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I'm still blown away that you think human beings who cheer for a team that's located in one state are somehow vastly different in intelligence or have more or less valid reactions than fans who cheer for teams that are located in other states.
All fans are stupid. Being a fan in itself is stupid.
With all that said, you'd have to be a complete moron to think Johnny should play a single second the rest of the year.
Can't wait til he's cut and Farmer is fired.
Perhaps I'm about to go on a tangent over semantics, but I'm proceeding anyway.
There is a very important distinction between a "stupid fan" and a "dedicated fan". Not all dedicated fans should be labeled as stupid, and not all stupid fans deserve to be categorized as dedicated.
I believe Cleveland Browns fans have been wildly dedicated since the team came back. You can't question that. Some were stupid, and the ones who blindly bought into the Manziel hype could sure fall into that category. But there are a lot of football fans who know the game, and they are dedicated too.
For example, Golden State practically sold out their crappy arena in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s with an overwhelmingly shitty product taking the court. Sometimes that was because Golden State fans were paying to see the star opponent, but they filled that arena in bad years, and if the product was good, they were loud as hell. I considered them dedicated, not stupid. They knew the game and followed the game. I see the arena culture changing when they move to San Francisco in a new arena and the prices shoot up to astronomical levels. Blue collar Oakland fans are going to get priced out. The product on the court will be very good, but the fans might actually be higher educated, higher in the tax bracket, but less dedicated. In many ways, they will be stupider about basketball than their blue collar counterparts.
I hope the Cleveland Browns fans eventually get their moment I saw Oakland fans get this past summer.