A northeast Ohio restaurant owner announced yesterday in an open letter to Jimmy and Dee Haslam that he’s taking a stance against the Cleveland Browns’ abysmal record by refusing to broadcast any more games this season at his Mayfield Heights restaurant. Darryl Margolis from Play Arcade and Kitchen said he will also put an end to all his “game day” specials, and will prohibit his staff from wearing any Browns-related apparel in attempts to prompt a turnaround from the Haslams, Mike Pettine, or really anyone who can make it happen. It’s certainly an interesting tactic. Read the full letter below:
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This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2015.
Roger Goodell orchestrated the shotgun wedding between Jimmy Haslam and the Cleveland Browns…and the commissioner can right his wrong by finding an ownership group willing to “buy” the Tennessee Titans, which sets into motion a tax-free swap of franchise ownership with Haslam….just like the Carroll Rosenbloom-Robert Irsay deal in the early 1970s with the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams . Haslam is the local yokel Titans fans will celebrate after years of criticizing absentee ownership — and the Browns desperately need a new beginning….since the organization – again – has all the appearances of an expansion franchise.
God HATES the Browns…..
Browns are The Jerry Springer Show of The NFL!!
There’s no reason to believe Haslam is capable of installing quality people in the Browns organization. After all, he filled his truck stop company with a bunch of snakes and crooks of the lowest order.
The browns need a coach with some fire under his ass as well as offense and defense coaches with fire that are not just out there for check but to win also the owner needs to clean house look at the bills since he left and brought some of his guys to Cleveland the bills are playing better then us I will not watch or buy any browns gear until they start winning farmer must go to my little league team I coach in Lorain the pioneers have won back to back championship going for a 3rd year it’s good coaching the coaches had fire under there ass
Calm down people. Don’t forget that we are lucky to have our football team back. What other city retrieved their team after it was stolen away? We had a long run of bad ownership and disastrous drafting under that ownership. We have a new owner who is a good businessman and a good person. He is also a new owner and there is a learning curve. Ever started a new business? it takes a little while to figure it out. We would have had a different season this year EVEN IF the last two drafts were A) Run by any serious Browns fan/draftnik. orB) We just took whoever was the next best player on Mel Kiper’s list. It is unfortunate that Jimmy Haslem turned to Ray Farmer in despair after Mike Lombardi’s disastrous draft. It seemed like the right move at the time. The draft was coming soon and Ray was in-house. Unfortunately he is in WAY over his head and proved it with his drafts and free agents. I’m hoping that the first move is finding a GM with some ability…..but really, it won’t be too hard to fix this problem. Ray Farmer goes and then a new GM can decide the fate of Pettine…..although I’m pretty sure O’Neill the DC must leave as well. Franchises do turn around so just concentrate on the proper steps to be taken and don’t turn against the team itself because we could actually lose them.
I am not a Browns fan but that does not mean I cannot respect the organization and the fans. More NFL football fans are pulling and hoping for the best in Cleveland than the Brown’s fans realize (Something about too far in the forest to see the trees…). The very last thing any fan wants to see promoted is; Winning, Quitting, losing. In that order.
So, Circaman, let’s just throw this out there: I would welcome the Browns leaving town once again, just so we can disavow these past 16 years and pretend that none of this ever happened. The team that we got back is not the Browns, it’s just a joke wearing our colors. And it’s sad. So please don’t threaten me with “oh noes, the team light leave, lolz@@@~!” because that would actually be for the best. We’ve proven ourselves as fans, we sell out every fucking game no matter the shit they put out there on the field, even after 16 years of failures, trainwrecks, and dumpster fires. If they leave town, you can bet your ass we’ll get another expansion team, because our market is a good one that has insane fan support. So please, here’s my blessing for this circus to leave town so we can start fresh. Go.