I’m very grateful to have had the chance to take my dad and son to last Sunday’s crucial win over the dreaded Ravens. It was a memorable experience made possible through the generosity of the Browns, the extraordinary Southeast Michigan Browns Backers and its members, and my folks, who won the tickets at the Browns Backers’ […]
Quite a news day in Berea, with dual shockers. First, Chud named third-stringer Brian Hoyer as Sunday’s starting QB, as the local kid leapfrogs Jason Campbell to replace injured Brandon Weeden. Hoyer, like Chud, is a Jesuit-educated longtime Browns fan. Of course, that’s not the reason for his elevation from inactive to first-string. It’s that […]
Make sure you read this Grantland piece. Although it’s not what the writer came for, he does offer an entertaining first-person account of the way the new Browns operate. It’s worth it for the character descriptions alone: CEO Joe Banner: “a little more sarcastic than necessary. But you can just tell he’s hypercompetent.” GM Mike […]
I didn’t expect that my lifelong allegiance to the Cleveland Browns would suddenly, in one day’s time, vibrate at an entirely new emotional frequency. I’ve lived, felt, and shared all the hopes, heartbreaks, inspirations, and frustrations of decades under the peculiar pull of this football franchise. I still fantasize how my inner life might transform […]
Starting LB Chris Gocong’s season-ending and career-threatening Achilles injury is the latest example of one of the NFL’s primary defects: the outsized role of injuries. The human toll in pain and disability is the primary consideration, and of course my sympathies lie with Gocong for impact the torn right Achilles tendon will have on his […]
Incoming Browns owner Jimmy Haslan III took center stage yesterday. The affable, self-assured presence of the truck stop magnate in itself signaled a culture change for the Browns. I’m posting my takeaways here, not because many folks are reading this (the revival of a long-languid blog is no overnight blossom), but to get my initial […]
Sudden death overtime was a great idea for its time. The invention of former commissioner Bert Bell (who, incidentally, suffered his own sudden death at the first game he attended following the epic 1958 NFL championship) added excitement to the sport by reducing the all-too-common kiss-your-sister anticlimax of two teams slugging it out for 60 […]
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.
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