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Brady has proved nuthin'

Submitted by Dan Coughlin on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 4:20pm

I don't know if Brady Quinn is the guy to pin the Browns' future upon. Against the Steelers he was less than mediocre. He's surrounded by bush leaguers, of course, and an amateur offense. I'll be long dead before this organization rises above the level of embarrassment.

Cleveland has enriched the NFL immensely. The other owners got about $18 million each, which was their individual shares of the $535 million expansion fee Al Lerner paid for the team. Then we paid for a new stadium and handed it over to Lerner and the NFL.

What did we get in return?

Dung.

Dan Coughlin Talks Browns, HS Football Championship and Much More

Submitted by Dan Coughlin on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 5:09pm

Lotta things to cover. I'll do it quickly.

The Browns scored nine points in the last two minutes to make the score look close against San Diego Sunday because the Chargers relaxed and had some defensive backups in there. The Browns scored only seven points when the Chargers were serious.

When I was driving to Channel 8 in the afternoon to anchor the Sunday night shows, there was virtually no traffic headed into town. In the old days there would be traffic jams on the Innerbelt Bridge an hour before the game, lined up to exit at Ontario and E. Ninth St. None of that this past Sunday. Then I saw why. The Stadium was only half-filled. They called it a sellout. What a charade! Tickets may have been sold but went unused. They couldn't even give them away.

A Quiet Sunday. Could Be a Habit.

Submitted by Dan Coughlin on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 10:30am

I heard a lot of jokes about the Browns' bye week. My favorite was John Telich's line: "The Browns were 20-point underdogs to bye week."

It was genuinely pleasant not having to worry about them. As painful as it is, in our racket we must watch because we might have to talk about them.

The Browns are sadder than a country song and after reading Randy Lerner's exclusive email interview with Tony Grossi in The Plain Dealer last week I have not one iota of hope. Randy is a very nice person, very likeable, but the poor fellow is clueless about football and he admits it.

Quit Whining and Enjoy the Music

Submitted by Dan Coughlin on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 3:02pm

I wanted to write this a couple of days ago, but my damnable machine locked me out of my own blog. I hate this damn thing. I truly do. I yearn for the good old days when I wrote my story on a mechanical Underwood or Royal typewriter that went tappetty-tap as each letter was imprinted on paper. Then I would personally hand that paper to a copy editor who would use a pencil to correct any typos before rolling it up into a cannister and sending it up a vacuum tube to the composing room where it would be set in lead type on a Linotype machine that went clackety-clack.