Browns win and update:

Interesting week to be a Browns fan.

First GM Mike Lombardi trades one of our best players (Trent Richardson, quite possibly our biggest weapon on offense) for a potentially good draft pick but a potentially meh one. Then we hear that Lombardi is probably going to trade one or two of our starting Wide Receivers for a 'significant offer', which means absolutely nothing. And finally we discover a player Lombardi has been drooling over for years (Bryan Hoyer, a guy the rest of the league feels is average on his best day) is named the starting Quarterback.

All the news stories come out that the Browns are tanking the season for a shot at a good Quarterback in the draft. And the fans, myself included, were more than a little irritated. Then the Browns do what nobody expected them to do.

They actually won a game.

It wasn't perfect... in fact, it wasn't pretty. But a win is a win and it was nice to see my guys pull it out in the end.

Between the game, hours at the gym, and a dozen hours of homework, I was way too busy on Sunday/Monday. Even so, I managed to get a bunch of progress done on my two projects and finished reading The Hot Gate by John Ringo. Probably my most productive day in months.

Now to make Tuesday even better!

NFL Week 2

The first week of the NFL season flew by. The last game was absolutely winnable and the Browns blew it. I’ve been saying that same sentence over and over for the past five years and something tells me I’ll be saying it a lot more this year. The Dolphins offense failed to distance themselves thanks to some impressive defense on the part of the good guys. Of course, their offense was much better than the pitiful effort the Browns put forward (horrific line play on the right side and what happened to T-Rich?) so yeah. As the kids say today, “Epic fail.”

While my Browns had a disappointing first week, they face the sluggish Baltimore Ravens tomorrow. The sluggish Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens, I should say. A team who was embarrassed on opening night, has had an additional 3 days to prepare, is in a bad mood, and is 21-7 against the Cleveland since the Browns were reborn.

This is going to be painful isn’t it?

NFL Kickoff

I’m a huge Cleveland Browns fan and have been since I was about 6 years old. Unfortunately for me, the Browns have had no success at all the past couple decades. And by none I mean, as close to zero as possible. Yet I still approach every year as most Browns fans do; with stupid amounts of hope that this year might be the year.

You know, the year the team actually has a winning record.

This year features a new coaching staff, new ownership, and new philosophy in gameplanning. However, all the experts are expecting one thing to remain the same: the Browns will lose more games than they win.

Probably. Okay, it’s likely.

I hate to admit the truth about the team but it’s okay, I’ll still be watching the game every Sunday.  We’ve still got Joe Thomas, T-Rich, and Joe Haden. And while I know the chances are good I’ll spend more days in a funk due to a loss than I will in ecstasy due to a win, at least I will enjoy watching my team play every week.

Football is about fun, after all. And if it stops being fun I’ll stop watching it.