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Steve Flacco watched as his son, quarterback Joe Flacco, guided the Cleveland Browns to an impressive 37-20 win over the New York Jets on Thursday night that clinched a playoff spot for the team.
Steve then surprised Joe as the two celebrated the victory.
“My dad just said, ‘I think it’s the happiest I’ve ever seen you on a football field,'” Joe Flacco told Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports. “That’s literally what he just said to me. It’s definitely been a few years.”
What’s interesting about that comment is Joe Flacco is a Baltimore Ravens icon who earned Super Bowl XLVII Most Valuable Player honors and played in three AFC Championship games with that organization. Steve’s take says plenty about what going from an unsigned television personality in waiting to a Cleveland sports hero via four consecutive victories means to the veteran quarterback who may soon become the betting favorite to win the Comeback Player of the Year Award over Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin.
Per Jason Lloyd of The Athletic, Joe Flacco passed for 296 yards and three touchdowns in the first half against the Jets. Flacco’s performances over his last four starts have individuals such as Charles McDonald of Yahoo! Sports believing the 11-5 Browns could do more than just appear in a Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history this coming February.
According to Jones, Flacco and future Hall of Famer Tom Brady are now the only players aged 38 or older in NFL history to pass for over 300 yards across four consecutive games.
“I’ve known I wanted to play,” Flacco told Jones. “So I want to continue to play until I can’t play. And until people don’t let me. And I thought that may have been this year but obviously it hasn’t been. So I’ve been fortunate. I’m going to keep my eye on the prize and take it week by week, but I love this.”
Flacco and his family members will hope his happiest moment with the Browns is still to come.
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