satur9poet's Blog

    It's amazing to watch: Every year, hopeful Browns fans march into the stadium convinced that this team is going to win, and go home heartbroken. It's nice to dream, isn't it? Why fans believe this year will yield the "Dream Team" is beyond me. When I need comic relief, I watch a Browns game. Today's loss to Pittsburgh was expected. The way the Browns played was comical! 

    The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again expecting a different result. Cleveland fans must  enjoy the insanity of loss after loss year after year yet expect a Super Bowl team. Sorry, but that "Dream Team" played here long before I was born, so all I know is 1.) a city without a football team and 2.) a city with a laughable football team.

    It seems the Browns, certain uncouth fans, and the city of Cleveland are made for each other. It's a fitting match: some less-refined fans come to a decaying city in to turn Browns Stadium into Bumpkinland and rain glass beer bottles down on players, thereby changing container policy across the country. They are nasty and threatening to fans of opposing teams, believing the Browns to be the best team in the world while they bumble around on the field attempting to play the game. Because of this, I have never set foot in that stadium and never plan to. And I'm a Clevelander!

    It makes me sad when people get their hopes up of even a decent football season here, but what have we come to expect? The same goes for the city of Cleveland as a whole. It's the same old same old, the beat goes on. The Browns lose on Opening Day: move along, there's nothing to see here. Crime, poverty and joblessness continue here and city officials fiddle while Rome burns. Move along, nothing to see here. After getting my education I'll be moving far from this abismal city and it's equally abismal football team.

    Until then, GO STEELERS! GO TRIBE!