@sober-poet said:

Someone said he has been having the dropsies. Well, lets see him get over that problem...then let's see some TDs.

Whew!

Now let's see some touchdowns!

@ghoolie said:

I believe it was Mickey McBride who wanted to name the team after Paul Brown....but PB didn't want to appear so vain. (even though he probably was). And from what I recall....PB finally acquiesced to "The Browns"....but it was he that said: They are named after Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber...and not me..oh no...not me" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

@westside-steve said:

I agree. But it's slow man. LOL

@syd said:

a person I know did ten years for saying nothing

Hey,hey!!! Leave me outa this!

@ghoolie said:

Believable or not, it is true. There is no way that a millionaire like McBride was going to name HIS team after a subordinate. That is what is not believable Steve. It would be like Art Modell naming his team the Martys. It just doesn't follow any logic. Ohio loves Paul Brown, but the team was named after Joe Louis.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/12/were-the-cleveland-browns-named-after-boxer-joe-louis.html

Comparing Paul Brown to Marty Schottenheimer is what defies logic. Bullshit I maintain, pure and simple.

WSS

Only later, when self important assholes where able to change history did the fake story of the team being named after Paul Brown emerge. Shit holes like WIkipedia shoe the bastardized version.

HOWEVER............... as you can see in this article, the Browns own historical account lists Joe Louis as the source of the Browns name.

http://sportsteamhistory.com/cleveland-browns/

Any questions? Good. Next topic.

@westside-steve said:

Believable or not, it is true. There is no way that a millionaire like McBride was going to name HIS team after a subordinate. That is what is not believable Steve. It would be like Art Modell naming his team the Martys. It just doesn't follow any logic. Ohio loves Paul Brown, but the team was named after Joe Louis.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/12/were-the-cleveland-browns-named-after-boxer-joe-louis.html

@the-gipper said:

I never said the Browns were named after Jim Brown. Once in jest I said they were named after "Jim Browns". Those with an IQ of greater than 60 realized I was trolling for the idiots who would lash out and say....Ha Ha....Ghoolie doesn't know that it is JIM BROWN and not Jim Browns. Kind of like my posting that Eric Heiden was our greatest TE.

My Dad was an aficionado of all things Brown. He always maintained that the Browns were named after Joe Louis, the Detroit Brown Bomber. As you point out, there are quite a few historians who agree with that account. This account of course upsets many Browns fans as it shakes their image of the great Paul Brown.

If you read about Arthur McBride, the logic does not follow that he named the team after Paul Brown. He most certainly did not. He named the team after Joe Louis. The team for a short time was called the Cleveland Brown Bombers, and then Shortened to, "The Browns."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2011/12/were-the-cleveland-browns-named-after-boxer-joe-louis.html

Thought he had a so so rookie season.

Once again another Browns player putting himself in a shit situation regardless of the outcome.

WSS

@ghoolie said:

I don't know if you said Jim Brown or Joe Louis....but if you said Joe Louis, my some reputable sources you would be right...the most reputable of all being Paul Brown.

So, they were either named after Paul Brown....or they were named after Joe Louis. If Joe Louis, then the "Browns" name is a direct racial reference.

So....what have we in this town: one team named after a racial group (Indians). Another team named after another racial group (Browns), and a team named after gentlemen trained in arms and horsemanship who were adherents of King Charles I of England (who by the way had his head cut off by his enemies)

Good one Tom, that's a real zinger. Menawhile, when your wife kisses you, she kisses the dicks of Savage, Crennel and Williams by proxy.

@d-bone said:

It's a rip snortin riot. He can't remember what he lied about last or to whom he assigned it to. My favorite was when he posted this franchise was named after a 10 year old Jim Brown in 1946.

Have you heard about that 10 year old youth football player?

No, who is he?

He's a man among boys named Jim Brown.

Where did he come from?

He moved from Georgia to Long Island.

Really? I think we should name our franchise after him!

Me too. Let's run it!

And so it was...

They were named after Joe Louis

@ghoolie said:

Are you practicing for another Memphis Moonshine essay contest? If so, powering down Tennessee stupid juice until 3:28 am with all other crackheads while exercising your freedom of speech is a terrific idea. The world according to Seymore Crack has provided us with all of the following insights:

1. Randy Lerner still owns this team (who owns this team after your next sip?)

2. Paxton Lynch is the next John Elway (only this version backed up a 7th round/2nd year QB from Northwestern. You can tell if they're a real version when they actually beat out the Kubiak. While we wait on that one, can you imagine how funny this is going to get if/when the last pick of the 2017 draft is starting at QB in Denver in 2018?)

3. Mitch Trubisky = Peyton Manning (which means he'll prolly look like a Jehovah Witness trying to preach at a fraternity party in Chicago. Stay tuned...)

4. John Elway has a great eye for QB talent (yeah, he drafted Osweiler and articulated his ass-bleed when he lost him to Houston. You remember that as well as you remember who owns this team today)

5. Smart NFL Teams will just sign a bunch of Sumo Wrestlers to makeup their Offensive Lines. (Sumo party of 1? Not yet? Okay.)

6. Mo Clarett is the next Jim Brown - Book it! (In the saddest version of "The Longest Yard" - he never made an NFL team = 0 yards gained.)

7. Joe Thomas sucks. (Watching him make the Pro Bowl 10 times in 10 years at Left Tackle didn't have to feel like getting your teeth pulled unless...)

8. They named the Cleveland Browns after Jim Brown. (So Nostradumbass, in 1946 we named our franchise after a 10 year old kid in another state?)

9. Bernie Kosar sucked. (Those long winded rants from about 99 to 07 were about as yap dog ankle bite as your Joe Thomas diatribe)

10. Cleveland fans are stupid. (That explains why you spend all your spare time worrying about how much attention you get from them to the extent you want to buy this board. When Zombo starts a better board, that would strand you the following company on Ghooliegan's Island: Nickers, Stink, and Rich. While Stink has been practicing the role of Ginger - Poor Nickers is going to have to be the Professor...)

Now, for the 1 thing you got right. LOVE me some Gregg Williams. That guy is terrific! He's the only DC that earned a ring in New Orleans. While I'm at it - which one of us 2 TN residents knows who the DC was for the Titans the only year they made it to the Superbowl? Is that 2 Superbowls for 2 different organizations? When he interviews for DC job and he's asked by Hue where do you see yourself in 5 years? He replies with "Let's put it this way, you'll be fetching my coffee. And I like it black like our Quarterback."

@nickers said:

Agreed....the pick was a huge head scratcher.......Heck, I didnt want a WR in the first, at all.....but I was pushing for Thomas, ifn we were gonna pick one....only to be called a homer, cause he was an OSU player....

And, yes.....he easily had the best rookie season of em all.....

Good thing we let Pryor walk on principle. It's Britt and??? To lead our offence through the air.

I just hate crap like this.

@sober-poet said:

The three keys to this are bold, red font.

Because of Holman, Sapp's friend, Coleman was named in the police report from the incident.

It's hard to imagine, as many have said, how he wasn't involved.

Just because the guy didn't drag the beaten body to the parking garage doesn't mean he didn't touch him. The other two are his goons, that type of work isn't for the ringleader.

Not exactly sure what the hold-up is for indictment. There have been charges filed against perps for much less.

@jiggins7919 said:

Coleman out performed all of the other top receivers in his draft class last year.

Sounds great...except they all got hurt for longer than him.