A unique addition to the Browns bibliography is out now. And I don’t mean out injured. The opposite, really: available. It’s a fun keepsake bio of Baker Mayfield himself. Baker Mayfield: Feeling Dangerous is unofficial, unaffiliated photo and feature journalism writ nice and large, considering its 24-year old star subject. The full 8 1/2-by-11-inch glossy […]
Fewer than 50 hours ’til kickoff into a rollicking stadium of our own fall colors. The essential energies of autumn and winter vibrate with brown, orange, and white. Brown, rooted earth, fixing trees that reveal more branches as each wind blows. We get that here. This year there’s such a rush for the Browns, such […]
It’s summer now. Hot dawg days, long but subtly diminishing. Time for vacations, for roaming far afield, maybe setting up camp. Well, our Browns have settled on theirs, dispelling murmurs of Central Ohio interest, and reportedly re-committing to Berea through 2039. The team’s HQ and training facility will stay in the city-owned site. And with […]
In this year of OK (Our Kosar), 2019, the most hopefully-anointed Browns franchise quarterback since Boy Bernie from Boardman is today’s darlin’ Baker Mayfield. Dorsey’s signature decision, and Harvey’s hero already, the OK gunslinger stands ready to chipperly shoulder Cleveland’s football expectations. And, really, those expectations! Those collective hopes for football deliverance — a burden bulkier […]
Old Dawg Trey Davis braved the ghost of past fracture and teetered down the basement staircase of his all-too-distant relative. “Ace, you down here?” he called to his nephew, as if he’d be able to hear a response anyway. But a dim lit bulb drew him downward, then the hint of what sounded like “Uuunnnnkkkk” […]
“Hard Knocks” 2018 Browns debut, 10 p.m. HBO. It’ll be fun to see how the series highlights the Browns, their fan base, and various plot lines. It will be nice to see a wider audience exposed to the Browns, offering a market share opportunity rarer in this atomized age of inattention. It’s not like the […]
Browns have done plenty of drafting in recent years. Now they’ve been drafted. The NFL has put Berea in the spotlight for the HBO series Hard Knocks. The reality show focuses on one team’s storylines during training camp. Coaches don’t generally welcome the potential distraction from preparing for the coming season. So when no franchise […]
So many moves, so much change, so how best to cast myself back into the blogging of the beleaguered Browns? With a personal note, I guess. So much news and so many views have already been tweeted and podcast by a whole ecosystem of characters large and small. My voice seems tinny and distant, but […]
A mere 381 days ago, I announced that this was officially the worst Browns team ever and the worst time to be a Browns fan other than “The Move.” In the meantime, the team has won exactly one football game. They would somehow have to win another one just to be good enough for Coach […]
Got a hunch or a hope who the Browns will soon draft? Go on the record to win a signed copy of my paperback, Brown for the Count: A Compendium of Cleveland Browns Lists, straight to your mailbox. Just use this form to name up to 11 players you think the Browns will select at some point […]
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