It could always be worse
Remember, less than a year ago, during the season even, when it seemed like maybe the Browns might have finally turned a corner? Now the savior gimmick QB looks like a possible huge bust and is in rehab. They may have alienated their average but loyal hometown hero QB. Their star WR is a complete dumbass. Their GM is getting in trouble for texting. The whole organization is a problem, and the owner is still a dishonest criminal. Every time they make a change there is hope, and then not long after that the fans start saying “well if they can just fix this one thing”…and then something new takes it’s place. The never ending cycle of poorly run organizations.
Maybe one day the Browns won’t be the pity station of every other fanbase. Maybe one day their fans can feel proud, and not hate the fact that the rest of us pity them so. Maybe one day it’ll finally turn around. I’ve drawn so many comics about the Browns being bad that even I wish they’d be good so I could stop drawing them as I feel like I’m now repeating myself. 15 years. 15 years they’ve been at this. This year they finally looked average and had their best start in so long…and it all came unraveled even harder than normal in some ways.
I hope Nike doesn’t screw up their uniforms this year as rumors are suggesting. I love the Browns uniforms.
Like most things with the Browns, I’m very split on the uniforms. I agree that there needs to be some changes and I guess one of the conditions Randy Lerner sold the team under is that Haslam could never put a logo on the helmet or stray too far from its original design. I think what we’ll see is a modernized form of the original design. If they deviate too much, they won’t sell. I have also read that they will change the shade of orange from burnt to something similar to what Oregon State wears. I would like to see letters put on the sleeve again like they did with Al Lerner’s initials, but have Paul Brown’s instead. I like that about Chicago’s. It’d be a good way to link to a new looking uniform to the past Along with the helmet. I would be in favor of doing something like Ohio State does for rivalry games as an alternate. Have bronze and copper metallic hues. Other than that, the new unis are the only thing I can get excited about. Even the draft makes me nervous considering Farmer’s track record so far. If they move up to draft a QB in the first round, I’d expect to find a bunch of bloated bodies in Manziel jerseys to wash up on the shores of Lake Erie the next day.
Seriously, what is WRONG with Josh Gordon? He must be either too stubborn or too stupid to learn from these mistakes, and what’s worse is the fact thathe can’t really live these down. Not to mention Sapp, a HOFer got arrested having done what he did with a prostitute. You’re an NFL Network analyst and I’m sure MANY little kids watch it, and you do a taboo as terrible as that? It’s sickening. Seems like most hood players are terrible people off the field. It’s a shame. Get your act together already, guys.
An interesting article, written by the Josh Gordon himself.
https://medium.com/the-cauldron/an-open-letter-to-charles-barkley-co-cb5c4e64cf3
Considering he’s still sticking to the flimsy “It was only secondhand marijuana smoke!” explanation, I question the validity of his justifications. I also question how on earth either he or his coaches could be dumb enough not to have the end date of his probation made explicitly clear multiple times.
You barely dodge a year-long suspension, you’re staring down the barrel of another one if you screw up, and this one will take away your contract year, meaning you’re going into free agency on the back of three straight seasons with significant suspensions, and the last season you played you barely cobble together 300 yards without a single touchdown? If you don’t have that date circled on your calendar in red letters where you’re free and off of probation, you’re a moron. Plain and simple. If I’m a coach or a GM, fact that he had neither the excitement to be free nor the intelligence to make sure he knew exactly when it was safe to imbibe again tells me I cannot trust this guy not to make dumb decisions off the field. And Gordon nails it on the head himself in the article; “It doesn’t matter if I thought that the league-imposed restriction on drinking had expired at the end of the regular season; what matters is that I didn’t confirm whether or not that was the case.”
Also, I question someone saying they don’t have a problem when it’s a repeated pattern of behavior. You were kicked out of Baylor because of substance abuse. You missed two games in your banner 2013 because of substance abuse. You missed eleven games and almost missed a full season in 2014 because of substance abuse, and now you’re missing all of 2015 because of substance abuse. Actions speak louder than words, and Gordon can deny this or that, but his track record speaks for itself.
I feel like Gordon has a convenient excuse for all of his screw ups. Oh, the League’s policy is absurdly strict, oh, if the tester had tested the other cup of pee he’d be fine, oh, he was just .1 over the legal limit.
I was on his side last year, but after a certain point you just cant give the man the benefit of the doubt anymore.
…I meant good, not hood. Typos…
I was ready to jump onto the Cleveland bandwagon and enjoy finally seeing the Browns be kind of alright, maybe even make the playoffs. 6-3, who can screw that up?! But they managed to find a way, going 1-6 the rest of the year. This year has proven what we all knew to an extent before: the Browns will always find a way to fuck everything up.
they actually got into the hard part of their schedule after that 6-3 start. Their wins came against
New Orleans
Tenn.
Pitt
Oakland
Tampa
Cinci
Atlanta
only 2 to write home about where Cinci (because of how they dominated on TNF) and Pitt. other than that, none of the other teams they beat had a winning record.
So basically this team was the ’95 Browns all over again, sans the move to Baltimore(Big hype over a hot start against weak teams only to collapse once real competition shows its face)?
Damn, now I’m sad. The Sadness Infection spreads!
It’s true. I want the Browns to go 14-2, and I’m a Raven’s fan.
As a Steelers fan I can 100% honestly say that if Browns made it to the Super Bowl they’d be the only team besides the Steelers from the North i’d root for.
Even though the Browns have been doing this for 15 years, the Jags have been doing it for almost as long and they had just come off of an AFCCG appearance in 1999.
The Jags were just 8 games under .500 from ’00 to ’10. It’s from ’11 onward that they’ve been putrid.
And in 2007 they got to the Divisional Round of the playoffs after knocking out the Steelers!
So, does this mean Sapp can’t talk shit on Suh anymore? Can he come down off his high horse? And those poor Browns. It’s a train wreck every year, but you can never stop watching.
Sapp hasn’t been able to talk shit about anyone for a while, but he’s just going to anyway. But with each mistake less and less people will listen to him until eventually he’s just another asshole talking shit to his lone friend at the bar.
Hey I’m that guy! Lol
My neighbor’s a Cubs fan. Who is also a Browns fan. But he supports the Blackhawks too, so I guess his sports life isn’t ALL sad. Some Mondays though, I feel like knocking on his door, making sure he hasn’t died of alcohol poisoning from the latest Browns loss.
Cubs fans really don’t get depressed though. Whenever they win a game, the fans just get confused. When the Cubs finally win a world series (probably in the year 3029) there will be huge numbers of Cubs fans who just lost their entire identity when it comes to baseball. It will be dark days in Chicago and they will somehow end up setting Wisconsin on fire.
You don’t know how it feels… to be meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
::smashes whiskey bottle against the wall::
It’s really hard to not root for the Browns. Who really hates them? I mean, yeah, the front office seems to have no clue how to run the team successfully. But besides that, it’s hard to root against them. The fan base has suffered enough. I can’t wish them any more pain. And yet, somehow, things just have to hit a new low for them seemingly every year.
This is how bad it has gotten. Two of our main rivals, the Steelers and Ravens fans, want us to win because of the amount of pity they feel for us. They can’t bring themselves to hate us anymore, because we’re not worth hating. I do appreciate the pity, but we will know that things have turned around and that we are back when our division rivals are saying, “God, I hate those guys.” If that ever happens……
This why my user name is “The Brown Down.” I’m a Giants fan and I want the Browns to do well! They are like a sad eye puppy left in the rain!
After seeing a lot of Browns fans reactions to their modicum of success this year I’m glad they suck and I hope they suck for a long time to come. I’ve never seen so much trash talk from a ca base over a 6-3/7-4 squad.
Do you not know any Cowboy fans? Just curious, don’t want to start anything.
I knew this was a Browns comic from panel one. Oh, being born in NE Ohio….
Also, about the Unis: Jim Brown once called our uniform “The Yankee pinstripes of football” It would be a shame to destroy that kind of heritage. I was watching the Super Bowl and I was checking out the Seahawks uniforms. I live in Seattle, and I looked at one of the 21 year old Hawk fans. I said
“The Browns are getting their uniforms redone this year by the same people that did the Seahawks jerseys. I’m worried”
“Why”, she said. “I like the Seahawks jerseys”
And it was in that minute that I knew what we had in Cleveland. I truly grokked the gravity of how new the fan-base in Seattle is, and how hallowed and traditional the fan-base in Cleveland is. Paul Brown help us.
“I love the Browns uniforms”
“Hitler had some good ideas”
“Red is the same as green”
“Up is down”
“I am wrong”