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Charles Curtis

A meaningless, last-second Browns defensive TD was an all-timer of a horrifying bad beat for NFL bettors

Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

If you’re waking up Friday morning feeling awful that some of your bets on the Cleveland Browns from Thursday’s win over the Pittsburgh Steelers didn’t cash, I totally feel for you after an all-timer of a bad beat went down.

Here’s what went down: The Cleveland Browns were up 23-17 with nine seconds to go. The Steelers were backed up to their own four-yard line and decided to try one of those hook-and-lateral plays.

But the ball got loose by the end zone … and Denzel Ward jumped on for the touchdown at the final whistle.

Suddenly, it was 29-17. And there were so many bad beats that came out of it:

Here's the play

Al Michaels knew!

So many bettors crushed

You had people in DFS losing out on cash. You had people who had the under locked at under 40.5 points … and so much more:

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