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October 9, 2014Inside-Out: Cleveland Browns’ two lines are polar opposites
October 10, 2014
It’s Friday and that’s my time with the WWW. It’s Steeler week in Cleveland, so that’s what I wanted to talk about most. Thanks for reading this week. Make sure you check out our podcasts as well.
Is this finally the moment where the Browns hold up their end of the rivalry with the Steelers?
We’ve talked and wondered and tried to enjoy some individual moments of glory thanks to Josh Cribbs, but the Browns haven’t done hardly anything against the Steelers in years. To think that the Browns even have their one playoff loss since 1999 against the Steelers is just downright depressing.
As it stands right this minute, the Browns are one out of their last five against Pittsburgh. They are two of their last ten. The Steelers are 3-2 right now and the Browns have a chance to be over 0.500 with a win on Sunday. Even rivalry types of things aside, it just makes sense that the Browns need to beat up a division opponent. It would mean so much more than that though.
For Browns fans, Steelers games have been extra torturous in Cleveland over the years as Steeler fans invade the city. There might not be anything worse than a visiting football fan in the NFL, but when they’re as brash and full of pride as Steelers fans, it’s extra nauseating. You know the kind of fan that not only cheers for their team, but loves to turn around and look for opposing fans to make eye contact with? That’s the way visiting fans get to act in Cleveland as they’re usually watching their team lead on the scoreboard. When it’s the Steelers, it’s especially the worst.
I was at the last game the Browns beat the Steelers at home, and that’s what rivalry games are all about. I get that these young guys on the field from all over the country don’t understand and can’t understand all that it means to us in the stands, but it means a lot.
I didn’t beat anyone up, obviously. I didn’t even say anything taunting or negative to anyone as we were all walking out, but I took special enjoyment watching those Steelers fans walking back to their cars simply holding their terrible towels. The normally boisterous group had an extra hop in their step as they rushed to their cars instead of their usual, more casual, cocky stride after watching a Pittsburgh victory in Cleveland.
The Browns are good enough to beat the Steelers this week. They’re good enough to send a message by imposing their will with the running game. Ben Tate has the right kind of style and swagger and ability to do to the Steelers what Jerome Bettis did to Browns fans for years and years. It could be our time as Browns fans in this rivalry. It really could be this time.
Mark Cuban on low ticket prices for Mavs fans
The future of sports is on television, and it seems like it will continually lower the prices of tickets for people who actually want to go to games. Seems like a win-win. Check out Mark Cuban’s thoughts on it for the Mavs….
Cuban says the Mavericks have lowered ticket prices to try to make their games more affordable for all their fans, but the Cowboys have a harder time doing that because the Cowboys’ stadium cost so much.
“I don’t do it to try to make a killing [financially],” Cuban said. “I do it because I feel like we’re property of North Texas and Mavs fans everywhere. Not every seat is going to be affordable, but I want as many of the seats as possible to be affordable, so I just took a different approach. But I don’t have a $1.2 billion building.”
Your weekly moment of soccer zen is a knuckleball…
Still hooked on Mansions…
Whenever I’ve got a lot going on in my life I tend to lean on really comfortable, familiar music. It’s no surprise that I’m straight back into one of my favorite things from the end of 2013. The surprise is that after all that time and after thinking I’d identified my favorite songs from the album, a new one emerged thanks to my two-year-old and four-year-old.
We were driving to daycare a few mornings and I played “100 Degrees” for the first time in a long time. It’s the second last song on the album and I honestly hadn’t caught it fully when I listened to it when the album first came out. But when I played it in the car one day, my two-year-old enthusiastically screamed “AGAIN!” after it finished and now we’ve been playing it every morning for a couple of weeks. Ben likes to sing along, but I don’t think my four-year-old has caught onto the one curse word in the tune, so I’ve got that going for me.
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That free kick doesn’t look like much until you see it from behind the goal. Damn. A knuckles that Tim Wakefield would be proud of.
And one win wouldn’t suddenly make things a true rivalry again, but it’d be a start. Football is better when Browns and yinzers is an actual competition.
and, it’s needed for the playoff tiebreaker. going 0-3 in the division would truly hurt our chances when every single team is .500 or better right now (so they are all our competition for a WC spot).
if I were Pettine, then I’d be showing that 1st half against Pitt and the 1st half against Tenn on Saturday night. make sure that they are sick to their stomachs about how they started that game and make sure they know it cannot happen this week.
Craig,
I am guessing you already know, but there is a serious lag-time between the articles being posted and available on the feed versus being visible on the main page. Yesterdays WWW is still on the main page and none of today’s articles are showing up unless I go to the feed (or October postings).
We start winning, the rivalry will be back. Right now, a loss to CLE for Stooler fans will be embarrassing for them. They always count our games as Ws on the schedule. We have only been favored 3 times in the last 20 years.
Not a huge fan of the new layout. Harder to find stuff and read titles on main page.
It isn’t a minor lag, either. I’m to the point where I come to the site via Twitter or Facebook directly to a new article rather than come in and look around.
yeah, I go through the feed, but same idea. I just think that it’s hurting the visibility of some rather good articles as some could come to the main page and not even see them.
me neither. thats why i go to https://waitingfornextyear.com/2014/10
everything in order its published. clean and simple.
One game can’t turn this back into a rivalry but it would be nice to finally get a win especially after the first match-up.
Completely agree. Confusing.
The answer to your question is “no”. For the Browns to be in the equation for a rivalry, would mean the Browns would have to win some games. By that I mean more than a 1-18 record for the past ten years and have more than one winning season as opposed to 1 in the last 10 years. By winning, I mean more than a 4-12 or 5-11 season.
Not sure why “The Browns are good enough to own the rivalry”. They are a 2-2 team. Let’s not overreact.