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The Las Vegas Browns
Each year around this time we have to ask ourselves the question, does Northeast Ohio really need an NFL team?
Come on man you know it's true. This return of the Cleveland Browns thing that started in 1999 is a failed experiment. The team has been burning through coaches, quarterbacks, money and respect at an unsustainable rate. There's no end in sight to this misery and bringing in another coach won't make a difference. Bill Cowher left the league on top of his game. Why would he want risk his legacy by coming this "coaching graveyard", the Diamond Shoals of the AFC North?
Our massive investment in public dollars and human capital has not yielded a return on investment worthy of continuing the tradition of Cleveland football. It doesn't take Roldo writing the same article thirty-seven times to get that point across. There must be some large metro area drooling over the prospect of having an NFL team. They can have ours if the price is right. The agreement between the City and the Browns would have to be changed and the outstanding debt on the stadium would have to be retired.
It will not be easy letting go but the decision will give us all a clean break and the gift of starting over. There will be no team here but the Cleveland Browns diaspora has always been robust in all parts of the country so it doesn't really matter where they end up. What we'll be left with is the world's largest Browns Backers Club.
Maybe we can lure the Columbus Crew to our city. We'll have a natural turf stadium available.
Come on man you know it's true. This return of the Cleveland Browns thing that started in 1999 is a failed experiment. The team has been burning through coaches, quarterbacks, money and respect at an unsustainable rate. There's no end in sight to this misery and bringing in another coach won't make a difference. Bill Cowher left the league on top of his game. Why would he want risk his legacy by coming this "coaching graveyard", the Diamond Shoals of the AFC North?
Our massive investment in public dollars and human capital has not yielded a return on investment worthy of continuing the tradition of Cleveland football. It doesn't take Roldo writing the same article thirty-seven times to get that point across. There must be some large metro area drooling over the prospect of having an NFL team. They can have ours if the price is right. The agreement between the City and the Browns would have to be changed and the outstanding debt on the stadium would have to be retired.
It will not be easy letting go but the decision will give us all a clean break and the gift of starting over. There will be no team here but the Cleveland Browns diaspora has always been robust in all parts of the country so it doesn't really matter where they end up. What we'll be left with is the world's largest Browns Backers Club.
Maybe we can lure the Columbus Crew to our city. We'll have a natural turf stadium available.
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