Remember when the Cleveland Browns were a joke?
If you’re a bandwagon fan, the answer is NOPE.
But for the rest of us, there’s been some pretty grim years since about, oh, 1973-ish.
You can’t even count the mid to late eighties when the Browns played decently but were John Elway’s playoff beyatch.
Believe it or not, newbie Browns fans, before John Dorsey, Freddie Kitchens, Baker Mayfield, Jarvis Landry, Odell Beckham Jr. and company, the Cleveland Browns were the butt of many an NFL joke.
Bullied like a bespectacled 98-pounder, the old Browns couldn’t draft well or win many games or inspire confidence in their fans so a cornucopia of cruel jokes and then Tweets began to circulate because lord knows Cleveland wasn’t already feeling bad enough about itself without them.