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The Red Right 88 game was a divisional playoff game played as part of the 1980–81 NFL playoffs, which would crown the NFL champion for the 1980 season.Under the playoff structure in place at the time, five teams from each of the NFL's two conferences – the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC) – would qualify for the playoffs.
The play called was Red Right 88, which was intended for Dave Logan. However, Ozzie Newsome managed to get clear in the Raiders endzone and Sipe fired the ball to him — but the wind managed to interfere with the plan and heartbreak was the outcome for the frozen 77,655 Cleveland faithful: the ball was intercepted by Oakland cornerback Mike Davis.
Then Mike Pruitt ran the ball 14 yards to the Raiders 14-yard line. Pruitt gained another yard on the next play, and the team called a timeout from the 13 with 49 seconds left. Browns coach Sam Rutigliano called for a pass play, Red Right 88, instructing Sipe that if no one was open "throw it to the blond in the first row". His intention was to ...
The one best known as "Red Right 88." The game-time temperature of 4 degrees Fahrenheit made it the coldest NFL game to that point since the 1967 "Ice Bowl" game between the Dallas Cowboys and ...
Davis is best known for making a key interception at the end of the 1980 AFC Conference playoff game with the Cleveland Browns, in a play known as Red Right 88. Leading 14-12 late in the fourth quarter, after the Raiders recovered a Brian Sipe fumble deep in the Browns' territory, the Raiders turned over the ball on the 15 yard line after ...
Red Right 88: January 4, 1981 Oakland Raiders: 14–12 Cleveland Browns: 1980–81 NFL playoff game play where an interception of a "Red Slot Right, Halfback Stay, 88," pass play in the end zone by Raiders safety Mike Davis, despite the Browns being in range of a field goal, put an end to the Browns' season. [107] [108] [109] The Catch: January ...
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Trip after trip to the red zone Sunday, and the Las Vegas Raiders — with one exception — couldn't reach the end zone. Las Vegas, which visits the Chicago Bears on Sunday, is in a stretch of ...