Quote:Yep. I haven't forgotten about "bottle-gate."


For those too young to remember:

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2014/12/bottlegate_oral_history_cleveland_browns.html'>http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2014/12/bottlegate_oral_history_cleveland_browns.html</a>

 

Bottle Game, not Bottle-gate. There was no scandal resulting in severe punishment like Spygate and Bountygate. The end result was several teams requiring plastic cups and banning fourth quarter beer sales.

 

A former supervisor who grew up in northeast Ohio told me he hates the Jaguars because they were the opponent in that game and would have thrown a bottle of beer if he was in the Dawg Pound. He was one of my favorite supervisors all-time, but of course I hated hearing that. Fortunately I did not hear any other Browns fans say the same thing, but would be surprised if no one agrees with him.

 

I read in The Columbus Dispatch 13 bottle throwers were arrested for disorderly conduct. Why only 13? There were literally hundreds oif beer bottles littering the end zone. There were no reports of future arrests.

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