Hue Jackson surfaced from the chilly water soaked and smiling before he raised both arms in triumph.

Cleveland’s coach hasn’t had many moments to celebrate during two miserable seasons with the Browns Martinas Rankin Jersey Texans , so this felt like a victory over the dreaded Steelers.

A very wet, wonderful win.

Jackson took a dive into Lake Erie on Friday , delivering on a promise with a dip he hopes can help cleanse the bumbling Browns, who have gone 1-31 in two seasons with Jackson in charge.

Clad in a T-shirt and shorts, Jackson jogged into the surf holding his wife Michelle’s hand before submerging himself. He popped up, pulled up his sagging swim trunks – but not before his backside was exposed – and then splashed along with owner Dee Haslam and more than 150 team employees who turned out to support him and raise money for his charity.

”No more freakin’ losing,” Jackson hollered. ”Let’s go!”

Jackson’s plunge had been in the works for months. After the Browns went 1-15 in his first season, Jackson vowed that if the team finished that poorly again, he would jump into one of the Great Lakes. And when Cleveland staggered to a 0-16 record last season, becoming only the second team in NFL history to lose all 16 games, Jackson had no choice but to stick to his words.

”This is not something I do every day, but I made a statement, and I have to back it up,” Jackson said. ”I came here two years ago to win, and I’m going to win here. I truly believe that. But I think when you make statements Youth Derrick Nnadi Jersey , you’ve got to stand by them.”

With a TV news helicopter hovering over Huntington Beach, and an NFL Films crew recording his every move on land and sea, Jackson spent several minutes in the unusually warm 72-degree water.

After returning to shore, Jackson expressed relief to have it behind him.

This was a chance to wash off the filth from two painful, forgettable seasons.

”It feels good that it’s over with,” Jackson said. ”It’s over and done with. The page is turned, and you can see it’s not just me, it’s our organization. They are the reason why I do what I do, and our players and our fans. I know our fans have been very disappointed. I get it. But that page is closed. Hopefully they’ll give us a chance to earn back their respect, their trust, their affection for our football team and this city, because we plan on doing something special.”

Before he headed into the water, Jackson became emotional while speaking to the team’s employees. He pledged to donate $100 for every Browns co-worker who joined him, and Dee and Jimmy Haslam matched him, raising $30 Breeland Speaks Jersey Chiefs ,000 for his foundation which raises awareness and fights human trafficking.

Jackson was fortunate to keep his job following two seasons, but Dee Haslam said the team remains confident he’ll get the Browns turned around.

”Hue’s a great coach, a great leader of men,” she said. ”The last couple years have been terrible for us and been really terrible for our fans. We take that responsibility and feel horrible about it because Northeast Ohio and the fans of the Cleveland Browns deserve so much more.”

As he prepares for his third season, Jackson said his days of making predictions are over.

”I’m not making any more guarantees,” he said. ”I’m not making any more promises.”

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BOSTON — On the verge of their first playoff series win in four years, the Boston Bruins may or not have star and leader Patrice Bergeron back for Game 5 of their first-round series with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night.

The Leafs, facing elimination as they seek their first series win since 2004 (and the Original Six franchise’s first Stanley Cup since 1967), know they will get one of their best players back Saturday as Nazem Kadri returns from a three-game suspension for a hit in Game 1.

But will it help?

The Bruins, playing without late-scratch Bergeron (upper body), took a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series with a 3-1 victory over Toronto on Thursday. They need one win to advance as Bergeron’s status remained unclear Friday.

The team canceled practice, but Bergeron was on the ice at the team’s practice facility with a handful of players early and no decision was announced about Saturday. He has not been ruled out and coach Bruce Cassidy called it “a positive” that Bergeron was skating.

Riley Nash slid into Bergeron’s spot on the top line and played a strong game, helping set up the first goal of the game just 28 seconds after faceoff.

Kadri, who charged Tommy Wingels while Wingels was on his knees against the boards, cost his team dearly when the NHL hit him with the suspension — thus costing the Leafs a 32-goal scorer and one of their best two-way players.

Now he’s back.

“Obviously Los Angeles Chargers Jerseys Womens , he’s a good player,” Leafs coach Mike Babcock said Friday. “It’s unfortunate for him that he missed three games, but the way I look at it on our team is you’ve got to be able to pick each other up. We weren’t able to do that.

“He comes back, he’ll make us deeper and we’re excited to have him back. Plus, he’ll have good energy for us. It’s important to have that going into Boston.”

Kadri, who was “disappointed” at the punishment, said, “It’s exciting to get back in. I’ve been champing at the bit the last couple of games here and it’s been hard to watch knowing that you could be out there trying to help and trying to make an impact. I’m happy the time is come.”

The Bruins won the first two games of the series at home, then lost Game 3 in Toronto before riding goaltender Tuukka Rask to Thursday night’s road win.

“Tuukka was our savior tonight,” said Bruins rookie Jake DeBrusk, who made it 3-1 with a third-period goal.

Rask made 31 saves in the victory.

“Tonight we needed him to dig and be very good. And he was,” said Cassidy, whose team stumbled down the stretch to lose out to the Tampa Bay Lightning in the battle for the top spot in both the Atlantic Division and Eastern Conference before getting off to a strong playoff start.

Brad Marchand, who scored the winning goal, said http://www.ravensauthorizedshops.com/authentic-anthony-averett-jersey , “(Rask) played a phenomenal game. He’s one of the best goalies in the world and he gives us an opportunity to win every night. He made a lot of big saves early on to give us a chance to get back in the game. We really need to give him a lot of credit for tonight.”

The Leafs know what they’re up against, needing three straight wins to upset the higher seed — and Babcock says the attitude is good.

“We talked about that here today,” he said. “The bottom line is — I don’t know how many of you saw this, but last night out there in Maple Leaf Square, they put that on TV. I talked about the national anthem the other day and then last night. To me, if you’re these players and you’ve seen that, you want to see it again.

“The only way we get to see it again is we’ve got to win to play. We’ve got to dig in. We’ve got to compete harder, we’ve got to play better. I thought we did tons of good things last night, we didn’t give up very much, we made a couple of mistakes on a couple of two-on-ones and they didn’t go our way. Dig in and make it go your way. I think you’ve got to enjoy part of the duress of this time of year. Embrace it.”

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