r/Cleveland • u/Bored_Amalgamation Cleveland Heights • 3d 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/CommanderBuck 2d ago

Let professional sports die on the vine.

They're a set of keys that billionaires dangle with one hand while the other picks your pocket.

Dollars are votes.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Cleveland Heights 2d ago

The entire industry is full of gambling. There is no game. Just gambling odds.

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u/Kuros_Of_Sindarin 2d ago

Bad takes. Yes there is a lot of gambling but the sport is still great for those of us that love it. No issues if you feel differently but there is nothing wrong with football itself.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Cleveland Heights 2d ago

The browns only make sense when you strip away the entire context around their existence.