There was plenty to be amazed by in the first half of an absolute Wild Card shootout between the Houston Texans and Cleveland Browns. Cleveland came out firing with big connections to David Njoku and Kareem Hunt, the latter of which helped stake the Browns to a pair of early leads with touchdowns on back-to-back drives.
Houston volleyed back with Nico Collins, CJ Stroud and an epic catch-and-run from tight end Brevin Jordan. Yet despite all this, the one thing that dominated conversation Saturday afternoon for a quick minute wasn’t how weird trying to explain a high-scoring Browns-Texans playoff game would be to someone time traveling from 2013 or even March 2023.
It was Desmond King, tackling a sliding Joe Flacco (another tough one for the time travelers) and then, momentum unfurled, putting together an involuntary breakdancing seminar on the quarterback’s back.
the coolest way to tackle a sliding quarterback the world has ever seen pic.twitter.com/CvaH4bvT2r
— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) January 13, 2024
That’s at least 1.5 full revolutions on top of an unwilling participant. And it led to, depending on your frame of reference, a bunch of Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo or Booker T (of Harlem Heat fame) jokes.