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Mike Polk Kills With His Browns Reaction Video

November 7, 2011 by 26 Comments

This video was good enough that we’re giving it a slot today. Watch. Laugh. Cry. React. Enjoy.

Ryan Pontbriand is the perfect comedic choice for a custom Cleveland Browns jersey.

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  • Grif_E

    If he could have pulled off talking to the stadium more and looked less like I do when I’m agitated and pacing around the house this would have been truly epic. Alternatively maybe I need to start recording my agitated rants and posting them to Youtube… hmmm.

  • Du

    This made my day.

    “I’ll see ya Sunday.” Classic. Truth.

  • SlawDiesel

    Amazing. Simply fantastic and beautifully poetic. Thank you Michael.

  • Chris

    Do you think we can seek legal recourse to trade for the Baltimore Browns? After all, they’re our real team.

  • BuckeyeDawg

    I’ve watched it 3 times now, and I still laugh when he says “I’ll see you Sunday” at the end.

    “It’s like they’re playing a different sport than you are!” Amen.

  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com/ Rick

    You are a factory of sadness.

    It may be Mike Polk, but when he says that all I hear is Will Farrell.

  • Mark

    It is just about perfect. Better to laugh than to cry.

  • Harv 21

    Oh. my.

    Forget all the guys who supposedly “get it” – Randy, Joe Thomas, Cribbs, Hilliis, the most recently sainted Haden. He gets me, a freakin bullseye to the forehead of my sports psyche.

    Countless times I walk or drive by that huge fortress and think the same thing: this expensive taxpayer-funded edifice for handful of awful games each year? Henceforth: Factory of Sadness.

    Perfect. No sequels, Mike, this is your master work.

  • RyInCBus

    Loved this as soon as I saw it this morning. Already posted it to my Facebook and showed it to several colleagues at work. Solid Gold. Go Browns!

  • Chris

    Can someone run the numbers?

    I’d love to know if it is actually statistically more challenging to be as bad as the browns for as long as the browns then to accidently have a good record.

  • Chris

    That made my day…watching made me feel like that guy was in my head. True out of body experience. Someone please forward to Holmgren

  • TobaccoRoad

    Love it. The best part is “I’ll see you Sundsy.” That’s my life as a battered wife aka a Cleveland Browns fan; no matter how bad my team treats me, I’m always right back every Sunday.

  • Ghost To Most

    Cant wait for those “Factory of Sadness” t shirts to hit the market.

  • ben

    It’s been said, but Factory of Sadness is an A-M-A-Z-I-N-G line.

  • Matt

    @Chris #10

    According to NFL.com over the last 10 years, the mean number of wins is 79.69 with a standard deviation of 17.35 and the Browns with 59 wins over that span. That puts us in the bottom 15.8% statistically.

    Of couse with only 32 teams that doesn’t tell the whole story, since only Oakland (58), Detroit (39), and Houston (55) have fewer wins than us over 10 years. Although, Houston didn’t enter the league until 2002.

    That puts us at roughly 12.5% (4th last out of 32) or even 9.375% (3rd last out of 32) if we take off our 7 wins from the 2001 season to accurately judge against Houston, who is then better. (Note: Oakland would lose their 10 wins from that season, so we’d still be ahead of them.)

    So yes, we are just consistently awful to a statistically significant degree.

  • Hetz

    This New Browns franchise has been the perfect torture device for Clevelanders. They look like the Old Browns and thus elicit the loyal love engendered by a half century of tradition, but in reality have been a cruel facsimile. Occasional flashes of brilliance, two winning seasons since 1999, make the spirits of the fanbase soar, only to crash back to earth with the reality of another 5-11 season.

    It’s nauseating to hear NFL broadcasters go on and on about the awe inspiring rivalry between the Steelers and Ravens, particularly because it actually is awe inspiring. That’s supposed to a Cleveland – Pittsburgh thing. But the truth is that the current Browns are nobody’s rival, other than perhaps the rotating teams vying for a top 5 draft pick each year.

    I really think at some point the franchise should have tried to get a front office or coaching staff with more of a connection to the town and the original Browns. We have had some decent football people, but no one that really gets what this team means to Cleveland.

    But, there is no getting around this situation for me. I am a third generation Browns fan who will, like Mike Polk, be back hoping for a Browns win next Sunday, and of course waiting for next year.

  • Allen

    As someone who was thoroughly UNamused by his infamous ‘Cleveland Tourism’ video, I’m looking forward to giving Mr. Polk another chance at the funny (I can’t watch it at work, so it’ll have to wait for this evening).

  • Grif_E

    @17

    Ewwww, it’s that guy… he can go DIAF I don’t care how amusing he is going forward.

  • humboldt

    @Matt – nice run on the numbers!

    I’m actually surprised that the standard deviation is so high, but I guess it still is suggestive of parity in the league, just with lots of outlier teams that have dominated the decade (Steelers, Ravens, Patriots, etc) and lots of chronically inept teams (Browns, Raiders, Bengals, Lions, etc).

  • RyInCBus

    @16 After reading your post, I think I’d be much happier if we didn’t have the name and colors back. This new “Browns” team has tarnished whatever goodwill was left from the old team. I wish it all would’ve died with the move and this was some other exapansion team. Like voting Hillis to the Madden cover, we fans fought for something we believed in and look what we got in return? The change worked in Baltimore and Houston. At least, the name “The Browns” would still have some reverance here in the city of Cleveland. Now, it’s just a punchline. Sad.

  • http://www.60bpm.com/ Robbie

    Would be funnier if the guy used a wind screen of some sort.

  • Matt

    Regarding the standard deviation and league parity, it basically means that 65% of teams in the league are separated by ~35 games over the course of a decade, or 3.5 games per season.

    That sounds like parity to me, 2/3 of teams are separated by 3.5 games each year.

    And then there’s us.

  • REEPJP

    Mike Polk looks like the birth child of Jim Thome and Craig Krenzel

  • Return of the (Alex) Mack

    sign me up for a sadness factory shirt

  • http://theshintrap.blogspot.com JJ in DC

    There’s a reason why I refer to Browns football as “Therapy Sundays”, and Polk nailed it.

  • James

    Funniest thing to me – the Pontbriand jersey

    Hands down the most productive Butch Davis draft pick