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CLEVELAND, OH (WEWS) — The Browns won Thursday night – but was it Baker Mayfield’s 201 yards and the team’s two touchdowns, or was it all thanks to #RallyPossum?
An opossum was first spotted loose in Section 101 at about 7:30 p.m. Minutes later, with hands as deft as Jarvis Landry’s, a fan sporting a number 99 jersey grabbed the waylaid marsupial by its tail and placed it gingerly in a box. It, apparently, was a sign of the victory to come.
The Browns won the game, but the possum may have won the internet Thursday night. The tweet from @BustedCoverage with the possum capture on video had over 1.7 million views as of Friday morning, and the responses were amazing:
By Friday morning, Rally Possum even had its own t-shirt, because of course it does.
Was it a cursed possum lurking in the stadium for the last two years, and capturing him finally lifted the curse?
Was the possum actually a genie that granted Browns fans’ wishes upon its capture?
Was it just a funny thing that happened? We may never know.
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