Good read for the new Fans - a recent primer on the Browns
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Good read. Lets jump agree to disagree on what ever players. This does seem like its going to be a fun year as a Browns fan though. Do not buy into the media hype on Manziel and what he has done or on Haslam and if he made the Browns draft him. At the end of the Day, we drafted 6 very talented players for once this year. Probably one of the best drafts we have had in awhile. I mean, for once I didnt go wtf is going on here. We addresed extreme needs and upgraded the talent on the roster. Please just enjoy what we have going on right now and not what coulda should been. I hope you all have a kick ass weekend. Go Browns!
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Come on mik, give it a break
Gotta admit, it's pretty annoying for people to call themselves Browns just because we drafted JM. I welcome them here but don't call yourself a Browns fan if all you care about is JM.
"I said, 'I need someone who's going to want to get on the roller coaster with me knowing that it's not always going to be fun,'" -Paul DePodesta -
I lived in San Diego for 4 years and saw true fair weather fans. Chargers fans may be the worst fair weather fans I know. Welcome, all the new fans... for the sake of a loyal fan base, call yourself what you are. If you're a Browns fan, then let it be. If you're a Johnny fan who roots for the Browns, then identify as such and let it be. Understand that a Browns fan doesn't change football teams when thing suck...and I don't mean suck as in a few years in a row, but suck as in nearly every season.
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If JFF feels welcomed here you will not find a more loyal player. Texas A&M is the real home of the 12th man, not those Seattle posers that have to pay our school to rent that trademark. The Dogpound is well known to us, even down in Texas and it is certainly more fanatical that any pro football group out there. Where we come from we call that "Good Bull".
To say we are not yet Browns fans is fair enough. But you can bet we will do whatever small part we can to make our player succeed, And to do that his team has to succeed.
That is the reason I put some info on OL Cedric Ogbuehi up on the this board, to call attention early to a very real possibility of another player with a lot of experience blocking for the Browns' recent addition from A&M. And with it the new SI listing of the top players for next year which has him listed as #1.
I really don't care if you don't call me a Browns fan. But don't ever call me your enemy, because that part isn't true.
Thanks for the introductory information on the Browns. We do share this in common from the article above: "But what do they always say in Cleveland? Just wait ātil next year."
That is an old Aggie saying I was introduced to my freshman year at A&M. So it's also decades old for us too. Johnny Fucking Football cured that in two short seasons.
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I lived in San Diego for 4 years and saw true fair weather fans. Chargers fans may be the worst fair weather fans I know. Welcome, all the new fans... for the sake of a loyal fan base, call yourself what you are. If you're a Browns fan, then let it be. If you're a Johnny fan who roots for the Browns, then identify as such and let it be. Understand that a Browns fan doesn't change football teams when thing suck...and I don't mean suck as in a few years in a row, but suck as in nearly every season.
Thanks to the OP for the thread. Scotty F is one of my fav recent Browns. I still say had he not been injured in the Jet game...
@walterwhite said:
I'M NOT APOLOGIZING FOR ACTUALLY BEING FUCKING EXCITED FOR 2014
No one has and no one will ask you to apologize.
Don't ask us to apologize for not being giddy, lil' schoolgirls.
Fair enough?
I lived in San Diego for 4 years and saw true fair weather fans.
Navy guy? My daughter was stationed there for 3 and said the weather was always fair. My three, week-long visits failed to produce any evidence to the contrary.
Also failed to produce any evidence that the "green flash" is a real thing...
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If JFF feels welcomed here you will not find a more loyal player. Texas A&M is the real home of the 12th man, not those Seattle posers that have to pay our school to rent that trademark. The Dogpound is well known to us, even down in Texas and it is certainly more fanatical that any pro football group out there. Where we come from we call that "Good Bull".
To say we are not yet Browns fans is fair enough. But you can bet we will do whatever small part we can to make our player succeed, And to do that his team has to succeed.
That is the reason I put some info on OL Cedric Ogbuehi up on the this board, to call attention early to a very real possibility of another player with a lot of experience blocking for the Browns' recent addition from A&M. And with it the new SI listing of the top players for next year which has him listed as #1.
I really don't care if you don't call me a Browns fan. But don't ever call me your enemy, because that part isn't true.
Thanks for the introductory information on the Browns. We do share this in common from the article above: "But what do they always say in Cleveland? Just wait ātil next year."
That is an old Aggie saying I was introduced to my freshman year at A&M. So it's also decades old for us too. Johnny Fucking Football cured that in two short seasons.
You've got a good way of looking all this and I agree that you're not the enemy. I don't think I've said it thus far, and don't plan to. I have some secondary teams I root for, mainly because of individual players (fantasy football had a lot to do with it lol), and and I make it known if asked that I'm just here for one guy, the team just gets my support by association. I think the best thing for the Browns would be for Johnny to play his career here. I would imagine some of the true football fans that followed him here would slowly turn into loyal life-long Browns fans. That's a win-win situation. Either way, hope you enjoy the ride.If JFF feels welcomed here you will not find a more loyal player. Texas A&M is the real home of the 12th man, not those Seattle posers that have to pay our school to rent that trademark. The Dogpound is well known to us, even down in Texas and it is certainly more fanatical that any pro football group out there. Where we come from we call that "Good Bull".
To say we are not yet Browns fans is fair enough. But you can bet we will do whatever small part we can to make our player succeed, And to do that his team has to succeed.
That is the reason I put some info on OL Cedric Ogbuehi up on the this board, to call attention early to a very real possibility of another player with a lot of experience blocking for the Browns' recent addition from A&M. And with it the new SI listing of the top players for next year which has him listed as #1.
I really don't care if you don't call me a Browns fan. But don't ever call me your enemy, because that part isn't true.
Thanks for the introductory information on the Browns. We do share this in common from the article above: "But what do they always say in Cleveland? Just wait til next year."
That is an old Aggie saying I was introduced to my freshman year at A&M. So it's also decades old for us too. Johnny Fucking Football cured that in two short seasons.
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If JFF feels welcomed here you will not find a more loyal player. Texas A&M is the real home of the 12th man, not those Seattle posers that have to pay our school to rent that trademark. The Dogpound is well known to us, even down in Texas and it is certainly more fanatical that any pro football group out there. Where we come from we call that "Good Bull".
To say we are not yet Browns fans is fair enough. But you can bet we will do whatever small part we can to make our player succeed, And to do that his team has to succeed.
That is the reason I put some info on OL Cedric Ogbuehi up on the this board, to call attention early to a very real possibility of another player with a lot of experience blocking for the Browns' recent addition from A&M. And with it the new SI listing of the top players for next year which has him listed as #1.
I really don't care if you don't call me a Browns fan. But don't ever call me your enemy, because that part isn't true.
Thanks for the introductory information on the Browns. We do share this in common from the article above: "But what do they always say in Cleveland? Just wait ātil next year."
That is an old Aggie saying I was introduced to my freshman year at A&M. So it's also decades old for us too. Johnny Fucking Football cured that in two short seasons.
If JFF feels welcomed here you will not find a more loyal player. Texas A&M is the real home of the 12th man, not those Seattle posers that have to pay our school to rent that trademark.
1. I wondered about Seattle's use of the "12th man"... now I know.
2. Your opening sentence is more than tad disconcerting...
3. I, for one, have enjoyed your posts so far.
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Thanks to the OP for the thread. Scotty F is one of my fav recent Browns. I still say had he not been injured in the Jet game...
@walterwhite said:
I'M NOT APOLOGIZING FOR ACTUALLY BEING FUCKING EXCITED FOR 2014
No one has and no one will ask you to apologize.
Don't ask us to apologize for not being giddy, lil' schoolgirls.
Fair enough?
I lived in San Diego for 4 years and saw true fair weather fans.
Navy guy? My daughter was stationed there for 3 and said the weather was always fair. My three, week-long visits failed to produce any evidence to the contrary.
Also failed to produce any evidence that the "green flash" is a real thing...
USMC. The weather was great. May have rained less than 15 times in 4 years and shorts could be worn with a ling sleeve shirt most of the winter. I was out there 06'-10' and we had fires once, like they have going now. Lots of our guys had to evacuate there home and could see the fire in the distance, from base. We had the privilege of running fire buckets, dropping water from our helicopters. Was pretty wild. Overall, AWESOME place.Navy guy? My daughter was stationed there for 3 and said the weather was always fair. My three, week-long visits failed to produce any evidence to the contrary.
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Gotta admit, it's pretty annoying for people to call themselves Browns just because we drafted JM. I welcome them here but don't call yourself a Browns fan if all you care about is JM.
I'm sure if the JFF gig doesn't quite pan out that some of these new fans will leave, but as mentioned by others, some will get attached to Players/Coaches/Identity/etc. and will stay on board.
Maybe some of these new folks have just followed College FB and really didn't have an NFL Team . . . now maybe they do (or will).
I mean, we all had to start somewhere.
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My hope is that JFF stays with Cleveland for his entire career, so these new fans have no reason to leave and have every reason to stay Browns
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My hope is that JFF stays with Cleveland for his entire career, so these new fans have no reason to leave and have every reason to stay Browns
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This is a pretty good read on the Browns by Scott Fujita :
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/simply-put-i-was-sucked-back-in-by-the-draft-051314
Simply put, I was sucked back in by the draft
This past week, I think I became a football fan again.
Typically, as the NFL Draft approaches, I find myself trading barbs via social media with football fans and followers, quipping about the draft being Americaās quintessential tribute to Communism. This usually doesnāt sit well with many die-hard football patriots, who accuse me of blasphemy or of being downright un-American. But occasionally, by the end of our chat, a few folks reluctantly accept the āComradeā title Iāve bestowed upon them and see that itās actually the draft thatās rather un-American.
My closing argument might look something like this, in the form of a hypothetical workplace scenario I create for my Twitter opponent(s):
@sfujita55: Hey @SupaBowlWarDawg99, you are one of the absolute best in the world at what you do. And to reward you, weāre sending you to ______ (insert perceived hellhole geographic location or perennial dysfunctional organization). Congratulations! And weāre also going to cap your earning potential. And restrict you from going anywhere else as long as we possibly can. And if you underperform on the assembly line youāll likely be discarded. And if we fail to provide a competent regime and workplace environment for you and your fellow comrades, too f--king bad. Welcome to the USSR...um, I mean, the NFL.
āBut itās okay Comrade,ā Iād joke, āI went to Berkeley, so you and I are in the same bloc!ā
Obviously I was just having a good time with ā@SupaBowlWarDawg99ā and other like-minded football fanatics. Trolling, if you will.
But for years, I think a big part of me actually did resent the draft. Political ideology and my flair for the dramatic aside, I probably just resented the idea that so much time and effort (and dollars) were being allocated in an attempt to find someone better than me, and to replace many of my friends and teammates. So perhaps I lashed out at the intrinsically capitalistic, dog-eat-dog nature of the draft, by pointing out some of its more socialistic tendencies. Cognitive dissonance defined, kids.
But this yearās draft was different. My typical Berkeleyan rabble-rousing was replaced by rah-rahās and fist pumps.
And it pains me to admit that I actually contributed to the TV ratings by tuning in from time to time to watch NFL Draft coverage. Yes, I sold out! Hypocrisy at its finest.
The reason for my sudden change of heart? The Cleveland Browns
The ups and downs of the Cleveland Browns
Iām now about 18 months removed from playing the game, and naturally, Iāve continued to follow the sport. Especially the teams I feel most connected to: the Saints, Chiefs and Browns. I pull for my friends, hope they play well and win a lot of games, stay healthy, get big contracts, etc. But I donāt know if Iāve considered myself an actual fan.
I remember when Browns Head Coach Pat Shurmur informed us on the opening day of training camp in 2012 that team owner Randy Lerner had just sold the club. I thought to myself: Thereās a whole bunch of dead men walking around here, and everyone knows it. This season might get pretty dismal. But I hadnāt thought much about how Browns fans viewed this transaction.
And when a local beat writer Iād become friendly with after joining the Browns in 2010 gave me a copy of Scott Hulerās On Being Brown: What it Means to Be a Cleveland Browns Fan, I read it and thought yeah, yeah, yeah ... every fan thinks theyāre more dedicated than every other fan.
But after a year and a half of following the Browns from the outside, Iāve begun to see the roller coaster ride that all Browns fans have experienced over the past few decades. Up and down. Up and down. Up and down.
With new owner Jimmy Haslam sounding staunchly committed to creating long-term stability, you couldnāt help but think the perpetual dysfunction and organizational overhauls that had plagued the Browns for so long had ended. But then reports of an FBI/IRS probe regarding Haslamās family business sounded awfully messy, creating a new sense of uncertainty around the team. This issue remains unresolved.
Scrappy quarterback Brian Hoyer comes off the bench and leads the upstart Browns to three consecutive wins during the 2013 season. When was the last time you saw that happen in Cleveland? But then he suffers a season-ending injury and the Browns lose 10 of their last 11 games.
When Browns team brass decided to trade running back Trent Richardson just a year after making him their top pick in the 2012 draft, I defended the move as a commitment to getting things right by loading up for future drafts. This was a courageous and forward-thinking decision, I argued, with an eye on stability. But just a few short months later, Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski was fired after less than a year on the job. Back to square one.
An exhaustive coaching search to find the right man to āstabilize this organizationā turned into a weeks-long train-wreck, as it appeared the Browns head coaching gig was a job no one would touch. Iāve never seen so many head coaching candidates declare publicly that they were removing their names from consideration for whatās typically a highly coveted job.
General Manager Mike Lombardi and CEO Joe Banner, the visionaries behind the Trent Richardson trade and the assumed architects of stability, got fired in February of this year. This happened just over a month after Chudzinskiās dismissal, and also right after new head coach Mike Pettine was hired. The timing here left everyone scratching their heads.
Each of these organizational facelifts are the kinds of things that may happen to a club every 5-10 years, if ever. But these all took place during the period of time Iāve been following the Browns as a non-player -- in just the last 18 months. Can you imagine going through 20, 30, 40 years of this? A lot of Browns fans can.
But what do they always say in Cleveland? Just wait ātil next year. Itās gonna be our year.
#Believeland
What transpired in Cleveland on Day 1 of this yearās draft was nothing short of exhilarating. I hadnāt been this fired up or engrossed in the draft since Dick Vermeil called my Berkeley apartment to tell me I was the 143rd pick of the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2002 NFL Draft. Or perhaps since the L.A. Rams took Eric Dickerson with the second pick of the 1983 NFL Draft. Let the record reflect that if my folks would have let me wear a jheri curl, I would have.
But that first round by the Browns seemed straight out of Kevin Costnerās Draft Day (a movie I of course refuse to see because I donāt support films about Communism). I was getting text updates from friends and colleagues about trades down and trades up, and about how new Browns GM Ray Farmer was in total command during his first draft at the helm.
That was when I actually turned on the television to follow the draft coverage in real time! And I was sucked right in. And thatās when I saw the Cleveland Browns make the move to draft former Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel.
This was a move to get excited about. This was the pick that was going to change everything. I might travel out for a few (non-winter) home games in Cleveland this year! I may even reach out to Johnny Football to see if he wants to rent my condo in Crocker Park. Perhaps I could crash at his/my place when visiting, with dibs on his/my sofa. I mean, why not? I like to party.
Then I caught myself.
Who is this person fist-pumping in front of the TV on NFL Draft day?
Was I actually that conflicted when linebacker (and friend) DāQwell Jackson and the Browns parted ways this offseason?
Why did I feel relieved when the Browns matched Alex Mack's contract offer sheet from the Jacksonville Jaguars?
And had I really been so affected by every little up-and-down on that Browns roller-coaster ride these past 18 months.
Heaven forbid ... Am I a fan?
Damnit. I think I am.
And whoāda thought it would be the NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns, and JFF that would make me realize that?
But apparently 24 hours of gleeful optimism and childlike exuberance was too much to ask. Because the following day, news broke that Browns superstar wide receiver Josh Gordon may be facing a year-long suspension for another (alleged) failed drug test.
āBut apparently 24 hours of gleeful optimism and childlike exuberance was too much to ask.ā
Damnit. Are you f--king kidding me?
If this is fandom, I donāt know if I have the kind of heart that can sustain like this.
But itās gonna be okay.
Just wait ātil next year. Itās gonna be our year
Thatās how we roll in #Believeland.
It's really unbelievable what we've through the last two years.
Heck, I look back at just the last six months an it's nearly incomprehensible - 1st year Coach & staff let go, GM fired, CEO fired, FA, Draft, Gordon . . .
Welcome to all the new Fans . . . you may not like everything that's going to happen, but you won't be bored . . . and personally, I think things are turning around for the good.
This is a pretty good read on the Browns by Scott Fujita :
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/simply-put-i-was-sucked-back-in-by-the-draft-051314
It's really unbelievable what we've through the last 18 two years.
Heck, I look back at just the last six months an it's nearly incomprehensible - 1st year Coach & staff let go, GM fired, CEO fired, FA, Draft, Gordon . . .
Welcome to all the new Fans . . . you may not like everything that's going to happen, but you won't be bored . . . and personally, I think things are turning around for the good.
This was an amazing piece.
There are many former players that have chastised the Browns once they were released by the club (I'm looking at you, Trent Dilfer).
It's refreshing to hear a player leave the club and find out that he's now like us, rooting for a team that he feels passionately about.
Fujita has been a favorite of mine for years. For fear of stirring up a useless debate, I'll choose to leave his political and social beliefs out of it and instead say that he seems to be an all-around nice guy as well as a very solid player. His relationship and adventure with Steve Gleason is an aspiring story.
I'm glad he wrote this. Thank you, Scott.
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My hope is that JFF stays with Cleveland for his entire career, so these new fans have no reason to leave and have every reason to stay Browns
My hope is that JFF stays with Cleveland for his entire career, so these new fans have no reason to leave and have every reason to stay Browns
Yeah, I hope he's as good as everyone hopes he is . . . if that's the case, I don't see him leaving.
Amen brothers!
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This is a pretty good read on the Browns by Scott Fujita :
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/simply-put-i-was-sucked-back-in-by-the-draft-051314
Simply put, I was sucked back in by the draft
This past week, I think I became a football fan again.
Typically, as the NFL Draft approaches, I find myself trading barbs via social media with football fans and followers, quipping about the draft being Americaās quintessential tribute to Communism. This usually doesnāt sit well with many die-hard football patriots, who accuse me of blasphemy or of being downright un-American. But occasionally, by the end of our chat, a few folks reluctantly accept the āComradeā title Iāve bestowed upon them and see that itās actually the draft thatās rather un-American.
My closing argument might look something like this, in the form of a hypothetical workplace scenario I create for my Twitter opponent(s):
@sfujita55: Hey @SupaBowlWarDawg99, you are one of the absolute best in the world at what you do. And to reward you, weāre sending you to ______ (insert perceived hellhole geographic location or perennial dysfunctional organization). Congratulations! And weāre also going to cap your earning potential. And restrict you from going anywhere else as long as we possibly can. And if you underperform on the assembly line youāll likely be discarded. And if we fail to provide a competent regime and workplace environment for you and your fellow comrades, too f--king bad. Welcome to the USSR...um, I mean, the NFL.
āBut itās okay Comrade,ā Iād joke, āI went to Berkeley, so you and I are in the same bloc!ā
Obviously I was just having a good time with ā@SupaBowlWarDawg99ā and other like-minded football fanatics. Trolling, if you will.
But for years, I think a big part of me actually did resent the draft. Political ideology and my flair for the dramatic aside, I probably just resented the idea that so much time and effort (and dollars) were being allocated in an attempt to find someone better than me, and to replace many of my friends and teammates. So perhaps I lashed out at the intrinsically capitalistic, dog-eat-dog nature of the draft, by pointing out some of its more socialistic tendencies. Cognitive dissonance defined, kids.
But this yearās draft was different. My typical Berkeleyan rabble-rousing was replaced by rah-rahās and fist pumps.
And it pains me to admit that I actually contributed to the TV ratings by tuning in from time to time to watch NFL Draft coverage. Yes, I sold out! Hypocrisy at its finest.
The reason for my sudden change of heart? The Cleveland Browns
The ups and downs of the Cleveland Browns
Iām now about 18 months removed from playing the game, and naturally, Iāve continued to follow the sport. Especially the teams I feel most connected to: the Saints, Chiefs and Browns. I pull for my friends, hope they play well and win a lot of games, stay healthy, get big contracts, etc. But I donāt know if Iāve considered myself an actual fan.
I remember when Browns Head Coach Pat Shurmur informed us on the opening day of training camp in 2012 that team owner Randy Lerner had just sold the club. I thought to myself: Thereās a whole bunch of dead men walking around here, and everyone knows it. This season might get pretty dismal. But I hadnāt thought much about how Browns fans viewed this transaction.
And when a local beat writer Iād become friendly with after joining the Browns in 2010 gave me a copy of Scott Hulerās On Being Brown: What it Means to Be a Cleveland Browns Fan, I read it and thought yeah, yeah, yeah ... every fan thinks theyāre more dedicated than every other fan.
But after a year and a half of following the Browns from the outside, Iāve begun to see the roller coaster ride that all Browns fans have experienced over the past few decades. Up and down. Up and down. Up and down.
With new owner Jimmy Haslam sounding staunchly committed to creating long-term stability, you couldnāt help but think the perpetual dysfunction and organizational overhauls that had plagued the Browns for so long had ended. But then reports of an FBI/IRS probe regarding Haslamās family business sounded awfully messy, creating a new sense of uncertainty around the team. This issue remains unresolved.
Scrappy quarterback Brian Hoyer comes off the bench and leads the upstart Browns to three consecutive wins during the 2013 season. When was the last time you saw that happen in Cleveland? But then he suffers a season-ending injury and the Browns lose 10 of their last 11 games.
When Browns team brass decided to trade running back Trent Richardson just a year after making him their top pick in the 2012 draft, I defended the move as a commitment to getting things right by loading up for future drafts. This was a courageous and forward-thinking decision, I argued, with an eye on stability. But just a few short months later, Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski was fired after less than a year on the job. Back to square one.
An exhaustive coaching search to find the right man to āstabilize this organizationā turned into a weeks-long train-wreck, as it appeared the Browns head coaching gig was a job no one would touch. Iāve never seen so many head coaching candidates declare publicly that they were removing their names from consideration for whatās typically a highly coveted job.
General Manager Mike Lombardi and CEO Joe Banner, the visionaries behind the Trent Richardson trade and the assumed architects of stability, got fired in February of this year. This happened just over a month after Chudzinskiās dismissal, and also right after new head coach Mike Pettine was hired. The timing here left everyone scratching their heads.
Each of these organizational facelifts are the kinds of things that may happen to a club every 5-10 years, if ever. But these all took place during the period of time Iāve been following the Browns as a non-player -- in just the last 18 months. Can you imagine going through 20, 30, 40 years of this? A lot of Browns fans can.
But what do they always say in Cleveland? Just wait ātil next year. Itās gonna be our year.
#Believeland
What transpired in Cleveland on Day 1 of this yearās draft was nothing short of exhilarating. I hadnāt been this fired up or engrossed in the draft since Dick Vermeil called my Berkeley apartment to tell me I was the 143rd pick of the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2002 NFL Draft. Or perhaps since the L.A. Rams took Eric Dickerson with the second pick of the 1983 NFL Draft. Let the record reflect that if my folks would have let me wear a jheri curl, I would have.
But that first round by the Browns seemed straight out of Kevin Costnerās Draft Day (a movie I of course refuse to see because I donāt support films about Communism). I was getting text updates from friends and colleagues about trades down and trades up, and about how new Browns GM Ray Farmer was in total command during his first draft at the helm.
That was when I actually turned on the television to follow the draft coverage in real time! And I was sucked right in. And thatās when I saw the Cleveland Browns make the move to draft former Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel.
This was a move to get excited about. This was the pick that was going to change everything. I might travel out for a few (non-winter) home games in Cleveland this year! I may even reach out to Johnny Football to see if he wants to rent my condo in Crocker Park. Perhaps I could crash at his/my place when visiting, with dibs on his/my sofa. I mean, why not? I like to party.
Then I caught myself.
Who is this person fist-pumping in front of the TV on NFL Draft day?
Was I actually that conflicted when linebacker (and friend) DāQwell Jackson and the Browns parted ways this offseason?
Why did I feel relieved when the Browns matched Alex Mack's contract offer sheet from the Jacksonville Jaguars?
And had I really been so affected by every little up-and-down on that Browns roller-coaster ride these past 18 months.
Heaven forbid ... Am I a fan?
Damnit. I think I am.
And whoāda thought it would be the NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns, and JFF that would make me realize that?
But apparently 24 hours of gleeful optimism and childlike exuberance was too much to ask. Because the following day, news broke that Browns superstar wide receiver Josh Gordon may be facing a year-long suspension for another (alleged) failed drug test.
āBut apparently 24 hours of gleeful optimism and childlike exuberance was too much to ask.ā
Damnit. Are you f--king kidding me?
If this is fandom, I donāt know if I have the kind of heart that can sustain like this.
But itās gonna be okay.
Just wait ātil next year. Itās gonna be our year
Thatās how we roll in #Believeland.
It's really unbelievable what we've through the last two years.
Heck, I look back at just the last six months an it's nearly incomprehensible - 1st year Coach & staff let go, GM fired, CEO fired, FA, Draft, Gordon . . .
Welcome to all the new Fans . . . you may not like everything that's going to happen, but you won't be bored . . . and personally, I think things are turning around for the good.
This is a pretty good read on the Browns by Scott Fujita :
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/simply-put-i-was-sucked-back-in-by-the-draft-051314
It's really unbelievable what we've through the last two years.
Heck, I look back at just the last six months an it's nearly incomprehensible - 1st year Coach & staff let go, GM fired, CEO fired, FA, Draft, Gordon . . .
Welcome to all the new Fans . . . you may not like everything that's going to happen, but you won't be bored . . . and personally, I think things are turning around for the good.
If you think the last 18 months have been crazy, in the words of Al Jolson: "You ain't seen Nothing yet". To quote JFF: The Browns are gonna wreck this league.
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Note you you newbies: One of the reasons "true" Browns fans are skeptical about what we perceive to be bandwagon jumpers is that...as true fans of the team we have stuck with this team through the thin and thinner that we have had to put up with these oh so many years, and we have a certain skepticism about anyone who has not "felt our pain" be able to truly relate to what it is to be a Browns fan.
And the other thing is that something else is totally anathema to us: The FRAK. The FrontRunnerAssKisser. Those are the guys that espouse loyalty to one team or another, and follow one team or another purely on the basis that that particular team has been fairly good.
Many of you being from Texas I am sure you know the type: they jump on the Cowboys bandwagon when they are good and jump like a flea to a new dog when the blood runs dry. The FRAK Phenomena is even more legion with a team about 140 miles down the turnpike from here. We have a great number of them here who have this ignorant concept in their mind that because the majority of the people around them are fans of the Browns, and because their psyches cannot handle conforming apparently, that they go root for the more successful main rival of our team. Do these fuckfaces root for the Saints/Jags/Chargers/ etc. teams that have not had such great success? No, they glom onto the rival that was a winner.....not because they like that team per se, but only because in their insecure little brains they lack the capacity to have character, loyalty or allegience to their home team. They would be the type of people that would have rooted for Germany when they were winning WWII, but then turn on them and root for another country when things go bad for them.
So, understand, we know you want to continue to follow your boy, and that is OK. But just don't be surprised if we are a bit wary of FRAKs....which is a different thing.
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