Pain Rankings
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The Move
Nothing else comes close because that was actually taking my team from me. Don't see how anyone could see it any other way.
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The move. And I've been following the Browns for a long time. Just got back from the airport and decided to visit my mother. While there watching the news it showed Modell in Baltimore announcing the move, with shitbird fans waving 'Baltimore Browns' signs. I felt like I got gut punched. The others were bad, but this in my opinion was by far the worst.
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The move. And I've been following the Browns for a long time. Just got back from the airport and decided to visit my mother. While there watching the news it showed Modell in Baltimore announcing the move, with shitbird fans waving 'Baltimore Browns' signs. I felt like I got gut punched. The others were bad, but this in my opinion was by far the worst.
The move. And I've been following the Browns for a long time. Just got back from the airport and decided to visit my mother. While there watching the news it showed Modell in Baltimore announcing the move, with shitbird fans waving 'Baltimore Browns' signs. I felt like I got gut punched. The others were bad, but this in my opinion was by far the worst.
Of course the bad thing about the move is that it has essentially screwed us up for 20 years in terms of being competitive. While the move is not responsible for all the instability in terms of the HCs and GMs and QBs etc......it was the Genesis for all those problems.
We have just not had a proper person come in here and resolve all those issues.
I mean.....what would have happened if they drafted Tom Brady instead of Spurgeon Wynn in round 6 of the 2000 draft? Would he have become Tom Brady....or not?
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well...looks like we are officially #1.....yay?
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000503270/article/pain-rankings-no-1-the-cleveland-browns
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Never a doubt.
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Id only say that after reading this thread, it's apparent that the most pain comes from "almost" making it, then losing.....IE...the drive, the fumble and Red Right 88.....I dont see anyone saying the greatest pain was going 4-12 or just losing.....and thats because of expectation....
And, with that in mind, how could the Browns losing a few playoff games even compare to the Bills and Vikings losing all those SuperBowls?........
Maybe it's because we moved AND lost?......but losing 4 SuperBowls in a row has got to be unimaginable pain(Buffalo)
I think it is how we lost ... how great we were before the Super Bowl era ... the fact that we have never been to a Super Bowl ... "The Move" was probably the most painful thing that happened to any sports base, ever ... and the subsequent laughable team that has followed is salt in the wounds for the loyal fans that have endured it.
Four Super Bowl losses means you won four AFC Championships ... I'll take one of those.
Zombo
Zombo said:
I think it is how we lost ...
Exactly... that's why The Fumble got its lone vote from me. Built to the height of elation over 28 glorious, second-half minutes and then crashed in a split second.
In Red Right there was time for an "Oh No... We're passing?"
In The Drive there was an impending sense of doom that built late and carried over into OT.
The Move? Well... there was much time to see what was coming... much writing on the proverbial wall... so it lacked the "shock value". But what it lacked in impact has endured like a faucet that you cannot stop from dripping with only a few respites...
Here's to the current respite being full blown.
I don't know that if the Browns won 2 Super Bowls in that era that it would have made Art Modell any less inept at what he was doing.
Maybe... but he did "inept" his way to a SB shortly after leaving.
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Maybe... but he did "inept" his way to a SB shortly after leaving.
Not him. Biscott had already purchased the team.....Modell was just a caretaker for a bit. He was El Cid....just a propped up dead man.
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Zombo said:
The Drive, The Fumble and Red Right 88 were all equally soul-crushing.
Red Right 88 probably hurt the most because during the Kosar years I was in my early 20's, living life, with a real job, chasing skirts ... had some perspective ... But in 1980 I was a dorky 16 year old living in Steeler Country and the Browns were my life and the Kardiac Kid Season was like a glorious dream come true and it ended in an instant on an ill-advised throw from my hero, Brian Sipe, after one of the worst decisions in Sports History by a coach I loved, riverboat gambler Sam Rutigliano.
Not quite as bad as Pete Carroll not running Marshawn Lynch, but up there.
I still remember watching the ball floating into Mike Davis's hands in stunned disbelief. My mom and my sister were in the room, they were rooting along with me, but they're, you know, women, and they didn't get the significance of it and didn't understand that the ball had been intercepted until after I had stormed out of the room, accidently knocking over my 1 year old nephew as I left. I went to my room and probably stayed there for two days. Ironically my mom, and that nephew, are now Browns fans ... only two I could convert out of a family of Steeler fans.
But that day, and all the other soul crushers, are what makes us who we are ... and I wouldn't switch teams for anything in the world, which is why I voted for the move ... Fuck you Modell.
Zombo
Zombo said:
The Drive, The Fumble and Red Right 88 were all equally soul-crushing.
Red Right 88 probably hurt the most because during the Kosar years I was in my early 20's, living life, with a real job, chasing skirts ... had some perspective ... But in 1980 I was a dorky 16 year old living in Steeler Country and the Browns were my life and the Kardiac Kid Season was like a glorious dream come true and it ended in an instant on an ill-advised throw from my hero, Brian Sipe, after one of the worst decisions in Sports History by a coach I loved, riverboat gambler Sam Rutigliano.
Not quite as bad as Pete Carroll not running Marshawn Lynch, but up there.
I still remember watching the ball floating into Mike Davis's hands in stunned disbelief. My mom and my sister were in the room, they were rooting along with me, but they're, you know, women, and they didn't get the significance of it and didn't understand that the ball had been intercepted until after I had stormed out of the room, accidently knocking over my 1 year old nephew as I left. I went to my room and probably stayed there for two days. Ironically my mom, and that nephew, are now Browns fans ... only two I could convert out of a family of Steeler fans.
But that day, and all the other soul crushers, are what makes us who we are ... and I wouldn't switch teams for anything in the world, which is why I voted for the move ... Fuck you Modell.
Zombo
Just happened to come across this: he agrees with you, has Sam #9 and Carroll #1
http://sportsandwrestling.mywowbb.com/view_topic.php?id=37160&forum_id=3
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