Remember this one? We used this before predicting the 2010 Browns record.
The Cleveland Browns rattled off four wins to end a tumultuous 2009 season. Prior to the four wins the Browns only other win was one of the least entertaining football games I’ve ever watched in my NFL-watching history as the Browns beat the Bills 6-3 in some ridiculous wind. Still, the Browns seemed headed in the right direction as they beat the Steelers, Chiefs, Raiders and Jaguars by pounding the ball and riding Jerome Harrison and Josh Cribbs. Mangini kept his job and when the schedule for 2010 came out, Browns fans started counting up wins and losses. Surely the Browns would be able to handle an easy early schedule featuring the Buccaneers who went 3-13 in 2009 and Chiefs who went 4-14.
The Browns came out and dropped both of those first two games by five total points and all of a sudden even the most modest of expectations for the Browns were dashed completely and totally. You can call WFNY a homer site if you want because most of our writers took the over when the line came out at 5.5. At the same time, to a man, our expectations of over were all for 6 wins. That’s not important though. What’s important is that the Browns lost two of the games that many (including many at this site) had counted up as Ws prior to the season. [Read more...]
It’s a slow sports week but as training camp opens and college summer camps begin, groups of buddies all around the country begin to plan their fall trips to see their favorite teams at opponent’s stadiums across the land. I have been to a number of Browns away games with a group of friends and there is nothing like going into enemy territory and seeing a new stadium while sticking out in the crowd in your orange and brown. Recently, it is rare to see a Browns win at these away games but we continually try to pick out one game a year for which we can leave town and if the Browns win it is extra gravy. While the Browns are the impetus for such trips, there is still nothing that compares to seeing a new college stadium and campus on a fall Saturday. The pageantry is incomparable to visiting an away NFL stadium. If you can manage to see a college game in the area on a Saturday and then seek out the hair of the dog that bit you Sunday morning to get to the Browns game, it makes for a truly memorable weekend. There seem to be less options than normal with the Browns 8 away games this year but one still has to take a look at all the trip possibilities. I would say there are about five legitimate weekends a group could attempt with one obvious weekend that takes the cake.
