How do you spell Browns? P.U.

  • September 30, 2009
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I was asked the other day why I’ve stopped picking on the Browns. The honest answer was it takes so little effort, I like to find a bit more of a challenge when I write. But the stench emanating from that carcass they call a team makes one wonder just who is responsible for this mess. I don’t know who is more screwed up, the loyal fans who pour out their hard-earned dollars or the (mis)management of the team. When the Browns were re-born in 1999, they had the good fortune of having an owner with deep pockets. Al Lerner cut absolutely no corners when he built the new Browns Stadium and he paid way too much money for guys like Dwight Clark and other former San Francisco 49ers front office personnel to come to Cleveland and try and have the same luck Eddie Debartolo had bringing championships to the bay. Unfortunately, Bill Walsh, who was the genius behind San Francisco’s run to the top, is no longer with us, and they just don’t make players like Joe Montana, Steve Young or Jerry Rice any more. When San Francisco Midwestern style failed, the Browns tried to go the route of the University of Miami, where Butch Davis made his mark as a great coach. Davis had little luck inspiring overpaid professionals to play the way they did with his fire and brimstone speeches that were so effective in college and he crashed and burned, leaving his job halfway through another subpar season. The Browns then tried to steal the thunder from a former coach from another era, Bill Belichick, the man who made the New England Patriots the envy of the league. Phil Savage and Romeo Crennel, New England castoffs who came to Cleveland with the hope of bringing some of that New England magic brought nothing but murder and mayhem. Current coach Eric Mangini is a another former New England staffer via the New York Jets, who is strapped with the same useless pile of players Crennel was cradled with during his brief tenure in Cleveland. He did bring several members of the flightless Jets along with him, but they stunk in New York and they still stink in Cleveland. The players appear to already have quit on the coach. This could be the longest season in the history of professional sports for Browns fans.


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