More table scraps, dawgs. Here are the pitiful rushing totals for the new era of Browns football (1999-present). Rank Browns Player Pos. Rush Yards 1 William Green RB 2109 2 Jamel White RB 1324 3 Reuben Droughns RB 1232 4 James Jackson RB 1071 5 Lee Suggs RB 1048 6 Tim Couch QB 556 7 […]
Ever had food poisoning? Each wave of nausea is painfully distasteful, yet it somehow brings you closer to having purged yourself of the worst that ails you. Well, that’s why I’m bringing you a series of tables, the Browns’ combined statistical leaders in various categories since their rebirth in 1999. I haven’t seen them compiled […]
We all know about the horrible fate of Browns’ first-round picks in the new era. But no less accursed is the fate of players who have actually been productive. Each year since 2001, the Cleveland chapter of the Pro Football Writers Association has identified a Player of the Year. Every single time, the honoree has […]
Just five times in Browns history has the team’s record improved by at least four games from one season to the next. (I wrote about this in the December ’05 issue of Bernie’s Insiders Magazine.) There are very few commonalities among those various ascendant seasons. The main one is this: 1957 — Primary quarterback: Tommy […]
Here is my attempt to distract you from Reuben Droughns’ latest misjudgment. Sadly though, the diversion doesn’t even take us out of Colorado. It’s one of the most odd coincidences in Browns history, even more unlikely, perhaps, than the season finales of 2003 and 2004. The Browns and the Broncos have met 23 times, 20 […]
No doubt that the NFL is a fantastic spectacle, the most entertaining sports league in the world, to my eyes. But in terms of providing an optimal forum for competition, it has two serious flaws. One is injuries. They can and do have an outsized impact on a game, season, and even a franchise’s overall […]
Sad to hear that Bernie Kosar’s wife has filed for divorce. The issues, as reported by the Miami Herald, include what Babette apparently feels is Bernie’s undue generosity in giving away marital assets. It’s a character trait and a marital concern that was foreshadowed as far back as 1992 in, oddly enough, a football card. […]
The drafting of rookie RB Jerome Harrison in the fifth round by Phil Savage is further evidence of the saner hirer mojo now at work in Cleveland. Of course, it’s too early to say that bringing “The Ghost” lakeside represents a major hero risen. After all, a back his size hardly rehonors Jim era Browns […]
Coming soon, from the young sportswriter who wrote the book (which I’m reading now and am very impressed with) on the Kardiac Kids, it’s Sundays in the Pound: The Heroics And Heartbreak of the 1985-89 Cleveland Browns. I’ve been thinking for months it was inevitable that a book on this bittersweet era would be written. […]
[Note: I wrote this piece a few months ago for another purpose, but now it occurs to me that I’d better let it see the light of day before it’s even more dated.] “At the right time and the right place, they’re capable of anything” — Chinatown, 1974 For more than one Browns fan, watching […]
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