I Think I'm The Reincarnation of Art Modell. Shoot Me.

by SpecialBrownie on Nov 9, 2009 1:39 PM EST Comment 16 comments

This made me extremely sad. Now I was born while Art Modell was still alive of course but I just figured out that I was born on his birthday. This hit me extremely hard and I was quite shocked.

Now I'm not one for folk lore or fantasies but does this mean something significant? Do I have the hands to destroy or create a football organization? It just seems very odd that a blogger fan such as myself who is a fan of the organization he destroyed was born on such a large date for Modell himself.

I feel like Frankenstein. What should I think about this?

Note: This is a funny yet shocking fanpost. I'm being completely legitimate in my findings and want to know what everyone thinks of this.

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Do you see me any less of a fan now?

Yes

30 votes

No

19 votes

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Now I was born while Art Modell was still alive

Is this just saying he is dead to you, because he is still very much alive.

by holmes213 on Nov 9, 2009 1:45 PM EST reply actions 3 recs

I had a friend who was born on Hitler’s birthday.

by North Coast Flea on Nov 9, 2009 1:57 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

me too, it’s 4/20. what an awful day historically.

by Dawg Nuts on Nov 9, 2009 2:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Well, since there are something like 5 billion people on the earth, and only 366 possible dates to choose from, it’s pretty inevitable that there’s going to be a lot of overlap. A statistically-minded friend told me that the odds are very strong that any group of 25 people or more will have at least two people who share a birthday. He also explained the statistics behind it, but I can’t say I really followed the whole explanation. He tried this every semester over a 40 year teaching career, and told me that he never had a single occasion when it didn’t work, although he had to use his own birthday twice. In other words, you probably shouldn’t sweat it.

Now, the question of which is worse: sharing a birthday with Modell or with Hitler might be an interesting discussion /sarc/

by drjeo on Nov 9, 2009 2:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

60% of the time, it works every time.

by Dawg Nuts on Nov 9, 2009 3:08 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Yeah, I talk about that every year with my stats class when we discuss simulations and random number tables. If I remember correctly, about 23 people give a 50/50 chance of two people having the same birthday. The best way to prove it statistically is to find the probability that nobody shares the same birthday and subtract that from one.

by Buckeye Brad on Nov 9, 2009 5:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

meant i have a friend who was, not that i was. and i guess it isn’t that big of a deal. let’s just agree that art modell<hitler

by Dawg Nuts on Nov 9, 2009 3:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Hmm.

by SpecialBrownie on Nov 9, 2009 3:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

let’s just agree that art modell<hitler

Wrong.

By the way, this is a joke. Please don’t fine me Mr. Goodell.

by Bernie19Kosar on Nov 9, 2009 6:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

it was a joke. he’s not worse than hitler.

by Dawg Nuts on Nov 10, 2009 3:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I love how at least six of you chose yes.

Wow.

by SpecialBrownie on Nov 9, 2009 3:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I see it at 10-4

by Roger Dorn on Nov 9, 2009 4:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I feel like you need a middle option because I wallowed horribly in indecision for about 3/10ths of a second before voting “Yes.” Had there been an ambiguous response available like, “Maybe, but I don’t want to judge you based on an unfortunate temporal coincidence” I probably would’ve gone with that.

Seriously though, you might want to consider buying the Steelers, then single-handedly ruin their entire franchise by moving it to Montreal and renaming them the Expos.

by Off-the-Chain on Nov 9, 2009 4:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Almost a reliable sample, here. Looks like you might be Modell reincarnate.

by Roger Dorn on Nov 9, 2009 7:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

If you have run a profitable football organization into the ground

and then turned on the very fans and city that provided your income for a very comfortable lifestyle to ultimatley flee like a carpetbagger/pimp for greener pastures, well then yes, I do think less of you as a fan.

If you havent, no sweat.

So I told her," I'll be nicer if you try to be smarter!'..That was a mistake.

by Juannieboy on Nov 13, 2009 8:48 AM EST reply actions 0 recs