Maybe, it’s just because we haven’t gotten over the move. Maybe it’s the blood on Ray Lewis’s hands, or at least his suit. But, maybe enough time has passed. Did Browns fans, the ones that find a way to make every happening in the NFL rotate around Cleveland Browns football, find themselves rooting for Peyton Manning and the Broncos last weekend?
To a further extent, were we okay with John Elway’s team having their day in the sun once again, even if Elway was in a suite, wearing a suit. It’s been a while since Bud Carson’s last playoff game, and even longer since the more popular games Browns-Broncos games that featured “The Fumble” and “The Drive”, but the result was always the same. The Denver Broncos would go on to lose the Super Bowl every time, while Browns fans wondered why the universe kept doing them like that.
Were we to gain peace of mind from those humiliating Super Bowl losses that Elway and Dan Reeves, his head coach, would go on to experience? We could play the hypothetical game with those Bronco Super Bowl losses either way; would it have been worth the while, just to lose the Super Bowl, or we would have played a lot better than Denver on the big stage, right? No matter how you approach it, it’s a circular conversation that ends with reality hitting us in the face; the Browns have never played in a game branded the Super Bowl, a branding that began in 1966.
Before he officially took over as the new owner of the Cleveland Browns, Jimmy Haslam III went on a tour to visit his soon-to-be partners in the money printing business better known as the NFL. With the hiring of Rob Chudzinski as the new head coach, it's apparent what Haslam learned on that tour: it's more important to hire a guy that looks like he has that new car smell then one who actually does.
What a glorious week! The Browns identified an elite head coaching candidate that no one else in the NFL had even considered on Tuesday, and two days later they locked him up to run the team! What a coup! All that misinformation regarding the cowardly Chip Kelly and some sham interviews with guys like Ken Whisenhunt and Mike Zimmer to throw teams off their scent and then, BAM!!, the Browns had the courage and creativity to hire as head coach the same guy they fired as offensive coordinator just four years ago. Talk about misdirection!
No one knows if this is going to work.
I had planned on writing a fantastic article this week (as opposed to the planning to fail that most people employ), but I am now on a double-dose of Valium and Vicodin due to a small procedure I had today to ensure that I will never again sire a child, so the world is fuzzy/hazy/sleepy.