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24 Jan 2013

Art Modell does not belong in the Pro Football Hall of Fame

On Feb. 2, the 46-member selection committee for the Pro Football Hall of Fame will meet to vote on this year’s class of inductees.

And there is a chance that the unthinkable may happen when the group gets together in New Orleans – they may actually vote Art Modell into the Hall of Fame.

According to the hall’s website, the selection committee is “charged with the vital task of continuing to be sure that new enshrinees are the finest the game has produced.”

In no way does that describe Modell and, if the selection committee ignores how he stole the Browns from Cleveland and votes him in, the Hall of Fame would be better off shutting its doors forever.

To learn more about Modell’s sham candidacy for the hall, head over to The Cleveland Fan.

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21 Jan 2013

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Actions don’t speak louder than words on Mike Lombardi

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. – William Shakespeare

Three days later and we’re still trying to wrap our brains around the fact that Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam signed off on a deal to bring Mike Lombardi back to Cleveland.

Plenty of people are talking about the decision – not surprising since Lombardi has not actually worked in the NFL since 2007 – and we have to wonder just what it is that 99 percent of the NFL missed on Lombardi all these years. So many openings, so few job offers.

So let’s take a look at what Lombardi’s biggest supporters have been saying.

Read more…

Posted in Cleveland Browns, Jimmy Haslam, Joe Banner, Mike Lombardi and tagged Cleveland Browns, Mike Lombardi

19 Jan 2013

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Browns can’t stand good times, hire Mike Lombardi

A new regime and a new era in Cleveland Browns football.

That’s what fans were promised when Jimmy Haslam bought the team from Randy Lerner, cleaned out team president Mike Holmgren, general manager Tom Heckert and coach Pat Shurmur and installed Joe Banner as CEO.

But in so many ways, it’s still business as usual in Berea with Friday’s announcement that the Browns had hired Mike Lombardi to serve as vice president of player personnel.

Posted in Cleveland Browns, Cleveland sports, Jimmy Haslam and tagged Cleveland Browns, Jimmy Haslam, Mike Lombardi

17 Jan 2013

The Browns need to worry about the Browns

The Philadelphia Eagles hired Oregon coach Chip Kelly on Wednesday, surprising, well, pretty much everyone.

The hiring’s impact rippled all the way to Cleveland, where Browns fans were as bipolar as always with reactions ranging from betrayal that Kelly chose the Eagles over the hometown Browns, to anger at Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and CEO Joe Banner for not being able to “seal the deal” with the skittish Kelly.

The reality, however, is that the Kelly hiring should have absolutely no impact on the Browns – just because the Eagles sneezed doesn’t mean the Browns have to catch the flu.

To find out what this all means, visit The Cleveland Fan.

(Photo by Getty Images)

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15 Jan 2013

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Of all the things to get worked up about …

… the renaming of Cleveland Browns Stadium to FirstEnergy Stadium, Home of the Cleveland Browns, is currently near the bottom of the list.

The Browns made it official on Tuesday, selling the naming rights to their home field to the Akron-based energy company.

Posted in Cleveland Browns and tagged Cleveland Browns, First Energy, Jimmy Haslam

12 Jan 2013

Rob Chudzinski and the importance of being patient

No one knows if this is going to work.

It is going to take time to find out.

Those were the two biggest (and most important) takeaways from Friday’s press conference to introduce Rob Chudzinski as the 14th coach (and sixth since 1999) of the Cleveland Browns.

No one knows how this is all going to turn out. It is just as likely that Chudzinski will be the next Chris Palmer as it is that he will be the next Andy Reid.

But there is one thing we do know – he deserves a chance to find out.

The rest of the story is available at The Cleveland Fan.

(Photo by ClevelandBrowns.com)

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10 Jan 2013

Welcome to Coaching Depot. How may we help you?

Hello Mr. Haslam and Mr. Banner and welcome to Coaching Depot. How may we help you?

Oh, you’re looking to decorate your recent purchase with a shiny new head coach? Let’s see what we can find for you. (Too bad you were not here a few months ago; we could have offered you a special two-for-one deal with a Mr. Dolan).

Let’s take a look at what we have at The Cleveland Fan.

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07 Jan 2013

Geography should not drive the Browns coaching search

One of the downsides to the Cleveland Browns missing on (or passing on, depending on your perspective) hiring Chip Kelly as their next coach is the rumor mill has cranked up again over who the team will eventually hire.

While the Browns may be looking at Lovie Smith, Ken Whisenhunt and Ray Horton, among others, the same tired names are once again being thrown out there: Bill Cowher (not happening) and Jon Gruden (holy crap, no), with some starting their annual bleating for Jim Tressel (holy crap, no, times two).

The main thing that bugs about Gruden and Tressel in particular, and Josh McDaniels before he said he was staying in New England, despite them not being good NFL coaches (or in Tressel’s case an NFL coach in any way), is one of geography.

Namely, the Browns shouldn’t look to hire a coach simply because they grew up in Ohio. Simply put, it’s not what real NFL teams do.

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06 Jan 2013

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Haslam learning some hard truths about the NFL

A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
We’ll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place
You and I, face to face

After what reportedly turned into a lost weekend in Arizona, it looks like Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam is learning some hard truths about the NFL, mainly that a fat wallet is no guarantee of success and that this whole ownership thing may be harder than it looks.

And Browns fans, once again, are left to wonder why, exactly, it is going to be different this time.

Posted in Cleveland Browns and tagged Chip Kelly, Cleveland Browns, Jimmy Haslam

05 Jan 2013

Cleveland sports in 2012 – Fourth Quarter

So 2012 has come and gone without another championship from any of Cleveland’s teams.

While there were no titles to celebrate, there were still plenty of stories, from firings to trades, to too many losses and too few wins.

Our annual review of the year in Cleveland sports concludes with the fourth quarter of the year- from a historic run by Kent State’s football team, to the end of another disappointing Browns season and the start of a rebuild by the Cleveland Indians – and everything else that makes Cleveland sports such a joy to follow.

Full story at The Cleveland Fan. (In case you missed the First Quarter, click here. Second Quarter can be found here. Third Quarter? Right here).

Posted in Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Indians, Kent State and tagged Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Indians, Kent State | Leave a comment

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