On this edition of #BPA, Jim Donovan sits down with Browns legend Doug Dieken to reflect on his 50 year career with the Browns both as a player and in the radio booth.
Thank you for making this tribute available! Doug has an unmistakable voice that is warm and chewy. Many salutes to Mr. Dieken and thank you for the memories!
Doug and Jim were great together and that combo will be missed. Doug is a very special person.
I attended the Red-Right 88 playoff game vs the Raiders in January 1981. The first game played in the old yard in January. Like Doug said, at least the players could run around and move. Looking back, we were all crazy to even be outside that day, let alone for 3hours watching a football game on Cleveland’s lakefront. Back then when the Browns played in December you would make sure you had at least a little alcohol in your body before the game started so you could deal with being cold at the stadium, but THAT day it didn’t make any difference how oiled you were. I remember being practically frozen before the game even started. How those men played that day, I for one, will never forget. Coach Flores practically won the football game on the coin toss because he elected to force the Browns to the bleacher end of the field for the second and fourth quarters. Sam was out couched from the onset of the game. Had the Browns offense been moving to the closed end of the Stadium in that final drive, there is a very good possibility Cockroft makes a game winning field down there. I remember Paul McDonald, from the state of California, a rookie then and Don Cockroft’s holder, wearing scuba gloves on the field to try and catch placements. He botched every hold that day because he was too cold to take those goddamned gloves off to hold for kicks. Nobody says this, but McDonald cost us that football game, it never should have come down to Red Right 88. Mad love to Doug and thanks for being a Cleveland Brown. Blessings to Doug and his family. All Praises to The Most High.
When the wind caught Sipe’s pass and it was intercepted, like Doug said, you could hear a pin drop it was so quiet, for about 5 to 8 seconds. Then all of a sudden there was a course of 80,000 people cursing at once. It will never forget that. 3 hours in that brutal cold, and for it to end like that just brought out everyone’s best cursing tirades. You had to be there.
First year I became a fan 😂 I never dreamed how much cursing lay ahead of me
Great to put faces to the voices I listen to every Monday morning here in China!
Thanks for this Podcast! I enjoy them all, but this one was hands down on of the best!
I remember seeing Doug at BJ’S wholesale club, Heck’s restaurant and Ironwood Cafe. Always sociable and would come over and talk with my friends and I. Good luck Doug, anytime you’re ready to golf, get in touch and I’ll take you out.
55:00 thank you for sharing that story
Best Browns podcast of the year!
Doug was a great man really is a true gentleman
So sad fifty years and not one super bowlðŸ˜
Gonna be missed
Doug Dieken was the best. I met him one time at a Browns throwback dinner. A very nice and friendly guy. He was a great player and was very natural and one of the best at his job as a broadcaster.