“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.” u2015 Robertson Davies
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Spring is here again and the most joyous day on the Cleveland sports calendar is less than two weeks away. Of course, as the years pass it gets harder to see the NFL as anything other than the worst kind of brand exploitation, and this would be true even if the Browns could manage to show up as something other than a historic league-laughingstock. Even for those who find it easier to look past the larger concerns, after the way last season went, and with Haslam’s newest strategy of throwing money at a bunch of Ivy-degreed technocrats who’ve stripped the roster down to expansion-era levels just in time to give the new quarterback a lifetime of Tim Couch PTSD-shakes, there isn’t a whole lot new to feel, think, or say about the orange helmets.