Reed's record-breaking, 106-yard interception return dooms Browns

BALTIMORE (AP) -- The play will be recorded in the record book as the longest interception return in NFL history, a 106-yard sprint by Ed Reed that sealed a harrowing victory for the Baltimore Ravens.
Aaron Shea will forever remember it as pass interference.
With the Cleveland Browns driving for the tying score, Reed picked off Jeff Garcia's pass in the end zone and went the distance in the other direction to secure a 27-13 victory Sunday night.
Reed intercepted a pass that went off Shea, whose attempt to catch the ball was impeded by Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis. As Reed made his way down the right sideline, Shea yelled at a nearby official, pleading for a call that never came.
"When you're touched before the ball gets there, it makes it a little tougher to catch," Shea said. "I think the guy was there early."
The Browns were done
Reed reached the end zone with 26 seconds remaining, and the Browns (3-5) were done.
"It's a blessing, definitely a miracle if you knew what happened the whole play, with Ray telling me to be where I got the ball," Reed said.
"I knew exactly the play they were going to try to run," Lewis said. "I told Ed it was coming."
Jamal Lewis scored the decisive touchdown with 7:03 remaining following a 7-yard punt, and Reed made the score stand up in a game in which the Ravens (5-3) yielded a 93-yard kickoff return but came back on the strength of their special teams.
Back from a two-game suspension for violating the NFL substance abuse policy, Lewis ran for 81 yards on 22 carries. But his 2-yard burst into the end zone was set up by two outstanding plays by Baltimore's special units.
Sams makes diving save
First, rookie B.J. Sams made a diving save in the end zone to enable Baltimore to down a punt at the Cleveland 1. Then, after the defense yielded only 1 yard on three plays, the Ravens pressured Derrick Frost into a wobbly kick that made the touchdown drive easy.
"I was trying to get it off quick. I saw the guy coming up the middle," Frost said. "It's all about timing. I knew it was going to be bad, but not that bad."
A two-point conversion gave Baltimore a 20-13 lead, but the victory was not assured until Reed intercepted the deflected pass.
"[Reed] seems to always be around it when you need it," Baltimore coach Brian Billick said. "He kind of waited to the end to do it. Might have saved my heart a little bit if he'd have done it earlier."
As Garcia deftly moved the Browns down-field, Billick was already thinking the worst.
"It was just a matter of whether they could go for two," he said.
Stover kicks 4 FGs
Matt Stover kicked four field goals for the Ravens, who wore black uniforms for the first time.
"The defense time and time again stepped up to the challenge. We put it on the 5-yard line and they still somehow got it done," Stover said.
Richard Alston stunned the Ravens and the crowd of 69,781 by putting Baltimore in a 7-0 hole with 14 seconds elapsed. He shook off an attempted tackle by Chad Williams, then deked kicker Wade Richey around midfield before veering right and sprinting down the sideline into the end zone.
It was the first time the Browns scored on the opening kickoff since September 1990, when Eric Metcalf went the distance against the New York Jets. Alston was activated off the practice squad to replace Andre King, who sprained his left ankle against Philadelphia before Cleveland's bye last week.
The Ravens came back to take a 12-10 lead, but the Browns moved 72 yards in 13 plays before Phil Dawson kicked a 29-yard field goal to make it 13-12 with 14:14 remaining. The drive was extended by a pass interference call against Gary Baxter on third-and-10 and aided by a 21-yard scramble by Garcia, who went 4-for-5 during the march.