If I had one Ohio high school football game to see in person this season, it would have been Lakewood St. Edward hosting Colorado powerhouse Cherry Creek on Saturday.

That’s because Creek is coached by the great Dave Logan, my all-time favorite Browns player.

And Logan, a wide receiver from the Kardiac Kids era, has a special tie to my all-time favorite guy, my late father.

It was almost 43 years ago, on Oct. 7, 1979, that the Browns hosted the archrival Pittsburgh Steelers at Cleveland Stadium. My dad and I usually attended Pittsburgh’s annual visit to Cleveland, but that year, for whatever reason, we did not go. We stayed at home in suburban Akron and watched it on TV.

It was in the second half when, during a furious Browns comeback after falling way behind early, that quarterback Brian Sipe lofted a short pass into the back left corner of the end zone for Logan. He reached out and pulled the ball in in front of cornerback Mel Blount for a touchdown.

My dad suddenly set up in his Barcalounger and said, “He caught that ball with one hand!”

I know we watched the rest of the Browns games that year – we watched all the games together, either at the Stadium or on TV, every season — but that’s the last clear thought I have of us doing that. My dad died 11 months after that game.

So, when I think back to us doing that all those years, it’s that game – and that catch – on which I immediately focus.

My dad and I were very close. He was a big Browns guy from the team’s very start in 1946,, so, in wanting to be just like him, I was a big Browns guy, too. I still am, more than four decades later.

Logan had great hands – among the best set of hands ever for the Browns.

I’d like to shake his hand for providing me this special forever memory

And I would have done it had I been at Saturday’s game.

Steve King

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