Brownie Points: What It Means to Be a Cleveland Brown

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Published: August 22, 2009

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... watch our team play on Sunday afternoons.

We have suffered through the snarky comments of co-workers and the condescension of wagon-jumping fans of every stripe.

We have vehemently attacked the team on local sports talk radio shows for being incompetent and disorganized, while defending them on national shows from outsiders who say the same thing.

To each other, we say we're used to the the losing.

But we're not.

To ourselves, we say we no longer care if the team wins.

But we do.

We get frustrated when players who are supposed to represent us don't seem to get it, and when they seem more interested in inflating their egos or pointing their fingers.

We want to yell at them, to tell them to play like a Brown, and to tell them that it should mean something when they put on that orange helmet and those brown jerseys.

Because it means something to us.

We want to tell them to play like Otto Graham and Brian Si...

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