… Dungy, that is: You don’t care about the Browns. I know that. You’re a former Steeler, after all. You had a job to do last night, and that was to protect your best players from getting hurt and missing their next game two weeks forward. Fine. The players you sent out there did try. […]
Way back in college freshman English, writing on a passage from Walden, I drew what I thought was an uncanny analogy with something from my personal experience, a probable arson fire that destroyed a tennis club I had frequented. The prof, a campus legend of intimidating brilliance, was befuddled by what must have been an […]
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 […]
Here is my contrarian post of the month: I am a little bit sad to see Dennis Northcutt go. Is it because he was a great wide receiver? No. Because he still has untapped potential? No. Because he deserved to be a lifelong Brown? No. The answer is simply this: ‘Cutt was the most exciting […]
[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 […]
Rich Passan has knowingly ignited a fiery fan frenzy on the boards by opining that the Browns should not exist. I’m oversimplifying, but that’s what it comes down to. You ought to read the full piece yourself, because it’s a mighty strange thesis. He doesn’t mention the other Browns, another five-decade franchise that moved to […]
I don’t spend much time scouting college football players, so I’d be the last to claim status as a draft guru. But I do have some credentials: Last year a Browns beat reporter wrote “who needs Kiper when you have Ace Davis?” If only PHD had followed my advice in 2004! The way the first […]
Root to lose? Really? More than a few Browns fans think that’s what we ought to do. After all, maybe we’ll get a higher draft position, and that will result in better players and better times in the long run. Wrong answer! Go ahead and act on your own definition of fandom or your tortured […]
Football season is our consolation gift for summer’s end. Lazy, open-air passions of the hot season gently simmer down with crisper winds, crunchier leaves, and more measured days. Football times this transition like nothing else. Players padded in every direction align in formation, the vanguard against the harshest unknown. As we civilians hunker down in […]
President Bush greeted him with “Hola! Como estas?” Found common ground with W on the drunk driving issue. Bush just pointed out, “Hey, there’s that major league a******” from the Plain Dealer Buoyed by assurance of additional tax relief on his signing bonus. Bush promised a constitutional amendment to ban anything but shotgun snaps Amused […]
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