Trent Dilfer threatened to retire rather than return to the Browns in 2006, despite inking a handsome four-year contract the year prior. The thought of subbing for Charlie Frye while enduring another year of Mo Carthon was just too much. Understandable, but watching his failed tenure in Cleveland unfold, I lost a lot of my […]
I have asked the Arizona Cardinals to change their website’s bio of Maurice Carthon, their running backs coach. An excerpt of my email to them: In two places, it states that Carthon spent the past two seasons as offensive coordinator of the Browns. In fact, Carthon resigned his position on or about October 23, 2006, […]
North Olmstead native Brian Hoyer, now the starting QB for Michigan State, was quoted in the Lansing State Journal (found via the OBR Newswire and Yahoo Sports) as disavowing his Browns fandom because they drafted Brady Quinn. “I can’t root for them anymore, ever since they drafted that guy from South Bend… He lives in […]
Fascinating if unsurprising example of how the Browns’ web site reflects a rapid response PR war room mentality: Let’s start with some reportage from the Canton Repository’s Steve Doerschuk on Tuesday: Tight end Steve Heiden, a co-captain who came to the team in 2001, let out the most provocative player observation of the Monday after. […]
In the wake of the Mike Vick episode, the NFL is kicking off a new series of image ads showing the human side of its players, “to do everything necessary to protect the strength of our brand.” Touching sentiment, no? So which team’s players do they feature on literally half of these 30-second, black-and-white spots? […]
Ouch, that’s gotta hurt. No, it’s not another patellar tear or staph infection, so don’t go “woe is me” already. It’s the latest Fan Satisfaction Rankings, and the Browns plummeted. In this “ranking that combines the fan perspective with an objective measure of how well teams turn fan dollars into wins,” they placed 116th out […]
Why did the Winslow non-story got so much play last week? It was the perfect storm: Timing. Free agency signings tapered off, while the draft is still over a month away. Something needed to fill in the gap. Media motivation. PFT is run by a Steelers fan, of all things, so he doubtless gets his […]
Like many longtime Browns loyalists, I sense that something’s seriously amiss. It’s not just the horrendous win/loss records, though that’s certainly a big part of it. It’s that the fans, in various ways, are not treated with respect. The Browns organization regards its fan base as important, sure, but more as a passionate, irrational horde […]
Here is a post I wrote two years ago about the whole issue of rooting for your team to lose in order to secure a higher draft position. Sorry that circumstances are prompting me to steer it to your attention again.
Wow, it’s been well over a week and I’ve had nothing at all to post here — the longest in-season gap in this blog’s four-year history. The reasons are several, but since no one has asked, I won’t bore you with the full litany. Suffice it to say that, while my passion for the Browns […]
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