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June 15, 2012The Browns have championships, but they all pre-date the Super Bowl. The Browns have never appeared in a Super Bowl let alone win one. Now, if you place any hope in the opinion of retired pass rushers turned analysts, there might be hope for the Browns. Warren Sapp says the Browns are next.1
“They have a quarterback now, they have a running back — in (Trent) Richardson and (they have Brandon) Weeden — this is what you need to jump-start your franchise,” Sapp said on Wednesday’s episode of NFL Network’s “NFL Total Access”. “There’s no more fumbling on the 1-yard line, there’s no more ‘Drive’ for you to cry over. … It’s the Cleveland Browns. They’ll be next.”
Of course in the 24-hour NFL news cycle that has developed over the years, there’s no shortage of opinions on topics that are fabricated. (And here we are commenting on the fabricated topic, so do with that what you will.) Point being that with so much need for constant opinion, there’s not a lot of weight behind a lot of it. It’s a lot of guessing without any kind of follow up or anyone holding anyone to their opinions.
Still, it is fun to think that maybe the Browns might have finally landed the draft that will erase all the demons of the past.
[Related: Jim Brown says Mike Holmgren’s Comments “Shows Class”]
- H/T to Glenn Moore at Cleveland.com who was all over this yesterday afternoon. [↩]
35 Comments
Sapp loves the Browns. He has been talking us up all offseason before and after the draft (including the fans).
That said, it sort of irks me that we even get mentioned in these discussions as if the NFL championships we have won don’t count. Yeah, a long time ago, but so was Bart Starr.
Like David Brinkley said, “Everyone’s entitled to my opinion.”
It has always been a “what have you done for me lately” crowd, mg. Most of the posters here (myself included) weren’t even born when the Browns won last time.
Puff and pass, puff and pass!!! The Kool-Aid/brownie bar is now open.
Is there another NFL team named “Browns” that looks poised to make a playoff run and win a superbowl? Why has no one told me about this team!? I feel like I’ve been missing out.
Fine, then the steelers no longer get to count the four SB from the 70’s.
If the 50’s and 60’s don’t count any more then there has to be a point where the 70’s don’t either.
They are ahead of us 2 SBs to 0. Let’s go get them.
I think the good news about competing in the brutal AFC North is that when the Browns finally do make the playoffs, they will have a very good chance of winning it all.
Not so much recently for the teams from the AFC and NFC West (San Fran is legit now).
I wasn’t born for the Browns last championship in ’64, but I wasn’t born for the first SB in ’65 either.
I think it’s silly that because the media dubbed a name for the same exact game one year later that we don’t get credit.
I’ll drink to that.
I don’t think Sapp is saying it’s going to happen “this year”
It might be an indication he isn’t buying the Lions/Texans/Panthers craze as much as his colleagues as much as him buying the Browns “eventually”
I wouldn’t say we didn’t get credit, its just that its not a Super Bowl. And, it has now been 48 years since that happened. So, you get as much credit as something that happened 48 years ago that wasn’t called a Super Bowl.
I get what you’re saying but its been a hella-long time.
You say this because if the Browns make the playoffs the “tougher” teams will be out of it already? Or do you mean something else? I’m curious.
I read it as they have the toughest division to go through, therefore once they do reach the playoffs they may be better prepared to face the rest of the leagues best.
I know right? Has he seen our schedule this year?
Not exactly true… Superbowl one was the first championship game between the NFL and AFL, so really a win the previous year was only against teams in the NFL, not the AFL. But I dig what you are saying… that win certainly should count for something as the best teams at the time were almost certainly in the NFL, not the AFL.
Did someone say “Kool-Aid”? I went on the wagon a few months ago and swore off the stuff, but Warren Sapp must know something, right?
Ah, what the hell, one won’t hurt. Make it a double!
Well, shut it down boys. We did it!
Magic Johnson once said that the Cavs will be the team of the ’90s. He didn’t say which ’90s. 🙂
I like the brownie thing. I think the before you comment section should include a note explaining that if you are going to accuse someone of blindly following one of our franchises front offices you “must be eating the magic brownies”.
The world of sports commenting has absolutely abused and misused “drinking the kool aid” for too long. This once respectable phrase deserves a rest.
Ok, that’s a fair statement. They do play very quality six times per year.
67 was the first sb
what do you say mgbode? can we throw the parade for this one now to?
cant take them away ,they are history just like last years superbowl winner….
You got it double it is!!! Warren Sapp knew Jeremy Shockey was the one that sold out the Saints in the bounty thing OR did he?
I can’t let the Kool-Aid die sorry!
if Jim Jones’s followers had eaten laced brownies we’d be trapped in a metaphorical no-option zone, I guess. Shrooms? E? No, kool-aid has that happy face, we most definitely need it. I vote with the shammie.
Heeeeey, play it again, Sham. Yup, old buddy, old pal, I think I’ll haf me jush onnnnne more teeny weeny shot of that Kool (hic) Aid if you don mind.
We got that runnin back Robertshon an that korterback Weebledon an a new right tackle guy an things are lookin up.
Thanksh. Leave the pitcher.
Whensh train camp open? Here we go, Browneesh, here we go . . .
Warren Sapp can be the MC.
PARADE!
If it hadn’t been for another guy with the initials “MJ” they very well might have been…
Play it again Sham I like it! But one more then you are officially cut off for the day I don’t want Mrs. Cleveland looking for me.
Yep, basically I’m saying if you win your division with a 9-7 record playing 3 bad teams twice, your probably not all that good and won’t win playoff games.
When the browns get to the playoffs, they will probably have won 10 games or more with several quality wins in there.
I prefer to see it as we have 8 championships, they have 6. They’re trying to catch us.
SF used to win a much worse NFC West every year and won a lot of SBs in that period.
Of all the Kool-Aid joints in all the towns in all the league, Sapp had to walk into ours. Well if he can believe it, so can I. Pour it again, Sham.
warren should go easy on ‘the pipe’