I watching the first quarter of the first playoff game.
I voted very good but this season was excellent upon further review.
We’ve been eating shit from the Steelers for fifty years. The once-proud Browns franchise had been to the NFL Championship game 11 times in our first 20 years in the NFL PLUS four straight championships in the AAFC before then including a perfect season. I don’t care if the NFL doesn’t count the AAFC - frankly the Browns in those years had the best attendance, the best coach, the best team and the best QB ever (perfect 10 of 10 years Otto went the the Championship game, winning 7, plus Graham was on a champion pro BB team). When we entered the NFL we crushed the two-time defending NFL champion Eagles on opening night, and my man Lou the Toe kicked the winning points in the 1950 Championship to beat the Rams (who also won a championship in Cleveland).
Our heritage has been DENIED because nobody counts the pre Super Bowl years (as if Jim Brown doesn’t matter). Meanwhile the upstart Yinzers, who sucked for close to forty years, got good when we went downhill in the seventies. We’ve had the hear this “little brother” shit all this time - Yinzers, we STILL have more championships than you do and we won ours before you did anything.
Then that asshole Modell rips our Browns out of Cleveland. We’ve struggled to recover since 1995. After two and a half decades of frustration, pain and sadness we assemble talent and a really good young coach - but so many things went wrong and we were struggling to make the playoffs. We finally made it - although Pittsburgh wanted us because they thought we’d be an easy out.
Then we lose a bunch of players and coaches to COVID, including Stefanski. No training camp for a rookie head coach and no first playoff game for him either. We appeared to be doomed going into a city where we’ve lost 17 straight (we also had a similar streak at Three Rivers).
Then we proceeded to wreck Heinz Field, go up 28-0, humiliate them, beat them, intercept that asshole four times, shock the entire football world, and make Ben cry. In fact the Steelers and their idiot fans are still bawling. They never expected the Browns to come in to their city and their house and whip them senseless (not that they weren’t 87% there already).
That team was 11-0 and we crushed their high hopes and high expectations completely. As bad as the past 20 years have been and as many disappointments as we’ve had in the past 50 years did we EVER have a season where we started so well and just crashed and burned like that? Have we EVER had a moment in Browns history when we’ve come from so far down to triumph over those black and gold fucks?
I don’t care if we go 19-0 next season and win every game by 21. The way we overcame all odds to utterly destroy Pittsburgh after their 11-0 start was glorious.
I do want to be fair though and magnanimous in victory. I saw that Bills Mafia are making donations to Lamar’s favorite charity. Class move that Browns fans should emulate. I’m thinking about donating to a sexual assault victims charity in Pittsburgh in dishonor of you know who.
I hate the Steelers. We got some serious payback.
Great season!