Torture on the Cuyahoga, Part 2
Last week, we told you about a long-suffering Cleveland sports fan's cry for help. This week, after the Browns managed to be even worse in week three than in the first two weeks of the season, some fans have begun circulating a petition inviting the team's owner to sell the franchise. Sure enough, others are circulating a counter-petition, asking owner Randy Lerner to ignore those other fans. If you happen to be among those who believe petition drives have any effect in the real world (I'm not, alas) perhaps this gives you a glimmer of hope for your team. The rest of us will just quietly lick our wounds and go about our business, as usual. Perhaps our favorite Argentinian reader, Mariana, can give us a more hopeful update about her favorite soccer team.
UPDATE: A new Sports Illustrated columnist (and Cleveland-area native) wonders aloud: is new Browns coach Eric Mangini the worst hire ever?
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Maybe it would help if they changed the team's name to LeBrowns.
At this point, anything would help.
Browns 0-3, in disarray. Wedge and staff, gone. But--we got Shaq and Lebron!
Hope the Cavs will be enough to keep your kids from crying again. On the other hand, the Delonte West situation is a cause for concern. It's never easy with Clev sports.
Y'all might could do what we do down here in North Cackalacky and just pay attention to college sports.
Britta, if we were somehow endowed with the equivalent in college hoops of having both Duke and North Carolina in our backyards (and of course there is no equivalent of those double powerhouses in the same region anywhere) we'd no doubt follow your lead. In football, Northeast Ohio is indeed a prime area for Buckeye Nation, but for the last several years, the Ohio State football team has been breaking hearts with the same regularity of Cleveland's professional teams. So it's actually added to that epic frustration rather than provided a psychic balm.
Delonte. Now there's a blog post. What in the world could he have been thinking? A rifle in a guitar case and 2 other guns, driving thru DC (where isn't that a felony)?
He wasn't thinking. And that whole excuse about his bipolar problem is beginning to wear a bit thin. Depression is one thing, but being armed to the teeth is quite another.
I hear you, John. It's just crazy. And it's such Cleveland luck.
The endless agony of Cleveland sports fans.
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