CLEVELAND — As the city of Cleveland celebrated the Cavaliers’ NBA championship back in June, the actual basketball team partied 4,000 km away on the floor of the Oracle Arena in Oakland.
No matter what, winning a championship is special. But doing it in front of the home fans takes it to another level.
The last time this city, one sitting along the southern shore of Lake Erie that about 390,000 people call home, were witness to a title was way back in 1964 when the Browns beat the Johnny Unitas-led Baltimore Colts to claim the NFL championship inside Cleveland Municipal Stadium, two years before the Super Bowl was even invented.