@the-gipper said:

Here are this week's survey questions. Please give your opinions or answers:

<<1. So Peyton Manning as Browns GM, next year. You fer it or agin it?>>

How can anyone offer an opinion on this?

Because opinions are like assholes....everyone has one, a few people more than one.

Of course whatever opinions are offered here have absolutely no affect on the operations of the Cleveland Browns (psst....including yours Ghoolie!)

Manning has no qualifications or job performance with applicable experience. Why would he be better than Kosar? Why not Bradshaw, Phil SImms or Eric Zeir?

Here is a novel idea. How about instead of hiring people from the perspective of a dumb ass football fan who idolizes ex players and recylcled GMs, the Browns actually hire someone based on their personal skills, beliefs, value system, intelligence and business philosophy? You know................. someone unique and out of the box? Oh, here is something to make your vagina pucker............... how about someone not with a football background? Oh wait, I am an idiot. Hiring guys with football backgrounds has really worked well for us so far..... hasn't it?

2.<< Whether Peyton is GM.....who would you want to see as HC of the Cleveland Browns next year....if not Pettine?>>

Again, mental masturbation.

Of course.....its all for shits and giggles......this board is all about entertaining Browns fans...and wildass speculation on a subject such as this is just part of the entertainment process....or as you say, the mental masturbation process.

(though....with a few on here I am not sure the masturbation is mental)

A fan has absolutely no idea of what a HC's viability is to the team. The only thing fans can do is pimp whoever is on television and make all kind of fucked up pretend observations as if we really know these candidates from Adam. AGAIN, the better question is what values does a man have? What is his vision? His resume, per re doens't mean shit. Phil Sewage, who I called Ozzie's Coffee Fetcher, and Romeo Crennel who I called Belichik's coffee fetcher both had great football resumes. A football resume doens't mean shit. All it means is that a guy was a part of something big and got credit for it. Now, Bill B? yeah...... HIS resume means something........ but that shit head Holmgren? Only a moron didn't know he would fail. Sewage, Crennel, Holmgren didn't have one single credential that suited them for the jobs they won. HIRE THE MAN............ not the fucking resume.

<<3. What team do you think will be the "surprise team" of the NFL the rest of this season and into the playoffs. This can be good.....or it can be bad (in other words, what team that is in good position now could tank in the next 6 weeks)?>>

I see the Steelers in the AFC championship game. I am pulling for another Patriots SB. If not, the NFL is so bland and unremarkable, who gives a shit.?

On the contrary....to me, seeing the Patriots and the Steelers in contention again is what MAKES the NFL bland and unremarkable. Those teams bore the life out of me. Sure, if you have a rooting interest in those teams that would not be the case (and perhaps you have a rooting interest in those teams). But for a neutral fan, no, those teams present a snooze fest.

How about this unique idea: have teams that have not been in contention in a while become the favorites.....including a team that we may have a rooting interest in....say...The Cleveland Browns.

But if not the Browns....I am all in for having the likes of the Panthers, Cardinals, Vikings, Chiefs...even the fucking Bengals etc. be contenders. Fuck the Patriots, fuck the Steelers.

<<4. What player that played before your time would you have like to have seen play.

Do this for football, baseball, basketball (or any other sport).>>

James J Braddock. When I learned to box my Uncle Nick, a Jack Dempsey throwback used to tech me his style and tell me of his trials and tribulations. Braddock was a great, great American, a good Irish Christian, and a brave soul. If you never saw Cinderella man, you missed a great piece of American History.

Nice one.

<5. What movies do you often quote lines from?>

"Shh......can you smell that - Ghost busters........"

"Pyle, you (insert expletives)' Full Metal Jacket

"Look at the big tits on that witch" (Wizard of Oz, cutting room floor)

must have been the Wicked Witch of the East....or Glinda. (Margaret Hamilton had no tits to speak of)

I remember Wilt. But Russell retired in 69, the year I turned 5. I remember Browns games from 69, but no NBA. Became an NBA fan along with Cavs inaugural season of 1970.

Zombo

Here are this week's survey questions. Please give your opinions or answers:

1. So Peyton Manning as Browns GM, next year. You fer it or agin it?

Not GM. Would find another position for him in the unlikely event that he would actually come here.

2. Whether Peyton is GM.....who would you want to see as HC of the Cleveland Browns next year....if not Pettine?

God I hope its not Pettine. Brian Kelly

3. What team do you think will be the "surprise team" of the NFL the rest of this season and into the playoffs. This can be good.....or it can be bad (in other words, what team that is in good position now could tank in the next 6 weeks)?

May not be a surprise, but I see the Bills being a wildcard team

4. What player that played before your time would you have like to have seen play.

Do this for football, baseball, basketball (or any other sport).

Bob Pettit in basketball. Jackie Robinson in baseball. Red Grange in football. Joe Louis in boxing,

5. What movies do you often quote lines from?

Tombstone, Platoon,

5. Animal House..... Hey, you fucked up. You trusted us.

Here are this week's survey questions. Please give your opinions or answers:

1. So Peyton Manning as Browns GM, next year. You fer it or agin it?

2. Whether Peyton is GM.....who would you want to see as HC of the Cleveland Browns next year....if not Pettine?

Mark D'antonio from MS

3. What team do you think will be the "surprise team" of the NFL the rest of this season and into the playoffs. This can be good.....or it can be bad (in other words, what team that is in good position now could tank in the next 6 weeks)?

The Chiefs.. It's just a random guess.

4. What player that played before your time would you have like to have seen play.

Do this for football, baseball, basketball (or any other sport).

Jim Brown

5. What movies do you often quote lines from?

The Godfather.

4. What player that played before your time would you have like to have seen play.

Do this for football, baseball, basketball (or any other sport).

Jim Brown, Babe Ruth, Bill Russell

I thought you would have been old enough to have seen Russell. I saw both JB and Russell, but obviously not The Sultan of Swat.

When did you start watching sports?

Here are this week's survey questions. Please give your opinions or answers:

1. So Peyton Manning as Browns GM, next year. You fer it or agin it?

No. How could he possibly be in tune with this draft class while he's playing? He'd have to rely on our present scouting staff I would think.

2. Whether Peyton is GM.....who would you want to see as HC of the Cleveland Browns next year....if not Pettine?

If not Pettine, and offensive-minded coach like McDaniels.

3. What team do you think will be the "surprise team" of the NFL the rest of this season and into the playoffs. This can be good.....or it can be bad (in other words, what team that is in good position now could tank in the next 6 weeks)?

KC Chiefs are playing well and have a head coach who knows what it takes to win.

4. What player that played before your time would you have like to have seen play.

Do this for football, baseball, basketball (or any other sport).

Otto Graham, Joe DiMaggio, & Bob Cousy

5. What movies do you often quote lines from?

Ghostbusters

4. What player that played before your time would you have like to have seen play.

Do this for football, baseball, basketball (or any other sport).

eh....nothing "before my time" has any value.....

That makes you ripe to be a Steeler fan FRAK

Here are this week's survey questions. Please give your opinions or answers:

1. So Peyton Manning as Browns GM, next year. You fer it or agin it?

No.....have zero reason to think he's GM material.....

2. Whether Peyton is GM.....who would you want to see as HC of the Cleveland Browns next year....if not Pettine?

Honestly, no one out there that excites me much.....Id rather see some better talent, than new coaches.....

3. What team do you think will be the "surprise team" of the NFL the rest of this season and into the playoffs. This can be good.....or it can be bad (in other words, what team that is in good position now could tank in the next 6 weeks)?

So many teams, that were supposed to be good, have already tanked(including us)....one might find their way back.....here's one you all will love....Bengals fall and the Stoolers take the division....hahahaha!

4. What player that played before your time would you have like to have seen play.

Do this for football, baseball, basketball (or any other sport).

eh....nothing "before my time" has any value.....

5. What movies do you often quote lines from?

Often?.....none really....though I do like hooking my thumbs in my pants and calling people "pilgrim"......and I have a nephew named Luke, so it's always . "Luke, I am your uncle"....

5. What movies do you often quote lines from?

Airplane. Probably others but I can't remember.

Surely you will be able to come up with a few others, no?

Here are this week's survey questions. Please give your opinions or answers:

1. So Peyton Manning as Browns GM, next year. You fer it or agin it?

No, pretty much agin it. Now, if he wants to come in at a lower level......asst. to the GM.....or Consultant to the Owner, in order to learn how a front office works, and work his way up from there, perhaps.

2. Whether Peyton is GM.....who would you want to see as HC of the Cleveland Browns next year....if not Pettine?

Prefer Pettine stay

....but...if he had to go, I would consider highly some of these guys:

Mike Munchak or Adam Gase.

3. What team do you think will be the "surprise team" of the NFL the rest of this season and into the playoffs. This can be good.....or it can be bad (in other words, what team that is in good position now could tank in the next 6 weeks)?

I can only see Kansas City getting better.....and being a potential force. And always beware of the Seahawks.

And the one real dark horse: The Jaguars

As for tanking....the Falcons seem to have started already. And, yes, the team that has made the "tank" an art form: The Bengals.

4. What player that played before your time would you have like to have seen play.

Do this for football, baseball, basketball (or any other sport).

Football: Otto Graham and Marion Motley...and Fritz Pollard. It would have been interesting to see a black man quarterback an NFL team in the 20s.

Baseball: The usual suspects: Babe Ruth, Gehrig, Dimaggio, plus the 1948 Indians pitching staff: Bob Feller, Bob Lemon

Basketball: I would have to go back to the likes of Dolph Schayes and George Mikan.

Other: Jesse Owens and Jim Thorpe.

5. What movies do you often quote lines from?

Several......including the one that I just quote above:

Casablanca ("the usual suspects")

The Godfather

Monty Python's Holy Grail

Pulp Fiction

Ferris Buehler

Star Wars series.

One time, recently I went out for breakfast and got a very bitter cup of coffee. The waitress came back to ask "how is the coffee" and I said to her in my evil emperor voice. "The Force is Strong with this coffee". My wife and the waitress thought it funny at the time. maybe you had to be there.

Here are this week's survey questions. Please give your opinions or answers:

1. So Peyton Manning as Browns GM, next year. You fer it or agin it?

Nay. OC, QB coach, assistant GM, aye.

2. Whether Peyton is GM.....who would you want to see as HC of the Cleveland Browns next year....if not Pettine?

Realistically? No idea. There's a paucity of available coaches.

3. What team do you think will be the "surprise team" of the NFL the rest of this season and into the playoffs. This can be good.....or it can be bad (in other words, what team that is in good position now could tank in the next 6 weeks)?

Bengals remember that they're the bengals, and have now reached the point of the season where they go .500 to finish 11-5 and then lose in the first round of the playoffs...to the 10-6 chiefs, who are now 5-5, after starting 1-5, and have games against the browns, ravens, raiders (twice) and chargers to come, along with a home game vs the up and down bills.

4. What player that played before your time would you have like to have seen play.

Do this for football, baseball, basketball (or any other sport).

Pele

5. What movies do you often quote lines from?

Airplane. Probably others but I can't remember.