Just finished it. It answers a lot of the questions/ideas we’ve had recently regarding playing in London and uniform changes.

Great article. I feel a lot better about him now than I have in the past.

Also, happy to hear this:

He says he’s taking the “AL” uniform tribute to his dad off the jerseys after next season. “It will have been ten years.”

I think that time has come.

Thanks for posting, a very interesting man and I’m glad he’s the Browns owner.

This had come up in conversation in another thread. It turns out I was correct in what I thought I’d heard.

Lerner announced over the summer that he would be making a permanent home in the land of his birth. His son Max had enrolled at St. Ignatius High School, so Lerner set up shop on the West Side for full-time Dad duty.

Article was really well done.

That was a great article. Always liked Randy and I like him more. Never knew he took in so much from us Browns fans. Article definitely makes me feel like he cares.

The classiest part of the whole thing is, that he believes its an HONOR to be able to be the “Caretaker” of this very proud organization. The Holmgren hire, whenit happened made total sense to me. I knew nothing about Heckert at the time, though now I do. Whatever these guys do, we can believe they want to win. BTW, didn’t AV just kick the crap out of Arsenal? Yes, I watch the English soccer League, I have for many years.

It would be awesome if we could get Randy to do an interview for the DBN site….

Good read.

Lerner, in those few interviews he’s done over the years, mentions the position often, emphasizing his belief that the quarterback is the keystone of a football team — a role that, unless settled, derails any chances of winning.

Maybe a clue as to our pick this year….

“It’s an intangible but worthwhile thing you do over there,” he says. “Just talking to them. Letting them know you care. Distracting them from whatever hell they’re going through. I really like going over there,” he says. “You get a better sense of what matters and what doesn’t.”

Lots of respect for the man on his support of our troops.

“They said when they started it was a three-to-five-year plan,” Lerner says. “Mike said, ’Here’s how long it’s going to take to do this right,’ and I said OK.”

I sincerely hope that those people who keep griping about wanting to win now and calling for heads to roll read this part…twice.

Amazing how much this one article blows so many years of assumptions by many right out of the water.
I know I certainly feel a whole lot better about our “Absentee Owner” after reading this.

I also love the fact that a rag like the Scene scores this kind of interview while Grossi is over at the P.D. squirming in his seat and losing his H.O.F. vote. What a kick in the ’nads it must be to read this after covering the team for 27 years and never getting this kind of access.

He has opinions, sure, and he bounces them off his staff, sometimes to deaf ears in past years. (Browns fans: Would you have preferred Drew Brees over Derek Anderson?)

This made me sad to read. I’m pretty sure it’s meant to imply Lerner wanted Brees.

i know a single article won’t change the minds of the truly committed, but that piece just reinforces my belief that anyone who thinks the problem with the cleveland browns is the owner is completely nuts.

In related news… I WANT TO SEE THAT WHITE HELMET.