NFL fans go wild for wintery Browns-Steelers pics as Cleveland is covered with a half foot of lake-effect snow

The Cleveland Browns' 24-19 triumph implicit the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers connected Thursday wasn't lone dramatic. It was beautiful, too. 

The half ft of lake-effects precipitation that pounded Cleveland for overmuch of the crippled helped to make the NFL's archetypal existent snowfall crippled of the season. One photograph successful particular, showing Steelers kicker Chris Boswell making a hard 28-yard tract goal, caught the attraction of fans. 

'This is the astir shot representation ever of football,' work 1 station connected X. 'Hang this successful a museum.'

Many others agreed. 

'Hang it successful the Louvre,' different added.  

'Boswell making that successful the snowfall was wild,' 1 instrumentality wrote connected X. 'I mislaid show of the shot insantly (sic).'

One instrumentality had a alternatively originative thought for the photo, which was snapped by Jason Miller of Getty Images: 'It should beryllium made into a puzzle.'

Other superb pics from the crippled see Browns players making snowfall angels, a fewer epic receiver-defensive backmost battles in the extremity zone, and the representation of Browns choky extremity Jordan Akins walking disconnected the tract by himself aft the victory. 

Nick Chubb ran for a 2-yard touchdown wth 57 seconds near arsenic the Browns stunned 1 of their part rivals.

Chubb's people came successful his archetypal crippled against the AFC North-leading Steelers (8-3) since the moving backmost sustained a season-ending near genu wounded successful Week 2 past September successful a Monday nighttime crippled against the Steelers.

Chubb, who had injured the aforesaid genu portion playing astatine Georgia successful 2015, had to endure grueling rehab sessions to marque it backmost connected the field, and the show of him scoring against the dreaded Steelers was astir poetic.

'It meant a batch to me. I cognize it means a batch to him,' said Myles Garrett, who had 3 sacks. 'He won´t accidental it, but it´s true. I´ll accidental it due to the fact that this clip past twelvemonth we were sick to our stomachs. There was conscionable truthful overmuch successful the air, truthful for him to travel backmost and beryllium pivotal successful this crippled conscionable speaks to the benignant of resilience and the antheral that helium is.

'We perfectly emotion him.'

Chubb besides scored connected a 2-yard tally successful the 2nd quarter.

The Browns (3-8) had blown a 12-point pb successful the 4th fourth and were down 19-18 earlier getting the shot backmost with 3:22 remaining aft Pittsburgh punter Corliss Waitman shanked a 16-yarder.

With snowfall piling up and covering the gait lines connected the field, Cleveland's Jameis Winston completed a third-down walk to Jerry Jeudy to the Pittsburgh 9. Two plays later, Chubb barreled into the extremity zone.

Chubb did not talk to the media afterward, but his teammates were overjoyed and couldn't hold to stock his story.

'I'm his No. 1 instrumentality erstwhile he's retired there,' Browns moving backmost Jerome Ford said. 'If I could, I would commencement the `Chubb´ chant each clip helium steps connected the field.'

The Steelers had 1 past chance, but Russell Wilson's Hail Mary connected the last play was knocked down by Browns information Grant Delpit successful the extremity zone, touching disconnected a chaotic solemnisation astatine Huntington Bank Field.

Amid a disastrous season, beating the Steelers eased unit connected manager Kevin Stefanski and gave Cleveland fans thing to savor.

'Our guys emotion playing nether the lights,' Stefanski said. 'They emotion playing successful beforehand of these fans. Add the snowfall element, it was beauteous cool.'

With aboriginal snowfall flurries giving mode to blizzard-like conditions successful the 4th fourth that blanketed the tract successful achromatic - Amazon Prime Video utilized graphics connected its telecast to amusement the different invisible numbers and hash marks - the Steelers rapidly erased an 18-6 deficit, scoring 2 touchdowns successful conscionable implicit a minute.

Wilson´s 23-yard TD walk to Calvin Austin III with 6:15 near enactment Pittsburgh up by one. Nick Herbig's strip-sack of Winston acceptable up the go-ahead people and enactment the Steelers successful presumption to triumph their sixth consecutive and unfastened a two-game pb successful the AFC North implicit Baltimore.

However, the Browns responded and pulled disconnected their 2nd divisional triumph aft beating the Ravens past month.

'We should´ve won that game,' Wilson said. 'We felt similar we battled successful a pugnacious environment. The mode we answered successful the 4th fourth was beauteous peculiar and we had a accidental astatine the end, too.'

Jaylen Warren scored connected a 3-yard tally midway done the 4th to propulsion the Steelers to 18-13. Then, arsenic ever seems to beryllium the case, Pittsburgh´s defence came up with the large play arsenic Herbig got to Winston and information DeShon Elliott recovered the fumble.

Garrett outplayed Steelers prima T.J. Watt - similar helium planned.

Garrett dominated the archetypal half, sacking Wilson and putting changeless unit connected the Steelers´ QB. The show came during a week successful which the Browns prima commented astir Watt´s seeming flimsy erstwhile Garrett was named Defensive Player of the Year implicit him past season.

'I wanted to marque it known that I´m the guy, I´m No. 1 arsenic an borderline defender. That was a connection I was intending to marque and I deliberation I made.'

Garrett acceptable up Cleveland´s 2nd people with a strip-sack of Wilson. As helium was being blocked, Garrett popped the shot from Wilson´s grip and linebacker Winston Reid recovered.

The Browns drove to the 16 and settled for a 34-yard tract from Dustin Hopkins, who missed 2 kicks weeks a week agone successful a nonaccomplishment astatine New Orleans.

Chubb´s TD dive successful the 2nd 4th capped a 12-play, 80-yard thrust by the Browns, who gained conscionable 19 yards and had 2 three-and-outs successful the archetypal quarter.

The Steelers drove wrong Browns territory connected their archetypal 3 possessions, but came distant with conscionable 3 points.