Part of what made the Monday Night Football classic between the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns such an extraordinary sports event is that a classic game ended with a bad beat.

This is a game which had everything. It was immense fun. It had a Russian novel's lavish plot points and soaring dramas. It had absurdist components, such as Lamar Jackson leaving for two drives, then watching his backup get injured, then completing a fourth-down touchdown pass.

There were missed extra points, 2-point conversions caught off deflections, bad interceptions, daring scrambles, a 15-men-on-the-field penalty missed in real time by the referees… and that was just a partial sampling of what happened on an unforgettable night in Cleveland.

Yet, this extraordinary game — won by Justin Tucker crushing a 55-yard field goal with two seconds left for the Ravens — then had a punctuation mark which generated more anger and shock than the previous 59 minutes and 58 seconds combined.

Yes, after the Ravens won the game with two seconds left, the last play of the game swung a lot of money from some wallets to others across the United States.

The Browns used a lateral play — their only chance at a touchdown — but lateraled the ball into their own end zone. Jarvis Landry was shoved out of the back of the end zone by the Ravens for a safety.

The final score wasn't 45-42; it was 47-42 for the Ravens.

The betting line at kickoff time: Baltimore minus three points. Yup. The baddest bad beat of this NFL season.

Twitter exploded, as you could well imagine it would: 

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The Ravens might have been a 3.5-point favorite at some point during the past week at some outlets. It's bad enough to have a push turn into a loss. It would be far worse if you had a Browns +3.5 ticket.

Thoughts and prayers… but the Ravens won't care. They, and anyone with a Baltimore -3 ticket, made out like bandits on Monday, in a classic game with an unforgettable ending AFTER the winning kick.