This is where the story gets good.

Oh, yeah, this is where the story gets really good.

A longtime friend of mine took his then girlfriend, who later became his wife, to the game we’ve been focused on throughout this series: Browns-Green Bay Packers on Oct. 19, 1980 at Cleveland Stadium.

The way he tells the story, they were sitting in then named bleachers — in the middle section, section 50, up near the top of the section so as to be able to see the entire field and have depth perception — and they watched the Browns, moving toward that end of the stadium, come to the line of scrimmage on third down-and-20 from the Green Bay 46 with 25 seconds left in the fourth quarter and the Packers clinging to a 21-20 lead.

“Hey, look! Look!” my friend said to his girlfriend.

“Look at what?” she asked.

“Not at what, but at who. Look at (Browns quarterback Brian) Sipe! He’s going to (wide receiver Dave) Logan! I’m telling you, he’s going to Logan!”

She had been oh, so anxious to go to a Browns game with him. But it was almost 4 o’clock and they had been there since just after noon. He liked to get there early. He could’ve spent the rest of the day there, but she was all footballed-out. She was ready to head for the car.

“OK, if Sipe goes to Logan, then can we go home?”

“Yes, I promise you, if Sipe goes to Logan, then we can go home.”

What was going on? Why was my friend so sure that Sipe was going to Logan?

Steve King