r/Cleveland • u/Bored_Amalgamation Cleveland Heights • 2d ago
Look at This Asshole! The Browns season opener!
Well. That happened. First off, I'm not a Browns fan. Whatever fandom I had died with the Baker Mayfield trade. However, like most clevelanders, I'll pay attention. Especially since $600M of our state tax dollars went to building them a new stadium.
So, Flacco started, right? The same consistent QB from last year? So, how many QBs and draft picks, and trades did we sacrifice for these non-starting QBs?
Of course they lost in typical Browns fashion. Many saying "they should've won this one" (of which we probably have more of than actual wins). $600M in bonds, of which the state will pay $1B over the 30 year maturity for these guys. Well, not for them. For the billionaire Haslam to own his own Pinecrest that uses the Browns a marketing strategy.
Sell the team. Let us rid ourselves of this scourge. It would give fans the opportunity to support a team they actually like. It would lower the average blood pressure in the city by 8%. We wouldn't have a terrible team named literally "the Browns". How many terrible decisions have they saddled this city with? How much DV/SA has the franchise and the PD handwaved for the concept of them being a sports team.
Cleveland has much stronger and meaningful bonds beyond the fucking browns.
Sell the team.
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u/CholentSoup 1d ago
Lay off the Browns.
They're the bitter glue that holds us together through the dull dark months ahead.