A Cleveland brouhaha erupted Thursday over whether state tax money would be used to build a facility if the Browns move training camp to Columbus.
While that simmered, the Browns announced they would hold their 2016 camp at the team facility in Berea, Ohio.
The mini-controversy started with a Cleveland Plain Dealer story stating that the Browns and business leaders in Columbus had asked Ohio taxpayers to spend $5 million to build a facility that would move the team's training camp for at least the next 10 years.
Longtime Plain Dealer editorial columnist Brent Larkin, now retired and a freelance writer, wrote the request for money was "worded in an underhanded way designed not to attract attention.