Yeah, see. I don’t understand how a few players that were shipped to Baltimore constitute the Browns. If we kept the TD, name, and colors how are we any different? Players come and go, they don’t make a damn team a franchise. We are and have always been the damn Browns. Players helmets get painted over with new colors ALL THE TIME. They were the Browns, then they moved and became the Ravens. The PLAYERS did, not the whole damn franchise. We aren’t like the Texans. Hell, Cleveland’s original team plays in St. Louis. Yep, we were the Cleveland Rams; which moved to L.A., then St. Louis. Don’t listen to all those other hacks. These sites you’re refering to are Cleveland.com or equivalents. They don’t know what the hell they are talking about and you should try to limit your actual learning knowledge to us.

The Browns are the Browns to me, but I can understand why people would refer to them as “the new Browns”. The-asshole-who-shall-not-be-named didn’t just move a collection of players to a new city, as you put it; he moved a group of players groomed as Browns and an organizational structure (despite the coaching changes) from the Browns franchise to the “new” franchise in Baltimore.

Also, it’s a bit dismissive to just say that the Browns went on hiatus for a few years. When they returned, the NFL did our city no favors in getting the new franchise off the ground. For a better understanding of it, I recommend you read Terry Pluto’s “False Start”.

Personally I think they should rename themselves “Lake Erie Dawgs” to appeal to a bigger fan base, build a highrise team headquarters on the lake, keep the nice old brown jerseys with maybe red instead of orange to signify a change. And lay off the inferences of Browns players as if Browns was a family name. New Browns is right, they´re shopping skill type players from across the nation.

“The new Browns” is just a term of embitterment used by people trying to express frustration with the Browns. It’s largely an expression of the sentiment, “If that ***hole hadn’t screwed us over, we would never have been in such a terrible condition.”

Once the team starts winning, it will be forgotten by all but the most embittered of Clevelanders, and announcers. They’ll never drop that s**t. Because announcers are stupid, uncreative, and need things to say just for the sake of filling air time.

We should never get a logo, but I do wish they’d use Brownie the Elf on some merch more often. He’s badasssss.

uck FArt Modell