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Cleveland's misfortunes began in the first game of the year when quarterback Bernie Kosar went down with a shoulder injury. Kosar endeared himself forever to Clevelanders after his graduation from the University of Miami five years ago when he announced he wanted to play for the Browns. Instead of entering the NFL's regular draft, Kosar opted for the supplemental draft, allowing Cleveland to pick...
...only were the Broncos outshone by the Browns in their 38-33 shoot-out, but Denver's sublime John Elway also looked to be only the second-best quarterback on the field. Doing his awkward and wonderful impression of Johnny Unitas, Bernie Kosar was blithely leading the Browns back from a 21-3 half- time deficit when Runner Earnest Byner dropped the season on the three-yard ! line. In the locker room afterward, the Broncos players were unusually quiet, and not only because of the nature of their victory. They remembered last year...
Although 6-ft. 5-in. tall, Bernie Kosar of Youngstown, Ohio, and Miami, Fla., was still only 21. To give Kosar time, Veteran Gary Danielson was acquired from Detroit, but in the fifth game last season Danielson fell. By then, he knew his understudy's talent. "I'll either be out two weeks," he predicted, "or 15 years...
...this season, the most in the modern history of the franchise, Cleveland has the brightest record in the American Football % Conference and the biggest head of steam. However far the Browns go in the play-offs, they will not have to leave town. "The main thing with our team," Kosar says, "is that we are a team...
Neither the offense nor the defense is ranked with the league's elite. No rusher, not even Kevin Mack, stands among the top 20. No receiver is in the top 30. But it is a team that does not hurt itself much anymore. Of the 531 passes Kosar has attempted, just ten have been intercepted...