Halloween: 5 of the scariest Cleveland Browns since 1999
By Chad Porto
Phil Dawson
It’s really unbelievable but if you’re an opposing team, the last thing you’d ever want to see during his time with Cleveland was No. 4. Phil Dawson was a legend for the simple fact that he was able to do his job in easily the worst stadium in the NFL for kicking. As if he were a warlock, Dawson knew how to play against the elements in a stadium that have taken the very best the league had to offer and removed a piece of their confidence.
Not Dawson, however. If the Cleveland Browns stadium in the winter was a dragon, then Dawson was the dragon slayer. Whether it was hitting the field goal post for a game-winning kick, or being able to defy the sheer force of the wind alone, Dawson made kicking among the most exciting times a game could have.
Dawson was someone who could not be stopped, not if he didn’t want to be and the thing that made him most dangerous, he was timeless. Dawson kicked for a long time, longer than most people thought possible and even though he left Cleveland, he still possessed that dragon-slaying ability, no matter what stadium he was playing in on that given Sunday.