@nickers said:

We are like brothers... Yeah.. Their skin might be dark.. But they are a great group of hard workin dudes... We all bleed the same..

That's some good AFL-CIO ad copy

@hoorta said:

Haslam isn't calling the shots anymore nickers.  Johnny Football taught him a severe lesson. It's Berry's show now... and we're still dealing with the after effects of the previous mistakes.  You can debate all you want to, but taking Baker #1 overall, considering the alternatives, can't be considered a major screw up....

But unfortunately, the Bungles had the no brainer pick available when they got to the top of the draft heap.    

ya ya joe got them to the big game blah blah blah that being said I have no belief  that paul brown will get the o-line fixed this year and joe will just get punished more next season I mean how many hits can a guy take in 3 years so ya I still believe we are the better team with a healthy Q.B

@nickers said:

Seeing the Bungles make it there... I gotta believe Haslam is just seething underneath his shirt collar and to have to face the fact and realize him and Dee Haslam are still getting it "ALL FUCKING WRONG.. And to be truthful... I'm sick of Haslam Bungling it at every turn!!

Haslam isn't calling the shots anymore nickers.  Johnny Football taught him a severe lesson. It's Berry's show now... and we're still dealing with the after effects of the previous mistakes.  You can debate all you want to, but taking Baker #1 overall, considering the alternatives, can't be considered a major screw up....

But unfortunately, the Bungles had the no brainer pick available when they got to the top of the draft heap.    

@the-cysko-kid said:

The halftime show was a gangsta rap throwback. Not exactly woke and honestly pretty good. 

Yeah, it was definitely entertaining at the least. 

I have no idea what nickers is rambling on about every thing being woke. I think it is hilarious, though. 

@dutch-oven said:

WOKE as in there are black performers at this halftime show? ?

The halftime show was a gangsta rap throwback. Not exactly woke and honestly pretty good. 

@hoorta said:

Oh, exactly...  Their fanbase is fairweather to the nth degree....  Out at dinner tonight talking to a guy ( New York transplant) and a Jets fan.... Well, his wife (supposed mega Bengals fan) isn't staying for the second half of  our Super Bowl party.. Can't stand the suspense? Yeah, I'll be mean..  Montana to Rice... you're one short on heartbreak,  The Drive, The Fumble.... At least you made it to the Super Bowl...   

I can handle OBJ gloating, or Carpetbagger Kroenke spending his way to a (probable) one and done SB win....  But as far as I'm concerned.. Dem Bungles need to wait around another 30 years or so to get to another Super Bowl....

Plus the fact the Rams will be out of sight out of mind, but you gotta live with Bungle fans.

Who Dey!?!?!

@ibleedbrown said:

I have come to realize that through some sort of hardwiring issue l am incapable of rooting for the Bengals. I really don’t know what the deal is. If anyone doesn’t know, l live in Cincy. I love the Reds, l love Skyline chili, l have a several friends who l genuinely like who are Bengals fans, yet l cannot bring myself in my heart of hearts to root for them to win even for their sake. 

I think it’s good old fashioned jealousy. I just can’t bear to see the Bengals win the Superbowl without at least seeing the Browns GO to the Superbowl. 

Oh, exactly...  Their fanbase is fairweather to the nth degree....  Out at dinner tonight talking to a guy ( New York transplant) and a Jets fan.... Well, his wife (supposed mega Bengals fan) isn't staying for the second half of  our Super Bowl party.. Can't stand the suspense? Yeah, I'll be mean..  Montana to Rice... you're one short on heartbreak,  The Drive, The Fumble.... At least you made it to the Super Bowl...   

I can handle OBJ gloating, or Carpetbagger Kroenke spending his way to a (probable) one and done SB win....  But as far as I'm concerned.. Dem Bungles need to wait around another 30 years or so to get to another Super Bowl....

I think it’s good old fashioned jealousy. I just can’t bear to see the Bengals win the Superbowl without at least seeing the Browns GO to the Superbowl. 

@calfoxwc said:

Having said that, I really am rooting for the Bengals to win completely.

I'm hoping thy have an incomplete win. lol

GO BENGALS ! (sqealers and ratbirds won't be happy. YES !)

The teams or their fans? I take it you mean their fans.

Their teams have won multiple Super Bowls. Unlike many of us Browns fans their unhappiness will probably be short lived and will never approach the bitterness many Brown fans will feel after watching the confetti rain down on the wrong orange uniforms.  

I'm rooting for the Rams in hopes OBJ does nothing to contribute to the win. Thats the best scenario I can think of....unless if I was a bad boy and wished OBJ broke his leg or got COVID and was inactive for the game.

@calfoxwc said:

Having said that, I really am rooting for the Bengals to win completely. I will be happy for them, and happy to not have objerk-desired commercials bragging about himself 24/7 for a few weeks after. lol

GO BENGALS ! (sqealers and ratbirds won't be happy. YES !)

And for me it's either one since if OBJ wins, that means Von Miller gets another ring and a for certain spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

@calfoxwc said:

Life is wonderful - too many aspects of life to be very Thankful for to be all in a slump over football.

I watched most games of the Browns, but I'm fine with watching them on record if we want to go fishing or camping, or helping a friend, etc.

Rooting for the Browns is fun, when they win, and when they don't, it's interesting to try to figure out why.

Recording is great ! It's a bit like doing a mock draft. Probably every pick will be wrong - it's fine - it's fun to try to figure it all out.

Being wrong on every pick, lol, doesn't affect real life. Nobody likes their team to lose- but one day...?... it will be sweeter to get to the superbowl and win it - because of all the disappointment.

Next draft - major additions to the WR position - I wonder if Landry wants to move on like objerk did.

"just wait til next year"

Having said that, I really am rooting for the Bengals to win completely. I will be happy for them, and happy to not have objerk-desired commercials bragging about himself 24/7 for a few weeks after. lol

GO BENGALS ! (sqealers and ratbirds won't be happy. YES !)

@dutch-oven said:

I have a feeling that if the Bengals - THE FUCKING CINCINNATI BENGALS - win the Super Bowl Sunday the world is going to see a lot of Browns fans really questioning everything they know about life. 

I mean, the Bengals practice in some field next to their stadium because they are too cheap to have a legit training facility. In 2021, they still don't have an indoor facility of their own to practice in. 

Yes, Mike Brown does live on the cheap... However, I'm hearing the real brains of the operation- Mike's daughter Katie Blackburn- does know a thing or two about football, and already has a big say in what goes on in Bungle Land.  

@dutch-oven said:

Very true.

It's just that the Bengals are such a bottom-of-the-barrel, thrift shop operation. 

And they are knocking on the door of winning a Super Bowl before the Browns. 

LOL, I've always said I'd rather be lucky than good. Count on them being bad enough, the QB needy Bengals to get the #1 overall no brainer pick to take Joe Burrow. Too bad there wasn't a stiff like Akilli Smith there for them to screw up on instead.  Oh, I remember their previous luck outs... Their FGs doinking off goalposts and going in, and the other team's doinking out.  Or having the sunny southern California Chargers having to play them in the Freezer Bowl with an air temperature of -9, and wind chill -58.  I have friends who were at that game, the plumbing in the rest rooms froze- I'll let you imagine what sort of mess that created.     

I'm getting pretty nauseated with Bengal fans crying, it's been 34 years... Wah, wah.  Cry me a river. Try 58.   I've said a bunch of times, you need to be Social Security age to remember 1964. I'll be at a Super Bowl party with a bunch of Bengal fans in attendance, and I'm thinking of getting a Browns jersey with #64, and on the nameplate "And Counting"...  

Finally.. Should the Browns ever make the Super Bowl, forget about ever getting a face value ticket to the game (unless there's a lottery for a few hundred tickets).  The owner of my wine shop has had season tickets to the Bengals from day one- 1969.. 50 yard line seats, two rows behind the Bengals bench....  And wasn't deemed worthy enough to get a pair of Super Bowl tickets.  FWIW, if you're a big enough fan, the Bungles were offering plane & game tickets, three nights in a LA hotel, and tailgate party... for $10,000.   

PS- From my perspective, unfortunately the game can't end in a tie... But whoever wins isn't going to make me happy.     

@canton-dawg said:

But the Rams also started out in the CLE.

Yes. Completely forgot about that.

What's also funny is that 3 of the 4 teams that never appeared in the Super Bowl... DET, HOU, and JAX, those cities all have at least hosted one.

Talk about never even smelling a SB.

@gorka said:

I was told by a Squeeler fan why not root for the bungles, both teams came from the same daddy.

But the Rams also started out in the CLE.

I don't foresee a Browns SB in the near future either.

I was told by a Squeeler fan why not root for the bungles, both teams came from the same daddy.

@calfoxwc said:

Life is wonderful - too many aspects of life to be very Thankful for to be all in a slump over football.

I watched most games of the Browns, but I'm fine with watching them on record if we want to go fishing or camping, or helping a friend, etc.

Rooting for the Browns is fun, when they win, and when they don't, it's interesting to try to figure out why.

Recording is great ! It's a bit like doing a mock draft. Probably every pick will be wrong - it's fine - it's fun to try to figure it all out.

Being wrong on every pick, lol, doesn't affect real life. Nobody likes their team to lose- but one day...?... it will be sweeter to get to the superbowl and win it - because of all the disappointment.

Next draft - major additions to the WR position - I wonder if Landry wants to move on like objerk did.

"just wait til next year"

Amen to all that. I record Browns (if I can get them) and Aggie games. I've been dealing with Aggie disappointments since the day Bear Bryant confirmed he was going to Bama. We were number 1 in the country with Heisman winner John David Crow, Jack Pardee and Charlie Krueger and proceeded to lose our last 2 regular season games and a boll game by a total of 6 points. Now I learned the lesson of Heartbreak Hotel Hell when I was then 10 years old. ?

So I record and watch the ones that won't break my football lovin' heart. LOL!! I ain't gonna be nobody's Charlie Brown doomed to have the ball yanked every time I want to kick it. ??

@orion said:

...but they have Joe Burrow........and we don't.

Very true.

It's just that the Bengals are such a bottom-of-the-barrel, thrift shop operation. 

And they are knocking on the door of winning a Super Bowl before the Browns. 

@dutch-oven said:

In 2021, they still don't have....

...but they have Joe Burrow........and we don't.

I mean, the Bengals practice in some field next to their stadium because they are too cheap to have a legit training facility. In 2021, they still don't have an indoor facility of their own to practice in. 

@brownsfaninpa said:

As a long time Browns fans, this team has had major losing seasons. Year after year we as fans support, and cheer for this team to be a great team as it once was, so long ago. It could not  get any worse after losing all 16 games several seasons ago. But  this team is looking good. After the 2020 season, and making it to the playoffs, all NFL sports anchors and reports were all cheering for the Browns. And then the start of the 2021 season. WOW, what energy, high expectations, predictions of this team going to the top. We had the offensive power and even more power on our defense. And what happened? This team struggled and just could not get a win to save their season. All of the NFL was surprised to see this team fall from grace in one season. Now its the off season and we as fans have to start over, hoping and pulling for this team to get back to their full potential and win this division. I will be cheering and hoping for a much better up coming season. And if this 2022 season becomes a losing season., then its back to saying the same old Browns, losers once again, division bottom dwellers. 

I don't think so. Perhaps only mildly surprised. These are the Browns we are talking about.

Liquor

@dutch-oven said:

I keep forgetting there's a photo of you with random black people, nickers.

So, obviously, you aren't a racist. 

My deepest apologies.

They are not random black people... They are very close friends of mine who I respect and care about... We are like brothers... Yeah.. Their skin might be dark.. But they are a great group of hard workin dudes... We all bleed the same..