & aluminum bottles for beer at concerts & sporting events. I figured that when I saw glass bottles being thrown
I remember that too. No more glass anything allowed.
@@jasons9812 makes sense
@@Brandon68plus1 if you look at the original footage, it's mentioned that the bottles are plastic
I was at this game, closest thing to a riot I've ever been in. People were throwing literally anything they could get their hands on. The funniest thing about it to me was how one instigator can basically incite a riot. If you watch the whole video one bottle hits . . . then there's like a 3 or 4 second delay and all the rest come raining down and pandemonium ensues lol
Only takes the catalyst of one person to do what everyone else is just thinking of doing.
The fact that Cleveland fans were dumb enough to hate Modell and not the MAYOR who basically gave the same deal that ART wanted a few months later shows how stupid these people are as a whole. Didn't they vote Democrat this year? It explains it.
Mob rules
I have to ask. Did you toss one lol
karnagefails333 Proves that just a few bad apples can cause a chain reaction. Makes everyone go ballistic.
Browns owner: no one got hurt
Announcer: SOMEONE JUST SPLIT THEIR HEAD WIDE OPEN
Appple With three p’s Interestingly they didn’t show that dude in the video.
Nathan Jarboe uhmmm that’s not really appropriate as in a condition where the guy GOT HIS HEAD SPLIT OPEN
Never saw anyone with their head split wide open.. did you??
@@macrognsqd 5:06 I think it was that guy with his head sideways in the bottom-center of the video, but anyway HE SPLIT HIS HEAD WIDE OPEN!
They were plastic beer bottles, nobody's head was split open
I remember watching this game as a kid with my grandmother. She kept saying "well I'll be damned"
Damn this is crazy
I can only imagine what it would’ve been like, my dad probably would be throwing shit.
@@lazm0o my girlfriends dad was lol go Cleveland
😂😂
My family used to all get together to watch the games on Sunday at my grandparents house. My grandfather was a huge Browns fan, being from Cleveland himself, and was just screaming, "Yeah, throw more shit at these shitty refs!".
Ah, Bottlegate... I remember that game vividly... My dad huddled over my pre-teen self and my younger cousin, worried that we'd get hit by bottles coming from behind us, the officials and players running in fear for their lives, and listening to the final plays on the radio outside after escaping the stands...
It's all about making memories with the family
this is as bad as the soccer fans
@@oldermusicloverwhich football fans are talking about? Do you mean the ones in Milan who threw flares during a football game?
LMAO@@HFHoss75
@@BrisbaneBroncosfan67 but then again I remember one Minnesota Vikings game years ago where some dumb idiot threw a bottle at the ref and almost him with it, also were throwing snowballs with rocks inside of them. and some baseball games where bottles were being thrown out of the stands.(in face it REALLLLY AMAZED ME) after that incident, which as I recall was in Yankee stadium, that they were letting people inside with bottles in their packs and were selling beer in bottles.
With how bad officiating has been the past few years I feel we’re moving closer and closer to another Bottlegate.
I don't officiating is markedly worse or better. Replay and camera angles are better, and fans are less forgiving of mistakes, expecting nothing less than perfection as if they themselves have never made a bad judgement call in their entire lives.
@@coloradodrives7784refs calls are usually intentionally bs, worse than any person who has played or coached or officiated football would make, because they are made to by the nfl, look up how statistically the oakland raiders have been screwed by calls for so many years
They've been more open than ever. In fact more calls against the Browns opponents than them!
they favor tom brady too much. as soon as hes out of the league things will be different
As a Saints fan I can attest how close we’ve come to rioting…
The audience helped one dude throw a bench.
That's what I call team work.
timestamp?
I saw multiple
😂😂😂
Football is a team sport. On and off the field.
😂
That’s why they don’t sell bottles anymore.
Should also be the reason no one buys tickets anymore
I got a bottle at my last game..
HuskyCruxes oh really? Every time I’ve been I haven’t seen bottles just cups and those non glass bottles
Only plastic bottles
@@shawnkampf1114 incorrect. I had one of those shitty aluminum ones
I remember this game. It still shocks me how they, in good conscience, made that call. It was absolutely the wrong thing to do, to change the outcome of the game like that and then just try to end the game.
I wonder who had money on the game...
I was at that game, it was my 10th birthday and I just started to get into football. when people started throwing beer bottles at the field, I didn't know what was going. All I remember was that me, my dad and my brother left and headed towards the parking lot. Long story short, I moved to California a few months later and I didn't watch football until I was 15, as a 49ers fan.
Jeez that would’ve ruined football for me for life. At least you were able to get into it later. 😊
Wow very informative
Sounds about right for a 49ers fan.
A 49ers fan, huh? Well you must be sitting pretty right about now!
I would be scared to the big Money and the lack of loyalty is the reason I am no longer a sports fan per say
NFL Rules Office: “you’ve got to head back out and finish the game.”
Refs: “Oh shit......we’re dead.”
The rules office was out of their fucking minds
The NFL has some strange rules
@@asudom172 Just say "no," even if it costs you your job.
The rules office should have told the referees to go back out there, reset the clock, and finish the game with the Browns having the ball since league rules say once another play has started you can't change the call. The crowd would have settled down and they could have finished the game.
@@happyhankjr 20 years later the refs are still making s***** calls against the Browns some things never change!
Just imagine paying for good seats right on the field and all the bottles people threw that didn't quite have the arm to make it to the field.. 😕
Nate
lets face it, your average american isn't very bright
They got helmets
Zachery Barrett the fans don't have helmets
@Oh yeah chungus Nah. I'm an American and I know that shit isn't true at all.
The guy who dissed America is probably American I swear ppl just need something to hate on!! I’m not a browns fan at all but I don’t blame the fans and yeah the ppl who paid for good tickets got screwed!!!!! Sucks.
Gotta imagine, this was like 2 MONTHS after 9/11 so people are already probably stressed and pissed. Can't imagine being a ref that day.
Three months after the 9/11 terrorist incidents
Fans: Throw beer bottles onto the field
Janitor: 🙄
One thousand hours of overtime!!!!!!!!!
Yup 😑
@@MrAquinas1 only if you're on a union job. any other job & the boss would have to get permisson from the company's main headquarters. (usually out of state) unlike other professions, custodians can't randomly get OT with time and a half.
😂
Janitors would just quit after seeing the field full of bottles
Browns owner: No one got hurt.
Announcers: There’s a guy on the ground with his head split open.
Amazing they could see that from the booth. Almost like they exaggerated.
Remember, the refs and the NFL caused this. The fans simply reacted to being treated like shit.
Rifty fab
Fish gang
Didn't see anybody with their head "Split open". Another case of media over exaggeration. Bad fans ! Bad fans!
@@bigthingspoppinrules Yeah, the fans had a right to be animals. Justification for being mindless.
On October 1st 1970 in Philadelphia at Connie Mack Stadium, they had a fan insurrection that made this Cleveland game look like a block party. It was the last game at Connie Mack and the fans came looking for souvenirs and wanting to destroy the stadium. It wasn't because the Philadelphia Phillies were leaving to go to another city. It was because they were staying and continuing the tradition of 88 years without winning a World Series. A fan actually ran out in the 9th inning and tackled the Phillies left fielder as he was running to catch the fly for the last out and a Phil's win. The fan said, "No no, we're not winning tonight." TRUE STORY. THE UMPIRES WANTED TO FORFEIT THE GAME SEVERAL TIMES, BUT BOTH MANAGERS TOLD THEM IF THEY FORFEITED, THE BRAWL WOULD BE WORSE.
I was there. Your account reeks of bs. We got our souvenirs. Oscar Gamble got the game winning hit.
They should have simply not allowed fans into the stadium.
Or had the National Guard there-locked and loaded.
The last game at Municipal Stadium ever was a Browns game in December and the fans ripped out everything that they could get their hands on. If it wasn't bolted down....they found a way to take it....
Noone can erase the past....even the almighty NFL.
No one can erase what's put on the internet. 😆 🤣 😂
What the fans did wasn't right but at the same time you are professional officials at the highest level.. there's no excuse for the fans knowing the rules better than you..
True dat
Yasss
Are condoning it?
Cody Eble Why’d his catch me off guard?
At the same time the fans through glass at people. The officials were terrible but saying it like that is a bit off. Booing is fine, leaving is fine but throwing glass bottles at people is ridiculous and childish
Every official involved in this game should have been fired immediately after the game.
For what? They did their job making the Browns lose. I was at that game. Only fans of favorite franchises are shocked when officials cheat.
The entire league should be shut down. 10 minutes of football per 3+ hour game and retarded/corrupt officials. This league is a fucking joke and so is anyone who is a patron of it.
Ok boomertard
@@HarryBalzak Explain the REAL reason why you're crying little harry nutsac. What's really bothering you kid ?
@@shanghunter7697 Do you want me to draw you a picture?
I was there. Can you imagine instead of spiking the ball the Browns had scored a touchdown on the play that “didn’t count?”
I remember that game, but honestly in Cleveland Browns expansion team history this isn't even to 10, in 1999 against the same team Orlando Brown took a flag to the eye from a ref, left the game for a few plays, then came back and shoved the ref who threw it. he was suspended but it was lifted once the NFL learned he was injured so badly that he missed 3 seasons from losing vision in the eye that was hit.
Legend has it, my dad threw a beer bottle from Jackson Ohio that landed on that field.
Hahahahahaha
My mom went to Jackson in High School.
Lol
@@EternalRoblox Maybe your mom got her cheeks clapped by the other guys dad 🤔
GREAT RESPONSE!
Browns Fans in 2001: *Throwing Beer Bottles*
The NFL: The Browns Fans are outa control.
Miles Garrett: hold my helmet
Now that's funny.
I'm a die hard browns and I had to laugh at that.
That made my night. 😂😂
I'm a browns fan as well and I laughed reading that lol
@Kaden May yep and pouncey had hes suspension reduced and he punched and kicked Garrett. I hope my browns whip their ass this week. Just on principle.
cOncuR J E L L i LMAOOOO
Don't forget about 5¢ beer night in Cleveland in like 1977, another proud moment for Cleveland. Also look up the Cleveland balloon release record attempt another classic.
I love Cleveland. Badasses. My kind of fans.
My dad and I live in Texas. However, if my dad and I were fans of the team that got screwed over, my dad would be screaming so loud, CANADA would have heard him!
I’m not even a Browns fan, and this REALLY pissed me off!!!!
I dont even watch rugby but it still pisses me off
@@kryrins bro what? rugby? xD
Facts
I know, can u imagine ur favorite team losing ur playoff chance cause the refs reversed a call 2 plays ago, fucking bull shot
Same
Oh so that's why they don't sell beer in bottles at stadiums anymore.
good
@Nerdd011 lol dont blame WV thats all Ohio
Nah breh that's all Cleavlend
@@MESSIfan10 lol yeh true that no all of ohio is browns fans.
You're absolutely right. I was at that game. After this one, they started selling the bottles with no caps, since they believed it to be less dangerous than being able to throw full beers. Not long after, however, they stopped selling bottles altogether. In Cleveland at least...
I was 42 when this happened. It reminded me of a incident that happened in my own town on October 25th 1976. A combination of record cold air, sports rivalries, alcohol and idiots set off a riot. People ran onto the field to tackle the players, Fights broke out. Hundreds arrested and cops tackled a man waving a loaded gun.
Holy shit, imagine being a spectator and in your mind peaks to: let's tackle a professional football player, that's gonna work
oh geesh glad they caught him
What players
Godamn!! lol…are you from Philly by chance? 😀
And refs fucking up BIG time and doing shit unheard of
This turned 4 years old today. KTO is still a legend to this day and love his content
And NFL officiating has somehow not gotten any better since then. Smh.
Cleveland also hosted the infamous “10 cent beer night” at an Indians game in 1974!
Nice cut
OriginalGrasshopper what was that
5 cents
In brewers
Cleveland is a riot! Literally
I'm surprised the 2019 refs haven't had this happen to them.
I remember the 2012 replacement refs with their different, and extremely capricious, interpretation of offensive interference causing massive uproar. It even came up in the Vice Presidential debate.
Exactly
Thank god the crowds are humane now, cuz refs nowadays are ridiculous
Keith Kevelson 2012 was one of the worst years for the NFL.
Zurrk ..its a matter of time..it will happen again
I grew up 30 min outside Cleveland and I’m a die hard Browns fan. I watched that game and I knew some people in the stands. It got completely out of control. It’s 100% the Ref’s fault. That entire game had questionable calls against Cleveland. The fans were frustrated and blew up.
My best friend bought us tickets to the next weeks’ game, at Lambeau Field, where the Packers were hosting the Browns. Sitting in The Stadium View Bar & Grill, before the game, watching clips of this on one of the pregame shows, an idea for a sign struck me. I had one of the bartenders fetch me a big piece of a cardboard box, and a roll of bailing wire, that he just happened to have under the bar, along with a big black magic marker. I wired an empty plastic 16 ounce Miller Lite bottle to the cardboard, with the caption: “NOT FOR SALE TO MINORS”, - (Or Browns Fans!). I may have gotten on TV, not sure, but every Packer fan that saw it, laughed hysterically, while every Browns fan just groaned and rolled their heads.
A game so badly handled it's crushed Cleveland's postseason hopes for the rest of the century.
The century? Browns might very well make postseason this year. Even if they don't they're looking real good to do so over the next few years.
@@jaylucien669 Stop daydreaming...its the f@$ing Browns. They've been garbage for decades and will continue to be garbage
@@jaylucien669 they lost to the bucs. THE FUCKEN BUCS, And lost to the raiders! Lmao
The browns went to the playoffs in 2001 lol
Jay Lucien it’s a joke stfuw
Reviewing a replay 2 plays before ??
Thats cheating ..
Firas Francis that’s why they pissed
@@ajwhite3758
They deserved it .. Loyal Fans lol
Firas Francis lmao we are loyal, I’m sorry drunks did this more than a decade ago
@ItzMeReify False. Stop being butthurt because they beat your team routinely.
Sounds like a Belechik move
I was at a baseball game that year at the new Brewers stadium in the bleachers to see the Cubs play. A security guard confiscated a Cubs flag from a fan after Sosa hit a homer. As soon as he took the flag there were about 20 plastic beer bottles in the air most of them on target hitting him LOL. Security teams tried to blame my friends and I cause we had Cubs gear on. We all showed them our beers and were like I'm not throwing an $8 beer LOL. Those bottles were such a bad idea.
I was at this game when I was 10, it's crazy the false memories that happen over the years, I had thought the game was so emotional because while this game was happening it was something like the team that was last place in the wild card had lost and the browns winning would have put them in that last wild card spot
But no, looking it up, looking at schedules, it seems what happened was the browns were 6-4, fans were probably excited for the team looking good, then lost 2 in a row, so losing to a team they should easily beat in the Jaguars is just frustrating, all the while the teams that were on the border of the wild card had won, so they needed to win this game in order to stay relevant but lost, and this game officially eliminated them from the playoffs
Announcer: "The Crowds gotta stop throwin' bottles someones head split right open!"
*2 seconds later*
KTO: *"Square Space is really good!"*
Beandog 2 seconds later, nobody got hurt.
I really wonder how that person is doing...
BlenderFish InAJar dead
Janitor: am I a joke to you?
Cystic 😂
Cystic :D ayyy memes! xD
memes indeed brother
Lol
LMAO ur profile pic
Legend has it that there is still one old lady still throwing bottles onto that field 21 years later. Martha “the maniac” Johnson! Look it up
This still makes me angry with those officials
"You're only hurting yourselves from throwing bottles onto the field" lol, doesnt look that way from where I'm sitting.
aku71u 1 dude was just some jackass trying to act morally superior
I watched this game. I heard later, don't know if it's true, that one of the Jacksonville players told one of the Cleveland players, "I wish we had fans like this."
This is exactly the kind of bullshit Jaguars fans have to put up with: garbage rumors that targeted them as a fanbase. Attendance for Jaguars games didn’t begin to drop below 65k until 2009 right after the housing crisis crash. We’ve been trying to rebuild our fanbase since that year, but you can’t do that with constant losing season.
Ironically, if people keep lording things like “I hope their fans lose the team” and they finally find a way to start winning again like they did in the late 90’s, this sort of thing may repeat itself as Jags fans will likely be very inhospitable towards anyone not from Jax. There’s a reason we now shout “Duval vs all y’all”.
jrvegeeta I don’t think that’s what he means by that
@@jrvegeeta I've never heard anyone say that stupid shit.
@@jrvegeeta Bud, Jags fans suck. Just admit it. You may be diehard, but there are likely fewer diehard Jags fans than any other team in the NFL, and I really don't think anyone would disagree with that statement. It's ok to be a good fan from a shit fanbase. That makes you stand out more. Good for you for being there for the squad.
PS- no offense but I hope Jags fans lose the team.
@@chrisg7731 Wow. Somebody hasn’t had their bottle today if you hate people for living in Jacksonville.
Seriously though, people that want to see others lose something have major mommy issues.
Cleveland is like that bottle of water where you dump all kinds of crap in there, just to see what you can create, and this game was certainly a mixture of that.
October, 1976 Schaeffer Stadium Foxboro, Mass. Monday night football. That was a game I will never forget. At least some one had the good sense to serve beer in plastic cups.
legend has it that the same refs officiated the saints vs rams game
Yeah that game was bull. The freaking missed pass interference call. That sucked!
Suprised it didnt have the same reaction tbh
Trace Mcsorley make sence
@Caesar G we all know your an absolute idiot
Nah browns bs chiefs
The ironic thing is the TV graphic above the score that said "Happy Holidays" :-)
Jody Schwieger it was anything but happy
predat0r178 considering what happened three months earlier when America was attacked.
More like "Unhappy Holidays" considering the fact that this took place 3 months after 9/11.
Stuart McPherran I agree. 2001 was a horrible year for America.
But in Philly we're the bad guys for throwing snowballs at Santa? 🤣
"You're only hurting yourself by throwing stuff on the field"...I beg to differ
This is going to happen again if the refs don't get their shit together.
It NEEDS to happen
@@justincase9284 Right!!
I was thinking the same exact thing.
*cough Lions @ packers
Very soon if they keep fucking up
Your telling me that these refs get payed 500k a year and they cannot remember a simple rule?
NFL refs do not get paid 500k a year 💀, at least those refs don’t
LOL That's what you took from that?
@@ryantrotter8592 C'mon, they get paid really good money by just being refs in football games.
@@user-ft4bl4lh9w ya good money but not anywhere near 500k a year 😂
It was rigged
americans: it's a riot!
europeans: looks like a derby, mate.
Thats the kind of stuff that ruined football for me growing up. Bad refs, worse calls and just all around idiocy from everyone involved in the NFL besides the athletes.
But the NFL still say that officials don't make bad call's.
Refs are corrupt
@@MrDudes52 yeah and I feel like most of them get paid off to make sure a certain team wins
Chad Brattain The refs don't make bad calls like Hawaiian shirts aren't garish 😉
the biggest problem is adding or shaving inches or more on spotting the ball. they should put chips in the balls and use a gps style system.
@@uchibenkei No doubt! It would be nice if the Reffing got into the 20th century, let alone this century.
There were several bad calls in this game... that last one was just the last straw.
Are you a Browns fan 👀
I’m a Pittsburgh fan and no. The Browns got RAPED! Straight up.
@@Chironex_Fleckeri well I’m a lions fan but if they reviewed a play that that 2 plays before and called it back I would be pretty pissed off as well!
It’s literally a game. I don’t know how people have so little self-control that they starting throwing bottles on the field at refs over bad calls. It’s just a game, there will be plenty of other games in the future these people needed some anger management classes
Bad call how? It was no catch and the challenge timeout occurred prior to the running of the following play. 100% correct call.
I saw something throw a god damn DISCMAN on the field! What a sight.
Great video - I forgot about this incident. I think the word you were looking for was "agreement".
The Browns fans throw better than a lot of Browns quarter backs over the years
John Mailand LMAO W
He's got a point
Damn son
LMAO!!
John Mailand oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooffffffffffff
I was at this game and still have my ticket.
browns or jags fan?
John Nappa Browns
Did you throw any bottles?
Dead Channel unfortunately, no. I was 15 at the time.
That's epic 😎
I watch this video like 10,000 times KTO has the best videos!
One of the big 5 in why you can’t get a bottle at most events .
Cleveland is wild lol. Same city as one of the most infamous MLB games ever , 10 cent beer night .
Damn right. Fans there are real. They were cheated in that game, they knew it, and they weren’t going to just sit there and take it. Good for them.
10 cent beers,2 cents worth of brains. Love it!
‘MERICA BABY!!!! That kind of passion is what we NEED now nationwide……..and maybe just maybe this country could be saved??!!!! (But don’t hold your breath……we are the land of pussies now!)
Cleveland rocks!
OHIO AGAINST THE WORLD!!!
Literally the worst officiating in sports. I know I’m a bit biased since I’m a Cleveland fan, but this is outrageous
i was there... people were pissed.... it was like -5 degree wind chill
@@cokeicee u have to be at least like 20 then
I'm a Pack fan. Ya'll got ripped off. I would have been irate as well.
You're not wrong. That was a bad move played by the refs
I'm a Steelers fan and even I think this was insane
lol@ "happy holidays" above the score.
I would include the Brady sack called roughing yesterday!
Why you don’t sell glass bottles at sports games
They stopped that right?
@@HookedonChronics yes this game is the reason you get plastic cups at NFL games
RickyPro I mean I could still chuck a crumbled can pretty far
yea but it wont do damage like a glass bottle would
Now they come in cups that fall apart after 20 mins lol
6:02 when Vegas calls the league office because they can not collect until the clock reads zero.
That's the honest truth there. RIP nfl
I'm not even a Browns fan. In fact, I've been a Steelers fan for over 50 yrs. But, it's so obvious the Browns were robbed of a playoff spot. It would have been their first time in the playoffs. There was no excuse for what the officials did. None!
THEY WERE PLASTIC!!!!! I had one of these bottles, sitting on my desk, as a conversation piece. When someone would ask about it, I'd say Bottlegate. But it's plastic! EXACTLY!!!! The batteries taken out of radios were the things hurting people, not the PLASTC bottles.
5:35
You are only hurting yourself by throwing stuff on the field...
Not from what I see
Daniel Lee yea the fans have nothing to lose
Yeah looked to me like them refs were getting it pretty hard. Fans seemed to be getting a good throwing arm tho.
If this had been a game in South America, those refs would be either seriously injured or dead.
Choppytehbear1337 that’s cause there ain’t no law down there and it’s ran by corrupt governments.
Dead for sure. Heads in a cooler.
The same if this was a soccer game in Europe. Heck, it wouldn't have to be this blatant of an issue for that to happen.
If this were in Europe, those refs would've been burned alive.
Dirty Sanchez is that something to glorify or something that is subhuman actions
"You're only hurting yourself by throwing stuff on the field."
I don't know, it seemed to me like it was hurting everyone on the field 😂
This was also the 228th anniversary of The Boston Tea Party.
Cleveland Beer Party
Wow what timing
What a crazy ass coincidence
Dang
Lol
This is now the official name of this event
I live in Cleveland, I attended this game, it was an ugly scene, I also had my young son with me, I remember shielding him from the shower of beer bottles. There is no doubt the fan’s overreacted, the mood in the crowd though was that they had been openly cheated out of a victory on national TV, which is absolutely true, the referees should have been held more accountable for their actions (not sure if they ever were). I believe in this day and age I would hope the NFL would pony up some of those billions of dollars they bring in to assure it never happens again, that was the last NFL game I went to and probably my last ever.
Dude thats kinda sad tbh, shielding your son from bottles.
That sucks ☹️ NFL=🤑🤮🤑
And 5 months after your comment...Two national anthems. People have completely lost their $h**.
That is sad😔tbh I’m only 8
No hate to the browns or browns fans but that was uncalled for and unnecessary
Refs and league deserved this moment. I don't blame the fans at all.
I'm a Jaguar fan and I will never forget that game
i remember this, this was what caused teams through out pro sports, to stop selling bottled beer at events
It's honestly crazy that it took so long to realize you shouldn't sell glass missiles to thousands of random drunk people lol
@@FunnieApple
But they sell well and it's far easier to not think about it until somebody gets hit by a string of lawsuits. Just pray you're not the guy getting sued.
never should have in the first place
This wasn’t glass, it was mostly plastic. This is why they switched from plastic bottles to aluminum cans.
@FunnieApple, it wasnt glass. It was hard plastic. If it was glass, half the bottles would have been broken on contact with another bottle.
2001 Was the year America wants you to forget.
I we forgot 2001 we will forget the Dawn of the Patriots dynasty
Tracy Zitting yeah... that’s what he’s talking about
@@tracyzitting9977 Yeah. How appropriate the same year 9-11 happened
the evil football empire began.
9/11 inside job false flag operation.
NeVer FOrgeT 911 letz RoLL crying eagle MURkA!
I was there for the nickel beer night. That stadium was out of control. The cops had buses lined up to take fans to jail. Win or lose we took our teams seriously in those days.
my dad was at this game he says it wasn’t the closest thing to a riot, he said it was a riot 😂
This was a total mess all the refs should have been fired..the common fan knows once another play is run you can’t go back to another what a joke
The team probably paid them to make that call lol
Clayton Smith it almost seems like that right? That was so bad
@@scottyp2505 Fr tho, biggest dumbass move on there part, 48sec is so much time left just to say, "We're ending the game cause of an old replay"
The refs ended the game. But league commissioner Paul Tagliabue called and told the refs to get the teams back on the field to finish the game.
The refs were the ones who made the incorrect decision to review the 4th down play, but Tagliabue is the guy who forced them to play it out long after everyone left the field.
They're fired now
I watched this game live.
They screwed Cleveland royally
I watched this game just now and I can also confirm the obvious
Why didn't Cleveland refuse to play until they reversed this call? You CAN NOT go two plays back and change a call
This moment reminds us of another finale. Last Raiders game in Oakland. Equally memorable
4:05 *Current Objective: SURVIVE*
If anyone needs proof that the NFL does not care about its athletes at all, just point at this game. They made them go back out into a riot to "finish a game". The NBA didn't even do that with the Malice at the Palace
I don't remember typing this
The game wasn’t finished yet moron
The game should've been forfeited!
Its not like something ia gonna happen differently, its like "Oh Jacksonville is stupid so they might throw the ball, browna intercept it, and they win"
Actually, it was about the refs more than the athletes. The players had protective equipment at least.
Simple answer dont break the rules of the game. If I was Terry McAulay I would have told the upstairs refs, I am not going to review a play from 2 plays ago. It undermines the review system, refs and integrity of the game.
McCauly has no balls. He is a shitty ref.
The NFL doesn't have any integrity.
@benny pitt, you have to said that the team in Cleveland was screw for the beginning. To make a
team in the time period which they were given was wrong. Look at the last game which the
Mayfield was running and beginning his slide. Mayfield was sliding at the end of a 35-yard
scramble when he got hit by Whitehead, who was initially penalized before the officials conferred
and decided to pick up the flag. No foul, he was a running back then and he is allow to hit in the
head. If I was the head coach and got the call from the league office stating that there should have a penalty for the hit, I would have said "Thanks for nothing, my quarterback could have been hurt or worse." Or look at the Oakland game. The Browns could have run the clock on the Hyde run which
the officials states he did not make the first down (which he did) in the 4th quarter. There are two wins right there. So the record should be 4-2-1 right now or even 6-1 (Thanks to bad kicking game
in the first two games) This team is about to take off.
@benny pitt mike vick killed my dog
First of all, i just had my first cup of coffee so ima bout to take the browns to the super bowl anyway!! 😳 go bengals! Second, i think this is when replay was in its infancy of sorts. Still working the bugs out. And third, i thought he was about to say the ravens were in town with the browns having a playoff shot. I guarantee that ssituation there wouldve had fans charging the field.
I am from Baltimore and A die hard Ravens fan and I remember this Fiasco
Being a Cleveland area native, this game was absolutely garbage. The players union should have stepped in and done something for the horrid calls at the end of that game. That cost Cleveland the potential game, and who knows how far they could have gone that year. It's the Browns curse though, "there's always next year" really is the unofficial motto.
Just be glad it wasn't "set of steak knives night"
What an unfortunate thing to happen on dozen egg night.
@@joshmitchell8370 someone get this man a hotdog
There's a reason MLB teams only hand out "mini" baseball bats to fans.
OJ would approve
20 years ago the browns had a chance to make the playoffs
20 years later the browns still have a chance to make the playoffs
Ik right they’re 9-3 right now
Chiefs kingdom baby, sry but browns ain’t got no chance
@@jayson6633 uh huh yeah, so what would you say happened today?
@@livorourke2369 seeing as how we’re 1. Number one in the division and conference 2. Number one in the league 3. Secured first round bye that I’m glad Los Angeles was able to play a decent game against our third string players. Simple 🤷🏽♂️
@@jayson6633 wut? I'm talking about the browns making the playoffs after you said they didn't have a chance. Idgaf about the rams and I like the chiefs. I know Cleveland won't win the superbowl but it's still a big deal for browns fans.
Absolutely everyone handled that situation 100% wrong!! That was ridiculous! They never should've reviewed that play that had happened 2-3 plays earlier..that was absolutely stupid of them!? Should've just said "oh well too late they already ran another play" and moved on and should've looked at the play that had just happened!!?
I kinda agree with the officials reviewing the play before the spike.
The reason is the Spike isn't technically a play. It's a stop clock move.
A spike is technically a play. If it wasn’t it wouldn’t count as a down.
Now I know why everybody uses plastic cups.
They do now....
Tracy Bell...do you understand football? They weren't challenging the penalty. They were challenging the play prior after the spike happened, which was not allowed. No team is charged a timeout for a challenge in the last two minutes, it's a booth review. Dumbest comment I've seen in a while.
If someone were to even try to pull a stunt like that today, security would pull them out in a heart beat. They have eyes on everybody lol
@@NolimitTEXAS it wasn't "someone" it was "some 10,000"
If I recall correctly this game was the very reason that the NFL banned glass bottle beverages in football games
I was in high school from 99-02, this really takes me back! I remember all this after watching the video, but I probably would've never thought about this again without watching this video. I'd say your title for the vid is accurate! That being said, I really enjoy the older stories you talk about. Thanks for all you do.
TylerR_41 what’s was high school like back then I just started high school right now
Columbine was the only shooting I recall around that era. (Quite tragic at that) Tv's were much bigger and bulkier, cell phones and internet were not nearly as relevant as they are today, and things were just a little bit easier and simpler. Good luck to you youngsters in school, use all this technology to your advantage! Lol
@Bongy Kala I was class of 02 also. You summed it up pretty good, I was at a class presidents meeting and we were flying paper airplanes to each other with inspirational messages on them (I shit you not, it was some communication exercise the staff was having us do) when I heard about 9/11 happening. I still get goosebumps when I tell that story. Hard to believe high school was 2 decades ago!
I was 7 when this happened. I still remember this. Crazy what happened both by the fans and the terrible officiating.
I still think Columbine is the only real school shooting. In other countries that have school shootings they have videos of it happening, just like Columbine, but all the shootings we supposedly had in the US, don't have any video of it happening. Hmmmm something is fishy. If it doesn't end up on Bestgore, then it didn't happened lol
The NFL should have apologized for having that level refs. They should have refunded the fans their money.
I remember watching that game. Worst officiating I'd seen, until I was in attendance at the Packers-Seahakws Fail Mary game. Had *that* game been played in Green Bay and not Seattle, I imagine Bottlegate would have looked like a walk in the park.
The referee cheated. I hope thats was the last game they officiated.
D Change nope
I wasn’t sure if they cheated but they suck and I wanted them to get hurt.
They didn’t cheat; they screwed up. The fans were the assholes.
@@RobJazzful Meh, the ref was an asshole. Some fans screwed up.
@@RobJazzful doesn't matter with the amount of money the NFL makes and the referees get paid there is Zero Tolerance for fuck ups