My most basic reason for following sports is for the enjoyment of an entertaining diversion. I do not delude myself: I know that none of my Cleveland teams are very good; my pet saying continues to be, “it’s a process”. I follow closely enough to possess some level of knowledge; much of that comes from reading the articles and forums on this website. I don’t begrudge our local casual fans- as long as they don’t jump on the bandwagon of the Pittsburgh Steelers. At its essence, following sports is for whatever you want it for- hopefully, enjoyment is part of the equation.
The world has to turn, I get that. And when the world has to turn, the NFL has to play, I get that too. No one, least of all me, expected anything as important as football to really stop so that we can all pause and ponder the violent country we live in, a country where mass murder occurs with such frequency anymore that we've become as numb to it as another Cleveland Browns loss. We didn't stop for 9/11. We aren't going to stop for innocent children massacred by a mad man in an idyllic Connecticut town. The Cleveland Browns played on Sunday and lost in spectacular fashion. I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter. The outcome of the game will set the stage for another housecleaning in a facility that knows nothing but housecleaning and I'm still pretty sure it doesn't matter. So numbed am I by the events on Friday that it was hard enough to muster up enthusiasm for the game, let alone for figuring out once again what went wrong with the Browns.
Useless nuggets of information from Sunday’s Browns game that you can certainly live without…
The new, updated NFL Playoff scenarios are in! The way I read it, if the Bengals team plane crashes into the Steelers team plane, and the ensuing debris field wipes out the Ravens training facility in Owings Mills, MD, well, Roger Goodell would have almost no choice but to put the Browns in as the AFC Central champs!! There’s still a chance!! Sure, it depends a lot on the whimsy of air traffic controllers, but still!!!
Hmm. The new System, HERO (Hutchison Egotistical Rambling Orifice), has netted me a losing record the last two weeks now. One week, sure, probably just Pagan Gods avenging themselves on me. But two? Huh. Makes you wonder if maybe games can't always be accurately predicted by math.