Category: Cleveland Browns (Page 86 of 114)

From ESPN…

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and longtime owners Art Modell and Ralph Wilson are on the preliminary list that includes five former head coaches and 11 contributors.

Why does this man still keep getting mentioned for Canton? If he ever gets in, they’d better have riot police down there for the induction.

From Roger Brown…

According to CBS Sports officials, 10 percent of the nation’s viewers will see their Browns-Houston network telecast, not bad considering the game matches two poor teams with pop-gun offenses. The 1 p.m. game airs on WOIO Channel 19.

Good lord, I could barely stand to watch last week’s game. And I’m a Browns fan! Who’s buying ads on that airtime, Trent Dilfer?

Great story in the Houston Chronicle about Browns fans. Including a kid who used to live down the street from me in Middleburg Hts., Texans 3rd string QB Dave Ragone.

Ragone, the Texans’ third-string quarterback, was born in Middleburg, Ohio, about three hours from Cleveland. He became a standout athlete at St. Ingatius High School in Cleveland. Life revolved around football. “My whole family follows the Browns,” Ragone said. “They’ve always followed them.”

Umm, that would be Middleburg HEIGHTS, Ohio, fellas. Ragone isn’t so much of a Browns fan anymore, apparently, but Reliant Stadium is expecting a lot of Browns fans.

“Cleveland fans are crazy for their team,” said cornerback Lewis Sanders, who spent his first five years in the NFL at Cleveland before joining the Texans this season. “That tradition is what makes the team so special. All you’d ever hear about was the Dawg Pound. They love their team.”

Yeah. We love our team. Even when they stink up the place.

…had better be on Trent Dilfer.

Browns quarterback Trent Dilfer will start Sunday’s game against winless Houston after getting the “benefit of the doubt” from Cleveland coach Romeo Crennel.

The first interception certainly qualifies for a yanking. First two series without a 1st down? How about 6 incompletions in a row? No TD’s at the half?

Roger Brown points out that the “official” moniker doesn’t always get a fan’s attention.

The team’s Monday night “players’ show” on Channel 19 recently finished sixth in its rating period – even trailing dusty sitcom reruns on other stations.

I stopped paying attention to these “official” Browns broadcasts so long ago, the last one I saw might have been one with Webster Slaughter on it. I guess the team has to do this stuff, but it just rings so pathetically hollow. And when the team is losing, no one wants to hear it.