Category: Cleveland Browns

Cleveland Rocks

By Blaidd Drwg

A little nugget from the “Strange but True” column by Jason Stark on December 30th:

Speaking of Cleveland, the Indians played an April 20 game in which they took a 14-0 lead on the Astros. The Strange But True part involves the local football team, the Browns, who haven’t held a 14-0 lead in any of their past 96 games!

In case you are following at home, that is 6 seasons worth of games. The last time that the Browns had a 14-0 lead on an opponent – December 30, 2007, exactly 6 years to the day that the column ran. It was also the last game of the season and the last time the Browns finished a season with a winning record.

Cleveland Browns Fan To Sue NFL

By Blaidd Drwg

I saw on ESPN that a Cleveland Browns fan is suing the team and the NFL for breach of contract for his personal seat license.

The heart of the lawsuit is this:

Lanci claimed that the lockout denies him the right under the personal seat licenses to go to Browns games and has destroyed the value of the seat-license agreement.

Hey guys. Does Cleveland still rock?

A couple of questions:
1) With the level of futility that the Browns have displayed since their return to the NFL, do they have anyone willing to admit they are still, in fact, a Browns fan?
2) Wouldn’t the value of the seat-license agreement have been further destroyed if the team actually PLAYED another full NFL season?

I know a Browns season ticket holder and they are a die-hard fan. I think they would agree the team being awful has hurt the value of the seats more then the lockout ever would. People in Cleveland wouldn’t go to games toward the end of last year because the team was so bad, would they even notice a lockout?

Will There Be A New Coach In Cleveland?

By Blaidd Drwg

Seneca Wallace on the possibility of Mike Holmgren returning to coaching:

“I kind of do just because things probably haven’t turned out the way he wanted on offense and being an offensive guy, I think he still has that itch to come back to coach,”

If Mike Holmgren really wants to coach again, and I always did believe that he had every intention of eventually making himself head coach of the Browns when he took the President of Football Operations job with them, he is going to do it.

Holmgren and Mangini have a meeting about the future of the Cleveland Browns on Monday. I would be willing to bet the mortgage payment that Mike Mangini is out of a job by the end of a week (especially in light of the thrashing that the Browns took this week) and Holmgren becomes head coach sometime in the next few weeks, right after the Browns pretend to interview a couple of candidates.

–UPDATED 3:20 PM – it didn’t even take to the end of the week – Mangini is out of a job.