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Cleveland Browns: NFL Greatest Games

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This is a rare collection for Browns fans. DVDs of Browns games are few and far between at best, so it's best to grab one when they come around. This is a great set of games.

A 3-DVD set, each contains one game in its entirety. They are:

DVD #1: 1980 Browns vs. Packers,10/19/80.
Dave Logan catches an amazing 46-yard touchdown pass to give the Cardiac Kids a win over the Green Bay Cheeseheads.

DVD #2: 1989 Browns vs. Steelers, 9/10/89.
The Browns destroy the Steelers 50 - 0 on Opening Day.

DVD #3: 2002 Browns vs. Falcons, 12/29/02.
William Green helps the Browns smack the Falcons 24 - 16, putting the Browns in the playoffs.

Brian Sipe is the quarterback on the first DVD, Bernie Kosar in the second.

If you've got a Browns fan in your house, this is the gift for them.

i just got this set, and I love it! It's always great to see vintage NFL broadcasts, even of your rivals. I'm giving this to my father as a Christmas present (we collect Steeler games from the years they made the playoffs, regardless of score), and I'm sure he'll enjoy the gift, if not the result. (For those who may not know, the Browns crushed the Steelers 51-0 in the game featured here). Still, a worthwhile edition to any football fan's video library.

The greatest Browns games came well before the three included in this package. The Browns haven't even smelled a championship since 1964 when they beat the Colts for the NFL title--before the Super Bowl was invented. In the early days of the franchise, the Browns were dominant, year after year. I'd much prefer to see games from that period.

If the truly greatest games were imcluded, we'd see Jim Brown, Otto Graham, Milt Plum, Gary Collins, Marion Motley, Bobby Mitchell, Lou Groza, Mac Speedie, Horace Gillam et al., not the relatively meaningless games in seasons that were scarcely memorable. This is not to say that the games here are not interesting, but "greatest?" I don't think so.

This is a good 3 dvd set however on the dvd the Atlanta Falcons game and the Pittsburgh Steelers game are on the wrong described dvd, so when you watch the Atlanta Falcons game your really watching the Steelers game and vice versa. However these games are the actual NFL games straight off the TV the day they were aired with commentary and no commercials.
Very cool.

I was excited to receive my Browns DVD collection today. Unfortunately the packaging was all messed up. The sleeves did not represent the discs in inside them (no big problem there, I just switched the sleeves), however, the disc labeled for the Steelers v Browns game on my set is actually the Browns v Falcons game (and vice-versa). Still great to have these games archived on DVD, but the quality control on these is bad. Just want to know if this happened on others or just mine before I complain to Warner Brothers.

This is a warning as much as a review. The 3rd disc in this set is NOT the 2002 Browns vs Falcons game, it is another copy of the route against the Steelers 1989. It is labeled as the 2002 Falcons game but that's not what's recorded on the dvd. So, you get 2 games on 3 discs. Aside from that, if you do not have games in the old Browns Municipal Stadium and the Steelers Three Rivers Stadium, you may like this set. They are definitely nostalgia packed, for me, as I grew up with these older stadiums having seen them on TV sometimes every week during high school (1976-80). I don't even mind seeing Pittsburgh getting routed, just love to see Three Rivers again. But, I digress. The NFL is now releasing full-edit games for us to see, which are edited badly in some cases, and the quality control is obviously not good considering the botched 3rd disc in this set. The Falcons 2002 game is part of the reason I bought the set (the rest was to see the old stadiums again). The game footage is a little squibbly also in the Browns/Packers game 1980, the VHS was probably bad, but it gets better as it runs. Not the greatest effort by the NFL. I will try to return it and see if the Falcons game was included in later released sets (I doubt it). Not sure if its worth the $$ or not. Good Luck.
UPDATE TO THE ABOVE REVIEW: I sent back the set in hopes of getting the Falcons game, which would have made the set worth buying, and I actually got the entire set of three games on three discs! So, if you get a bad set and do want this full set, try again at least once. Also, at least screen each disc to be sure you got all three games. My 2nd Steelers 1989 game was labeled Falcons 2002. It sounds like there are various configurations of mistakes in the production of this set, so I think I got lucky on the first return (how would Amazon know if they are sending me a complete new set or not?). I considered trying twice, if need be. Good Luck.

I bought this for my husband and my father, they loved it. My husband was so excited he could barely speak. He watched it as soon as I gave it to him. Any Browns fan will love this!!

I must admit I was a little disappointed with the selection of games for this set - but of course it's hard to know what was available. Unfortunately I have never seen any other Browns' titles available to buy so I guess you have to get what you can.

The quality is ok, but not great (the Pittsburgh game is probably the worst) but in truth I wouldn't describe these as the Browns' 'greatest games'. Greatest games doesn't necessarily mean you won them and my own personal choices would be the 2 heatbreaking losses to Denver in the AFC Championship games and the double overtime playoff game against the Jets. Nevertheless, it was great to see some of the old players appearing on my screen again, particularly people such as Bernie Kosar, Frank Minnifield, Webster Slaughter, Eric Metcalf and many others.

It's a shame though that the NFL haven't producd a history of the Browns as they've done with many other NFL teams - I guess that might be because we are still searching for that elusive superbowl win.

The game with the Pittsburg Steelers is missing. It was the Atlanta Falcons game on this disc instead. Do not buy until someone fixes the problem!!!!

This was horrible I got this for my husband and how disapointing!! It is supposed to be a Cleveland Browns 3 clasic game dvd set. It is supposed to contain 3 different dvd's with a different game on each dvd. Well, 2 of the dvd's have the same game on them. My husband was so mad because the game He was soooo wanting to see was labled right but when he put it in the dvd player and pushed play the game from the last one he had just watched was on it.