Being a Browns fan these days means awaiting the next, previously-unthinkable new way for a team to meet defeat. Yesterday’s worthy contribution to this panoply of pathos: blowing a three-touchdown lead to a 1-8 team and allowing a rookie QB to throw for five TDs and 422 yards, the third most ever allowed by the […]
Guess I was too superstitious to post this earlier, but over the past two weeks the thought came to mind distressingly often. What else could go wrong? The Browns were already 1-7. A national laughingstock. An organizational Superfund site. A national storyline spun off the idiotic idea of a silly, self-aggrandizing fan (boosted by an […]
Further documenting the woeful whirlwind of Browns football over the last decade, I hereby challenge you with my third Browns-related quiz. Name the 19 men who have led our offensive, defensive, and special teams units since the franchise’s resurrection. Go ahead, you know you wanna feel like a winner, someway, somehow. You can do it […]
Now that both of the Browns’ leading tacklers, inside linebackers D’Qwell Jackson and Eric Barton, are shelved for the season, the active roster stands at 52, leaving one available job, even after this week’s promotion of rookie LB Marcus Bernard from the practice squad and signing of veteran LB Josh Stamer as a street free […]
Via PFR, we find that Derek Anderson had the worst statistical performance of any NFL quarterback in the first half of any of the past 34 seasons. Not since 1975, when the Browns’ own Mike Phipps began the year tossing 10 interceptions with nary a touchdown, has the league witnessed poorer play at its premier […]
Yesterday’s NFL margins of victory/defeat: 0-9 points: 4 games 10-19 points: 3 games 20-29 points: 5 games 30+ points: 0 games. Slim chance of seeing a game that gets decided late between two equally-matched teams, but this is actually an improvement over last week. For most teams, anyway. As for the Browns, amateur hour continues. […]
In the face of network blackouts and fan “brownout” demonstrations, I have a specific suggestion for Randy Lerner during this most disheartening time. Read the full piece here. So here’s my far-fetched but heartfelt proposal to the Browns brass: give me victory or give me … um, a coupon. Ridiculous? Maybe, but we’re beyond that […]
Yesterday’s NFL margins of victory/defeat: 0-9 points: 2 games 10-19 points: 4 games 20-29 points: 2 games 30+ points: 4 games. Average score of a 2009 Browns game:Cleveland 10, Anyone Else 26 Average NFL ticket price: $75.
Nice ESPN Page 2 special here. All joking aside, I love the Browns. They cause me near-constant frustration and heartache, but that’s the price you pay when you become attached to a pro sports team to which you have only an imaginary philosophical connection. I won’t bail and support another team just because mine sucks, […]
You’d think that after driving 11 hours round-trip and investing a weekend and $200 or so to witness the Browns win their first game in 11 months, a blogger like me would have something to say about the experience. Well, I just might. But first, another Sporcle quiz. If you’ve got 10 minutes, test your […]
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