12 Days of a Cleveland Browns Christmas

Both the Pruitts' moves...

The 1980 Cleveland Browns (nicknamed at the time "the Kardiac Kids") won their first division title in nine years. Making the playoffs that year was a big enough deal to produce a record that got a great deal of local airplay. Since the NFL playoffs happened mostly in December back in those days, a Christmas theme was chosen. What we got was the 12 Days of a Cleveland Browns Christmas by Elliott, Walter and Bennett.

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Hear a short clip (MP3).

For your reference -- or if you want to sing along -- here are the 12 things that Art Modell gave to me:

• The Browns in the playoffs
• Dave Logan leaping
• Doug Dieken blocking
• DeLeone a-hiking
• Kardiac Kids a-winning
• Darden intercepting
• Newsome a-catching
• both the Pruitts' moves
• Alzado attacking
• Brian Sipe a-passing
• Don Cockroft kicking
• on a Rutigliano Super Bowl Team

You can listen to the whole thing -- as well as watch the record spin around -- on YouTube. (No, that video isn't mine.)