I couldn't come in yesterday during the game. It was too painful for you watching for me to come in and jerk you guys around about it.

You deserve better. If you team brought half the passion to this week that you all do, it would have been a brawl and close.

I truly do hope your Brownies get it together.

I'll still root for the Steelers to beat 'em each time out... and I'll LOVE it if I get to see Mike "we had to beat the Steelers and the refs" Holmgren is at the helm... but just like those baseball nuts in Denver earned a MLB team by frigidly going

hogwild for their minor league team, you guy should have never suffered Modell's betrayal and you shouldn't have to wait any longer for it to start to gel. Hell, you've raged and rallied for Couch, Romeo, Quinn et al... that alone should get you a medal.

I'll likely see you next "Steelers Week", in the meantime, have a good year in your Brown and Orange tinted lives away from the forum. (I am trusting this ain't all there is to it :^)

May this year be the one you all day dream fondly about when you're 98 years old.

Phil's been class. It always sucks when this happens.

Go with McCoy. He's shown more poise since getting thrown in there than either of the last two great hope (DA and BQ). You've gotta give him a shot.

He was a warrior. I hope they figure out some medical tech stuff to help him beofre the "brain abnormalities" start to slow him way too young.

Good luck, Jamal.

Pops

The cool thing about it that your team will feel like champs. Say the Steelers continue to own 'em, go 20-1 against the Brownies for the next 10 years (and this year's remaining beatdown).

That one win for the Browns, even if it comes in the middle of a 1-15 season (which, with Mangini, is possible) is gonna feel like your guys hit Mazeroski's homer in the 9th against the dreaded Yanks to win the series.

For the Steelers the other 20 wins will just feel, well, expected.

Pops

You Underdawgs must feel like the world is stacked against you when even the referees turn out to be Steelers fans. You got screwed on that call.

And you got screwed by Modell, Couch, Winslow, The Drive, Bradshaw, Ben, your sorry city, fate... hell, you have to speak of Bernie Never-Won-Anything Kosar in the same reverent tones that real teams reserve for the Montanas, Namaths and Aikmans of their past. It's a shame.

I applaud your dedicated fandom.

But you really should put up an over/under poll on whiny threads about cheating the day before the game so we can at least have someone benefit from your stale luck.

Pops

Wait until after the asskickery the Steelers unleash on that scoring powerhouse of a dysfunctional team you've got, then quietly ask him where you can get one?

Pops

WHY ARE THE BROWNS BAD?

'Cause it's not 1962?

Pops

SI.COM

The Cleveland Browns, in hope of returning to the NFL, today declared their eligibility for the NFL draft. "We've gotten quite an education so far, but we're not really known for finishing anytyhing, so we thought now would be a good time for this," said Cleveland's secondary owner Randy Lerner. Primary Browns owner The Pittsburgh Steelers were unavailable for comment, as they're once again readying for another Super Bowl.

The Browns are apparently hopeful that by declaring for the draft, they'll be able to catch on with some team and be back in the NFL much quicker than the projected 2018 timetable new coach Eric "Leave 'em laughin'" Mangini has articulated.

SI's experts project that one of the teams might take a gamble on the Browns in the later rounds, but note that their may be contractual problems as they're already owned by another NFL team.

Of course he's ugly, he's from Ohio. Inbreeding makes 'em strong, but it takes a toll on the ol' grill.

But you've got a mirror, ATEANARSE, you know that.

Pops

@bigbrownsfan said:

How's Steve Courson these days? Oh, my bad...

Steve's as dead as your football franchise's 1950s glory days.

Pops

How many years has Gaydee Quinn been around? Two?

That would be a Rookie of the Year Award and a Super Bowl Ring for Ben.

I understand your angst... but try to pretend your from someplace civilized and not celebrate when a kid gets carted off on a stretcher.

Pops

@flugel said:

A REAL man would have gotten back in the huddle and taken a couple of advil at halftime, french-kissed me and promised to play bunstretcher with me, just like my Uncle Sal used to, after everyone else had gone home.

Here's how we'll sum up the Candyass someday: Made in China - played in Pittsburgh

Wouldn't it be: Made in China - played in Pittsburgh - and owned Cleveland like an ugly pet. ??

What is he, 10-0 against your sorry franchise?

Pops

ps ATE AN ARSE, I knew someone would be totally classless about a player who got carted off and I was pretty sure it would be you. I shoulda found someone to make a bet with.

Pittsburgh (UPI)

In voting in the Pittsburgh area, Steeler's coach Mike Tomlin, who has led his team to yet another division title and the number two seed in the upcoming playoffs, was narrowly edged by Cleveland's Romeo Crennel for Coach of the Year honors.

Local house painter Jerry "Livin' Large" Lampings was asked why he chose Crennel and responded "Three reasons: one, it's nothin' special for Tomlin to win the division. That happens every year in these parts. Two, Crennel's done a stellar job of taking Cleveland's team down the toilet. Actually, it's worse than a toilet, more like Lake Erie. They haven't scored a touchdown since the fall foliage changed colors. And Third, we're a gregarious lot here in the 'burgh. This was pretty much the only way Cleveland was gonna win anything this year, so we pushed for it out of a sense of charity." Crennel will receive a case of Iron City Beer, a Terrible Towel and, hopefully, a contract extension.

Bill got his NFL diapers here, and now--even though he's considered the top coach to be had--he's agreed to potty train and learn how to flush his shot at the Hall of Fame down the coach's toilet that is Lake Erie's finest.

Pop

Steeler's Parker's upset that, with a sorry O-line and no fullback, his injury plagued season may result in his first under-a-thousand-yards season in four years.

The grace note is that he's facing the Browns this Sunday and, having compiled 673 yards on the ground through 15 games, still has a solid shot at 1000 before game's end.

Pops

One of Ateanarse's finest moments!

Pops

If Lerner promised RAC would stay, the Steelers would throw the game.

Have a great Christmas all of you...

Pops

@ghoolie said:

I am going to the game Sunday. I will knock out every last tooth from any Steeler fan who thinks they are a bad ass.

I don't care who it is, I will even smack the shit out of a woman should one of those immense lard asses open their pie hole.

4 - 11, Arrrrrrrrg

I am so pissed I could go to Berea with a bazooka and backhoe.

That's great. The 200 Browns fans who show up will get to watch the Browns get their asses kicked by the Steelers' practice squad and as a bonus they'll get to see you get your ass kicked by a chick in Steelers shirt.

Keep your beer muscles in check... your townies are discouraged enough as is.

Pops

Pittsburgh (UPI)

In voting in the Pittsburgh area, Steeler's coach Mike Tomlin, who has led his team to yet another division title and the number two seed in the upcoming playoffs, was narrowly edged by Cleveland's Romeo Crennel for Coach of the Year honors.

Local house painter Jerry "Livin' Large" Lampings was asked why he chose Crennel and responded "Three reasons: one, it's nothin' special for Tomlin to win the division. That happens every year in these parts. Two, Crennel's done a stellar job of taking Cleveland's team down the toilet. Actually, it's worse than a toilet, more like Lake Erie. They haven't scored a touchdown since the fall foliage changed colors. And Third, we're a gregarious lot here in the 'burgh. This was pretty much the only way Cleveland was gonna win anything this year, so we pushed for it out of a sense of charity." Crennel will receive a case of Iron City Beer, a Terrible Towel and, hopefully, a contract extension.