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[@youmustbethistall5861]

@8:33 "At the end of his career..." He actually finished his career with a Super Bowl Ring from the Cowboys; his last last playing days were as #2 behind Dan Marino in Miami. Bernie was the one who gave Dan Marino the "fake clock" call for a TD, which was early in the clock play's history. Always thinking - that should be Bernie's Legacy.

[@d.n.adatniccalexxx]

Bernie is still a hero in Cleveland🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@dbag3345]

@Costa Zambaras He's got CTE, spazmo

[@chadbailey30]

Was so pissed when he got cut mid season

[@d.n.adatniccalexxx]

Costa Zambaras sounds like you need a drink

[@rockyc6480]

The dog in my profile is my dog that we named kosar. Of course he’s named after beanie kosar Sadly my dog died a few years ago but he was 16 years old so he carried a legends name with him his whole life

[@billbillson2449]

Folks this is how you make yourself a legend in a city. We love Bernie it’s time to retire 19 already!

[@TL2354]

Legend? You have some low expectations

[@hoodiejelo6456]

Sorry but Brian Sipes number should be retired before Bernie, Sipe was better and won an NFL MVP in a stacked era of players.

[@jasonyoung3070]

There needs to be a football life show about kosar

[@chamber20projects]

How has this not happened!?

[@nrkgalt]

They can have Dan Marino describe how Bernie Kosar designed the fake spike play for him.

[@rollotomassi4768]

and his daughter

[@fletchf.fletch8242]

​@@rollotomassi4768 That's cold bro😂😂

[@r.williamcomm7693]

Agree 100%. I really liked Bernie.

[@Theboozehound-j9i]

So glad he got a ring with Dallas

[@yoheimito9172]

He's not a perennial pro bowl/all pro QB but he'll always be loved by the Dawg Pound . It's just sad how we break up with him and how Bellichick did him dirty.

[@TL2354]

1- It’s Belichick. You can at least get his name right. 2- The Browns never won a thing with Bernie 3- Did him dirty? Talk like a human

[@boscopappas234]

@@TL2354 I think a case can be made that it wasn’t Bernie’s fault they didn’t win . He didn’t fumble the ball in the red zone and he wasn’t on the field for Elway’s drive.

[@G.P_79]

@@TL2354 dude clearly hasn’t watched football.

[@KTF0]

Wasn't he hurt the last two years in Cleveland? I remember he had a broken ankle.

[@jasonyoung3070]

I love Berine I live in northeast Ohio & he's a hero here I went and watched him speak in Canton it was just awesome

[@crystalglass7106]

They should do a spot on Ernie Accorsi. Just look at the QB's this guy has drafted

[@MarkWoodChannel]

8:32, nope, he finished his career in Miami as a backup. Spent 3 years there after his one season in Dallas.

[@mattthedestroyer2804]

*Kosar's complicated circumsicion*

[@3_red_ducks773]

Matt TheDestroyer 2 yooo I thought it said that to

[@mattthedestroyer2804]

@@3_red_ducks773 it stopped at circum for my notification lol

[@laynebrooks3361]

Lmao I thought I was the only one that read it like that

[@andrewatha2920]

Who says the word circumvention

[@IsThisRain]

Lmao this is the exact reason I clicked on this video

[@j-fpilote1576]

The Bills played the supplemental draft perfectly to get boatload of selections and get out of the cellar...

[@MautDotA2]

Bill Polian is a genius.

[@TL2354]

@@MautDotA2 hahaha what?! He’s a career underachiever. The Bills won NOTHING. He did a good job with the Panthers but that was quick and the Colts were perennial chokers. Polian sabotaged a perfect season and they didn’t even win the Super Bowl. Get a clue

[@marktrevino8451]

Good thing Bernie won a Super Bowl with the Cowboys in ‘93

[@JamesSmith-vk2ky]

@Hector Rodriguez Better than nothing!!

[@dflatt1783]

@@JamesSmith-vk2ky I agree ... He did all he could with the Browns. Neither loss in the championship games is on him.

[@iamhungey12345]

@@JamesSmith-vk2ky Plus they let him take the last snap to end the game and before that, he played the second half of the NFC Championship game after Aikman got hurt.

[@dnasty312]

@Hector Rodriguez 4-0 though! And sealed the NFC Championship

[@mmsmith61894]

Hector Rodriguez he played a huuuuuge role in the NFC Championship Game against the 49ers. Aikman got concussed and Kosar got us to the Super Bowl.

[@talgwatr]

damn...Bernie was literally seconds away from 2 SB appearances & 1 National championship!!!!...Yet still has 1 National Championship & 1 SB ring!!!

[@omegaman6193]

Gotta respect Bernie Kosar

[@nickcupkovic5721]

Love Kosar always and forever

[@adamdorgant9454]

True!!!

[@bangyahead1]

It's sad for Browns fans that they never won the Bowl, but at least Bernie got a ring.

[@charismatic9904]

Always found this odd. Kosars back up who replaced him in college? Testaverde. Kosars back up who replaced him in the nfl? Testaverde

[@broncodeviltexas]

My favorite trivia about Bernie is that he played in a Super Bowl. (A kneel down for the Cowboys!)

[@rollotomassi4768]

and his team was in first place at the time and the coach was Bellichik.

[@BTLAGS]

From what Kosar said when he was back in U of Miami and he and testaverde were dueling for starting QB, Vinny had him beat out but the only reason he won the starting Job was his command of the offense compared to testverde's. Which in hindsight is true Kosar was far more clutch and less mistake prone compared to testervarde but the issue was Kosar was deemed fragile they didnt believe he would play for very long due to him being skinny.

[@richiehunt5097]

And two contrasting styles. Testaverde had a beautiful arm and throwing motion, but locked on receivers and didn't have good anticipation. Kosar looked like a guy losing a bar of soap in the shower when he threw the ball (credit Jim Murray), but had incredible anticipation and accuracy on very difficult throws.

[@TL2354]

@@rollotomassi4768 Belichick. You can at least get his name right

[@brettfavreify]

So in his career, Mike Lynn got the dirty end of the stick on two major trades.

[@MrJLov13]

What was the other trade? Help me out here, I only remember this one.

[@j-fpilote1576]

Vikings giving up the farm for Walker... dallas building a future dynasty.

[@rollotomassi4768]

Executive of the decade, lol.

[@rollotomassi4768]

Imagine him having to go into the owner's office and then telling him, remember that trade we made? We're not getting Bernie. Then to have to go back into the owner's office a few years later and say, "Jimmy cut all those players we traded him. He's taking all our draft picks for the foreseeable future".

[@mitchellsmith3098]

In this situation the Vikings ended up drafting a hall of famer instead.

[@lilteedakardiackid4695]

Thank you , still need a football life tho

[@gipstetz6720]

Bernie Bernie Bernie Bernie.....Was the best! Love Bernie. One of the greatest football....Qb minds out there. Go Browns!

[@jcdova29]

I am a Cowboys fan that liked Bernie. I was happy he got a ring.

[@rollotomassi4768]

Lifelong Cowboy fan who is from NE Ohio. Always rooted for Bernie and the Browns mainly because I always hated the Steelers, but Bernie was a smart gritty tough qb. I actually teared up when he through that td to Harper to seal the NFC Championship. It just felt like a huge redemption for Bernie.

[@omegaman9575]

Damn. How many teams have hired Ernie Acorsi as their GM and why is he always involved in draft controversies? He was the Baltimore Colts' GM when John Elway was selected but chose not to play for them and was the New York Giants' GM when Eli Manning refused to play for the San Diego Chargers.

[@edzaslow]

Kosar is a good guy. Unfortunately, he really got killed in the NFL. Concussions ruined his life. Hope he is doing better these days.

[@90sSportsNostalgia]

If I'm not mistaken, I think it was Kosar who called the fake spike that Marino executed vs the Jets.

[@DASCO2136]

You are correct. He originally called it in the 1986 AFC divisional playoff game (ironically against the Jets) in an attempt to take the lead with seconds left in the game. The passed was almost picked off in the end zone by Russell Carter. After that play, they went for the tying field goal which was converted and the Browns won the game. They played Denver in the championship game the following week. The rest is history.

[@danhellard400]

Bernie Kosar will always be my favorite QB

[@greensmithfootball10]

Picking Kosar was definitely the right choice for Accorsi to make even though Art Modell wanted the Browns to draft Flutie. That's another example of why ownership should just let the GM and coaches have autonomy over their teams because I don't believe the Browns would've gone to those AFC championship games without being lead by Kosar. Not to say that Flutie would've been a bust in Cleveland but I just don't think it would've worked because of how different his skill set was. But even if the Browns went to the Superbowl during the latter half of the 80's I don't think they would've won because the Giants and Redskins were both way better all around teams

[@TL2354]

If you think losing AFC title games is an accomplishment then you have low expectations

[@KWCline91]

@@TL2354as Dan Fouts once said, you play to win and play to get to a Super Bowl. If you don’t get there, you don’t get there. But, it doesn’t mean you’re a failure.

[@boscopappas234]

Kosar gets extra points for showing up with that fro and wearing that weird blue shirt.

[@thunter992]

That music is fire 🔥

[@DCUPtoejuice]

2019 is the year of the KOSAR

[@bullock4211]

That dart Marino threw to open up the video 🎯

[@r.williamcomm7693]

Mike Lynn was such an interesting & accomplished man. He overcame a lot as a child & was successful in everything he did. A truly great man. He lost out on Kosar & later the Hershel Walker trade but that was because of how Jimmy Johnson manipulated the picks with boilerplate in trade agreements.

[@mafia_dave32]

The 80's were like the wild west when it came to football . Always something crazy going on . I was a kid but still got to see the games in Cleveland ... If they sold out lol . My brother-in - law would find a way to pick up the games from Toledo when they didn't . I miss those days !!!

[@sandklown]

The way defences are today i wouldnt be shocked if marino hit 6k or 7k

[@zew1414]

Kosar's Jewfro always made me smile

[@mkeogh76]

He's a devout Roman Catholic of Hungarian descent.

[@Joseph-lz5er]

Then the Hungarianfro LOL.

[@okeybuckeye524]

Cleveland crucified Bellicheck for cutting Bernie.

[@TL2354]

They crucified who? Belichick cut him, don’t know who you’re talking about

[@okeybuckeye524]

@@TL2354 The fans…I was a high schooler in Dayton at the time and the Kosar Dallas jersey was the must have for Browns fans.

[@johnshanahan681]

Slinging it sidearm lol

[@dnasty312]

But sooo accurate 🎯 and intelligent

[@ericsigersmith6067]

@@dnasty312 backed up Marino right ?

[@KTF0]

Poor Mike Lynn. First getting fleeced with Kosar then the Herschel Walker trade.

[@AlejandroSanchez-pl6jw]

In other ways Ernie was playing a game of chess with the other gms. Awesome move

[@trentstokes7353]

Man Ernie accorsi has been involved with draft highly touted qbs

[@freshicecubes1466]

Good Vid!!

[@georgecharalambous8071]

They should do a football life documentary. NFL network make it happen

[@jefferyrobertson7520]

Bernie Kosar the best quarterback of Cleveland Browns from the University of Miami Youngstown Ohio native

[@711scotttrain]

Otto Graham

[@jefferyrobertson7520]

711scotttrain Bernie Kosar best head coach of Cleveland Browns Marty Schottenheimer before Bill Belichick became the worst head coach of the Cleveland Browns from 1991 to 1993 era 20 wins and 28 loss

[@matthewberg8031]

Hollywood/Netflix should do the Ernie Acorsi story or this story however it needs to get done. It's just a great story with Characters and history

[@alexthesniper1952]

Accorsi knew his QB's man I tell ya it's not often you draft two franchise quarterbacks for different ogranziations as GM's

[@j-fpilote1576]

not to mention to Manning-Rivers trade...

[@mikeschmidt4800]

I just found out that Gary Danielson actually played football.

[@carseye1219]

Gary was a very good QB for a long time, unfortunately playing for some bad Lions teams. He was beat up by the time he got to Cleveland. There are some people that insist he was one of the best high school qb's they'd ever seen.

[@neilgoldring4832]

I grew up in the 80's( born in '79) Kosar is the best QB Cleveland has had since the 80's! Easily. If they had a young Bernie Kosar at QB right now instead of Baker Mayfield they'd be in the playoffs! IMHO

[@nilevalleyrollin4247]

Brian Sipe?

[@daverichards9141]

Bernie is the Browns

[@jerryjanik480]

Hopefully the Browns have found their Bernie Kosar inBaker Mayfield and the bills have found their Jim Kelly in Josh Allen hopefully in the next couple years will see a Browns bills playoff game in Buffalo or Cleveland I know I'll have my ticket go Buffalo

[@cousinvinny63]

Good call! I-90 AFC Championship.

[@bullock4211]

Looks like Buffalo is going to the playoffs and have their future QB though he's far from polished and the Browns are back to doing Browns things

[@TL2354]

Hopefully they don’t. You want the Browns to lose AFC championship games? Wow

[@HarrariYT]

Top ten quarterbacks of all time, ranked: 1. Bernie Kosar 2-10 Who cares

[@ianstuart371]

This seems highly subjective

[@kvngirvng9475]

Like who cares about people like Brady, Brees, and, Rodgers

[@kvngirvng9475]

Im being fully sarcastic

[@ooammo632]

hes an idiot he "chose cleveland"

[@michaelstone3069]

It didn't help that Minnesota was know as being very tight with the 💰

[@StrivingTowardsWhatIsAhead]

Legend

[@JamesThomas-pj2lx]

My man, my qb!

[@fadedP]

Bernie, Bernie, Yeah! How you can throw, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

[@WithaNameLikeSwan]

They thought Bernie was the next Marino because they had the same hair and speed😅

[@jarvindriftwood]

Bernie Kosar was a true Ravens great. 😂

[@Raditram]

Jarvin Driftwood 😂😂😭😭

[@optimus2g]

Mike Lynn getting caught with his pants down...glad that didn't happen again.

[@dnasty312]

😆

[@spideredu89]

At least he won a Championship game, better than nothing

[@WoeIsLee]

YOUNGSTOWN REPRESENT

[@TL2354]

Represent what?

[@michaelmiller44820]

Great video, except for one thing: Bernie finished his career as a backup in Miami, not Dallas.

[@jhankline8963]

Im from nelson ohio. Bernie was our last great quarterback

[@craigpaulson3503]

And hopefully Baker Mayfield will be the next -Detroit Lions fan

[@ScumBagInFL]

@@craigpaulson3503 about that...

[@craigpaulson3503]

@@ScumBagInFL it can still happen.

[@davidviton1065]

Bernie was the last quarterback to give us a shot at the Super Bowl since then nothing

[@711scotttrain]

have you ever seen Bernie's daughter's highlight films ? she is scored on often &all over ...

[@bobwhite2]

It took all that for Cleveland to draft a top notch QB. In 60 years he’s the only one, save Sipe.

[@reedmathews]

Third best browns QB all time

[@mattthedestroyer2804]

Not saying much

[@ethanhopping7296]

Matt TheDestroyer 2 Otto Graham is top ten all time and Brian Sipe was a league MVP in 1980.

[@tonymoretti2347]

Right under Jonny Manziel and Tim Couch!

[@mkeogh76]

@@mattthedestroyer2804 The Browns have been around since 1946. In their original form, they had one of the highest winning percentages in NFL history because they consistently had great to good QBs: Otto Graham, Frank Ryan, Bill Nelsen, Brian Sipe, and Bernie Kosar. The Browns=joke reputation didn't start until after 1999 when they came back as an abysmally run and seemingly snake-bitten expansion franchise. However, Baker Mayfield and company are looking to change that perception of Browns being a laughingstock.

[@ethanhopping7296]

Harry Engel I actually agree with you that Kosar is better than Sipe but I think you’re underrating Sipe. Go back and watch some of his tape, he looks really ahead of his time. That 1980 team threw the ball a lot for a team in the 80s. He didn’t keep it up for a real long time, but he definitely deserved that MVP and definitely passes the eye test.

[@intsoccersuperstar1]

6:03 Bernie, I get that you were just coming out of the weight room, and I get that it was the middle of the ‘80s, and I get that it was Miami. But why, oh, why, did you wear that tank top to this press conference.

[@tmzebe530]

Dawg pound all day every day

[@AlejandroSanchez-pl6jw]

Marino was special

[@kylegoodreau2170]

CAUGHT IN THE DRAFT 1985 schemes and dreams

[@freeliberty647]

Cud players still pull this move? Just declare for the supplemental draft? Was hoping they would explain....

[@WoeIsLee]

Pretty sure it doesn't work this way anymore.

[@dmeads5663]

No, they reworked the rules.

[@Chris-ht1pv]

Can I pick the color

[@Jakemufcfan]

If Cleveland took Flutie they’d have won a Super Bowl

[@cyberhype5495]

😂😂😂😂 definitely NOT

[@r.williamcomm7693]

Yes & the Browns treated him so well for coming home. Belichick’s biggest mistake before benching Malcolm Butler.

[@TL2354]

How was cutting Bernie a mistake? Vinny got the Browns to the playoffs

[@r.williamcomm7693]

@@TL2354 I just saw your reply. Bekichick acknowledged later that the way in which he released Bernie Kosar angered fans & media so badly that he never overcame it so after the Browns had a rough season in 1995 preparing to move, Art Modell fired him. But you’re right, Testeverde & the 1994 Browns beat Parcell’s Patriots in the playoffs. I’m a big fan of Belichick. He said he used the lessons learned from Kosar when he kept Brady over Bledsoe. Also, to Belichick’s credit, Kosar was a backup the rest of his time in the NFL. He played well when he had to start for Aikman, but no team signed Kosar to be their starter. He has banged up.

[@chadbailey30]

Houston and Cleveland in same division? Is that what they said?. I so don't remember that

[@KWCline91]

Back in the 80’s, there were 26 teams, 3 divisions in each conference with two having 5 teams and one having four. The Houston Oilers and the Cleveland Browns were in the AFC Central division.

[@coachm4607]

Think about this. Bernie has a Super Bowl ring. Marino, Kelly, Moon do not. Let that sink in.

[@NJGuy1973]

The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

[@michaelstone3069]

The real story is who made ernie aware of that rule

[@bigdawgbrownsnation6895]

Art Modell Still Sucks

[@ggates5371]

Bernie wasn’t amazing, but he showed up when it counted. He also rarely threw interceptions.

[@donhill1825]

Including college and NFL, is there a more snake-bitten QB than Kosar?

[@KWCline91]

He won a national championship at Miami. He won a Super Bowl with Dallas. He actually played a vital role in getting Dallas to the NFC title game. But in a way, he’s had tough luck.

[@JamesSmith-vk2ky]

Jeffrey Dahmer with a beard at 06:34. 🤔😨

[@Bootschnickens]

James Smith I see it

[@WoeIsLee]

Somebodies been watching too many documentaries.

[@slyfoxxsr.941]

700 years later, the Cleveland Browns are still looking for a franchise QB.

[@gammawave1739]

the browns use to be a contender, now every season is a losing season for them. Worst teams in the leauge: Browns, Dolphins, Jaguars, bills, and the jets. Also pretty bad: bengals steelers cardinals lions and the bears. Pretty much a quarter of the league is garbage

[@shldnfr]

Kosar was from Boardman OH, not Youngstown.

[@DASCO2136]

Boardman is a suburb of Youngstown

[@nilevalleyrollin4247]

Boardman's home-town is Youngstown. Get your facts straight!

[@Chris-ht1pv]

Basic and pretty

[@creepystares9853]

we just couldn't dress in the 80's

[@ddiesel1836]

right Kosar could have taken the Browns to 2 Superbowls; and he'd loose them both

[@SillyLooBird]

Bernie > LeBron

[@Joseph-lz5er]

Had Browns made it to the Super Bowl in 86, they would have lost to the Giants anyway lol. Giants were lot more superior team in 86, especially defensively. I think the outcome would have been similar had it been either the Browns or the Broncos.

[@MrJLov13]

What about in 87, do you think that Browns team that was just a fumble away from reaching the Super Bowl could have hung with that Redskins offense and Doug Williams.

[@kellyferreter]

@@MrJLov13 , I do.

[@TL2354]

@@MrJLov13 The Broncos couldn’t and they beat the Browns