At Sims Park in Euclid, OH

While many of you have been poring over the Browns’ depth charts and debating how worried we should be by these crappy preseason performances, I’ve been studiously avoiding any and all talk of Browns football ¹ .

I say that in jest, but it is mostly true. The Great Colt McCoy debate of 2012 has kept me away from Cleveland sports talk radio and my work schedule has kept me from watching all four Browns preseason games (and I refuse to DVR a exhibition game to watch later).

I’m also at the “prove to me why I should care on days other Sundays” stage with this franchise. Over the last decade, I’ve bought into various Browns rebuilds and new quarterbacks, only to see the whole thing go up in flames. ² . I want Browns to do well, but I’ll get excited when they give me a reason to get excited. ³ . Plus, I’m one of those weirdos who gets excited for football season because it means that basketball season is just around the corner.

So if not the Browns, how have I been occupying my waning days of summer?

By playing as much disc golf as my schedule can possibly allow.

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1. except, course, our awesome WFNY posts [back]
2. It says something about this franchise that the two most iconic new Browns are Phil Dawson and Joshua Cribbs [back]
3. It’s not that I’m super down on Trent Richardson’s surgery or Weedon’s struggles or various preseason issues. From all accounts it was a minor procedure and how much can you really take away from preseason games. I get that. But still… I’d just rather their top pick NOT have to have knee surgery or that they weren’t getting punts blocked, etc [back]