Sadly, former Cleveland Browns arch-rival Sam Wyche passed away, evoking memories of coach Paul Brown's return to football with the AFL expansion team Cincinnati Bengals in 1968. Wyche was a charter member of that team, and later became a coach and led them to a Super Bowl following the 1988 season. The team's website says that Wyche's passing was due to melanoma.
Sam is remembered well for an incident that happened in the 1989 season against the Seattle Seahawks in December. Some calls did not go Cincinnati's way and the fans were irked and perhaps a little bored and so they started throwing snowballs onto the field.