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Conditions made the contest unique for Browns

Cleveland Browns
12/17/2007 9:18 AM
The Dayton Daily News reports at game time, sustained winds howled out of the northwest at 32 miles per hour. "And it's snowing," the Cleveland Browns' press box announcer felt the need to add. Blizzarding was more like it. "It wasn't brutally cold, so that helped," Cleveland Browns head coach Romeo Crennel said after Sunday's important victory over the Buffalo Bills had been achieved by the unusual score of 8-0. Their sixth straight home win, ninth overall, kept the Browns on a playoff course with two games remaining. They did not clinch a postseason berth because Tennessee, their closest wild-card pursuer, beat Kansas City 26-17, but they virtually eliminated the Bills and pulled into a first-place tie with Pittsburgh in the AFC North when the Steelers lost 29-22 to Jacksonville. The win also guaranteed the Browns their first winning season since 2002, when they went 9-7 and last made the playoffs. Read more