Around the NFL: Browns window of ending misery to Steelers could be opening
By Steve Doerschuk
CantonRep.com staff writer
If a team builds through the draft ... If the building superintendent has a clue ...
If Tom Heckert’s three offseasons of rounding up a new roster is to bear fruit ...
It’s just about time for the Browns to catch up to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
It has been time.
On Sept. 17, 2000, rookie No. 1 overall pick Courtney Brown sacked Steelers quarterback Kent Graham on the last play of the game to seal a 23-20 Browns win.
Since then, Cleveland’s record in the Pittsburgh series is 2-22.
Some things are half past pathetic — 2-22 is much worse than that.
The concept of catching up to Pittsburgh began turning into a manifestation within the last half year.
On Dec. 8 at Pittsburgh, the Browns had a first-and-goal late in the fourth quarter, trailing 7-3.
On Jan. 1 in Cleveland, they led Pittsburgh 6-3 at halftime and lost 13-9.
Defeats, yes. But this wasn’t the same as getting their ears boxed on Christmas Eve, 2006, the day no Browns fans were left to see James Harrison spike a drunken fan who staggered across the field.
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Ahhhh, hope truly does spring eternal... even in the most unlikely of places. Cleveland being one of those places. Keep on dreaming Brownie fans. There are only 3 things in life that are guaranteed.... death, taxes, and the Pittsburgh Steelers kicking the shit out of your Brownstains twice a year!
It's OK, though, Cleveland-ites. You can keep drinking that orange Kool-Aid all you want, but be warned that Mike Holmgren is your Reverend Jim Jones and he's building your "Eden" in his imagination. How do you expect to begin gaining ground on the greatest franchise in professional sports when you draft a bust for a QB every other year and allow him to be shellshocked by our dominating defense before moving on to draft the next sacrificial lamb?
Poor Browns fans. You really have to feel some pity for them considering their team actually plays in Baltimore after they couldn't keep them in town. Now they are saddled with a punch-line of a team wearing the same colors masquerading as the Browns and an NFL caliber team when they clearly aren't. It kind of reminds me of when they made the prequel to the movie "Dumb and Dumber", "Dumb and Dumberer", with the different actors playing the lead roles. Yeah, they were still dumb as bricks, but on a whole different level of stupid and much worse in entertainment value.
Well, maybe a couple more curb-stompings of monumental proportions this season by the Steelers will finally convince the Browns fans to put down the tainted Kool-Aid, admit they were wrong, and leave their suicide-cult for the greener pastures of the Cincinnati Bengals. At least they give their fans hope once every decade with a decent season and a playoff appearance before they crush their fans' souls by choking in a big game. Better to have loved and lost.......
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