*** Warning: Do not read this article if you haven’t watched HBO’s Hard Knocks Training Camp with the Cleveland Browns – spoilers and show-references included. ***
Why on earth would anyone be a Browns fan?
Why would any sane person actually believe that a football team that’s just gone 1-31 has a legitimate chance to make the playoffs this season?
Why would any human wear orange and brown and be proud of it?
I’ll tell you why I do it.
In 1973, my father got an engineering job in Cleveland and moved my mom, my three sisters and me to the east side suburbs.