Scott Petrak - chroniclet.com -

Browns players returning from a three-day weekend Monday were faced with the reality of a new set of goals for the remaining seven weeks of the season.
At 3-6 and three games behind AFC North leaders Pittsburgh and Baltimore, the playoffs are, at best, a long shot. But that doesn’t mean the final stretch is meaningless.
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Steve Doerschuk - cantonrep.com - Nov. 11, 2008

It must have been another universe. It seems eons ago.

It was here in Ohio. It was less than a year after the Bengals almost stunned the 49ers in Super Bowl XXIII.

The Browns were on their way to a division championship.

It was Dec. 10, 1989, and Bengals Head Coach Sam Wyche detected his crowd getting rowdy after he charged onto the Riverfront Stadium field to protest a call that favored Seattle.

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